The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-11-07
HUMAN MONSTER
Cut Up Seven of His Wives in
Little Pieces.
THE .CRBZY EMPEROR

THE .CRBZY EMPEROR
OF Annam Envents Some Undre AIMED Q
| ToTtures and Ties Them OF His
Wives Until French Soldiers
Seize tie Palace and
! Stop the Brute.
The strangest corner Of the esrtl
probsbly is far Southeastern Asia
which includes the countries Of Siam
Cambodia and AMMAN. Recently i
was the King OF Cambocia who wa
attracting attention by reason O.
bis wonderful crops Of ballots girls
whcm he spands all his life training
and exhibiting. He took them tx
France, where they gave exhibitions
| Now it is the Emperor OF Annan
who Is exciting the interest OF q large
part of the civilized world. Hi!
claims to notics are less agreeable
than those Of the King Of Cambodia
but more sensational. He has horri
fed the European community in biz
domintcns by torturing and murder
ing seven OF his wives-seven grace
ful, dainty little women Of the type
endeared to Eoglish.speaking people
by Rudyard Kipling, in his poem,
"Oa the Road to Msndalay."
The present Emperor OF AMMAN
bears the name OF Than Thai. he
is only twenty-SeVen years old. He
succeeded to the throne in 1891, upon
the deposition of Horn Nght, who
was accused Of planning 8 wholesale
massacre Of the French residents OF
AMMAN. The country is q protecto
rate Ct Frsncs. Horn Nghi has since
married q French girl, Mile Lalois,
and is kept a prisoner by the French
In Tuuis.
Within the past year Than Thai,
has been sfscted bV the mania OF
cruelty and blocithirstiness which
frequently attacks those who are In
possession Of unlimited power over a
submissive and comparatively ignor.
ant population. It was this mania
that se:zed the later Ecpsrors OF
old Rome and caused them TO hold
fsasts OF blood and rack their minds
to ind new ways OF torturing their
victirs.
The mania has always been especia-
Iy liable TO Affect Oriental rulers be.
cause Of the absolu5s power which
they usually WELD and because Of the
bot climate and their habits Of life.
Even the ordinary Inhabitants Of
Southern Asia, it is we'll known, are
ire equently seized by its Of sanguiDary
madness, in which they blindly seek
to murder every person thsY meet, q
proceeding known as running snuck.
Than Thai gave the first evidence
Ct nariacal fury by shooting down
one OF his venerable unclss, who was
= member Of the Council OF the Royal
Family. This was but preliminary,
which, like the first taste OF blood to
the tiger, excited his passion for
more.
The next day he''sgsembled all his
wives in the throne room, according
to the accounts Of native eye witness
es, which have reached Paris. The
Door little crea lures knelt before him,
as Il he we're a divinity. His eyes were
bloodshot and inhsmed with cruelty.
olspped bis hands and huge, brtual
muscular slaves sprang toward to do
bis bidding. he indicated one OF the
youngest and prettiest OF his wives
and ordered them to Eeizs her. He
derided and cursed her and then the
torture began.
The Emperor himself with his ter
.ible Malay sword cut long strips Of
fash from the wonan's body. The
demon King gloated over every detail
and thrilled With pleasure as he
listened to the victims shrieks. All
the other wives we're compelled to
watch every detail OF the torture iD
order that they might be filed with
terror and suffer even more when
their own turn came, because they
would know what to expec5. The
first wife WIS allowed to bleed slowly
to death.
The next day a new victim was
selected. She was tortured to death
in different way. Every day an
other victim was taken and put tc
death with some variation OF the
torture. In one case the E Emperor
had a woman slowly dtssected, joitt
| by j1int and limb by limb. Another
vas burned with irons. In one IL
stance be began by having the wo
mans nose, sars, hand and feet Gu;
IF.
Oas OF the victims was the Enper'
or's favorite wife. He killed her witr
his own hands and utjacted her tc
peculiarly atrociugs tortures: the de
| tails OF which it would be impossible
to describe. When sac vas st las,
dead, be cut her body to pieces anc
had them served for dinner. He ther
uartook Of them and compelled tbs
remainder of the SiVes to share II
the cannibsl feast.
| Two Of the women we're hung tx
! the ceiling with hooks. Ole wa
buried alive in oil. Two or mor'
we're thrown into the cages OF hungr!
tigers vino devoured them.
The French resident at the EN-
peror's capital had protested vigor
ously when the monarch shot hi
uncle, and after that be had been ez
cluded from the palscs. For thi
reason be did not learn Of the atroci
ties until they had been going on fo
some time.
Then be entered the palace with
force OF soldiers. A hidsous spsctaoi
met him. The E nparor's thron