The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-02-22


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snojec al Tee lltt.r WIS tortured ~ two
meet oa} ~lita hcia Twelve ut them wci
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recom more sensitive 10 pair. Reside
SprhionoyaS tormsutors. workins W.t
Out a respite SOt tirst out, and tNtir
blows could NOT be SO powerful hut ene
girl Rothkopt was ;ortured on four sep
arate lights and the eNecut.oners had l
chance 10 begin eNer5 time With fresh
energy
The third night She was again taken into
the torture room. as she siubbornly refas-
ed TO caIumniIte anybody. Aud she was
beaten as on the previous nights. Then
Green bethought himself Of new WAYS ef
tortlra and o-3ara1 +ba .l.,-a, ,,., ta
surround The PROSTATE girl and beat her
over the abdomen, The blows then rainea
fast, but not very hard on the abdomen
exclusively. This immediately caused her
TO Nomit. The vomiting became very fire.
quent and s~pasmodic. She could not catch
her breath because of The retching She
was so weak that She could not turn her
head, her body ached and burned Ike
fire, the pain was so keen that death
would have been much more welcome And
the vomiting woulu not stop. 1t seemed
to her that all her insid IS was on IRE and
she longed for death.
And The eNecutioners continued beating,
eNhorting her 10 confess.
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On the fourth night she was also beaten
she was weak and faint. IL seemed to hei
mat she was dying. The blows We're raina
ing fast, they pinched her and pulled her
mar suddenly Green ordered his men to
stop. and for a few minutes she was
lett TO lie quietly on the table. Then she
was dragged on the floor and put on her
BACK. Her eNeeutioners climbed on the
baops ~, Tb py54 inr5 5unaplns OF. ner WIN tagir
abdomen: they trampled on her face She
started to bleed from the mouth. she did
not cry out; she had no more strength. she
seemed silently diving
In this condition she was taken back
into her cell and the prison feldeher f,urse
and orderly) was called to her Her face
presented a shameless mass of rcd ana
blue bruises. The eyes we're closed Inv an
enormous swelling. The cheeks cbin ANA
mouth We're n bir bruised mass Tho sto,,
ach anl bowels We're upset. there was CON
stant vomiting. which frustrated treat-
ment. This vomiting greatly arpInonnted
her suffering. Her body was covered Win
red and blue wheals and wounds and
bruises. The wheals were fostering Look
ing at this enormously swollen bod of
this shaDelesslv disfe,rad face of tho
Young girl the nurse fell a horr;ble sho,na
that a human being could he so inhu,nanly
brutal. For two months she hovered he.
tween life and death hut Youth oononered.
and she slowly began TO recover AZ the
end of two months she began 10 walk a
little. All this time no one was adrnitted
to her. as the government was afraid ~
let ner relatives see her in the condition.
she was in. That was to be ken; a secret
NOT to escape from the nrison wallis INTO
the outer world. so it would not cause apy
stir. as Spirldonova's case die.
rs an O'o woman
An acquaintance of mine met her after
SIX months had elapsed, in a north prison,
where she was brought after she began to
walk a little. And this acquaintance of
mine gave me her IMPRESSION. Al the first
moment my friend thought that she
'SothkopD was an elderly woman with
an enormously large face of Indefinitely
outlined features. The face was pale and
covered with red and blush spots.
but her eyes-her eyes spoke for them
selves. Looking INTO them, my friend was
was so much suffering,
SO Inuch SADNESS IN those eyes. My friend
understood that THIS old woman must have
llVed through some great calamity in life.
something enormous some disaster that
Is beyond human endurance. She tried TIC