SERBIAN LADY'S ORDEAL

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 159, 31 March 1919, Page 4

SERBIAN LADY'S ORDEAL

From Serbian official sources a slory comes of torture intlietod by fiuljiarians on a Serbian lady, the wife of a Serbia A officer against whom thev had nwpd vengeance for opposing Bulgarian piupngandn. As they could not reach the oifieer himself, they arrested his wife and five children. The wife was compelled to go on foot under escort from I'ristina to Veles, where she was condemned to death by court-martial. Next (lav she was kept in sight (.1' a gibbet, but after a. period of. profound mental agony was removed-to. prison and told that she would not be hanged for t ivcntyfottr hours. On the following day slio was Again taken lo the execution ground, anil for twelve hours faced the gallows, awaiting her execution. Once more she was sent back .'to her cell, but- in the meantime was Hogged until she became unconscious.- Then slio was imprisoned at Nish, and again wos led out for execution. this time to be shot. She was lined up with a number of Serbian priests and schoolmasters, who were shot before her eyes, but when it came to her turn-she was told that she would bo eent. to Sofia. .Hero she was thrown into a cellar, and her legs placcd in irons. In this condition she was kept for four months without a change of dollies; Next she was sent to a prisoners' camp, and, being destitute, was forced to beg. She was finally relenscd after the armistice.