SOLDIERS’ MEDIÆVAL TORTURE.
Says a Vienna cable: —The son of a well-known cotton merchant, who was doing his year’s voluntary military service in a cavalry regiment, being over come by the heat, was caught napping by a passing sentry. Although he woke up at once and answered the salute, he was reported and court-martialled.
The proceedings lasted several weeks, during which time he was kept in close confinement and not allowed to see his friends. It came out in evidence that he could not have been asleep more than three minutes, yet he was sentenced to six weeks’ solitary confinement, with one fast day every week, and to he chained hand and foot every second week. The sentence has caused the greatest consternation in Vienna.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 12 October 1901, Page 4
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125SOLDIERS’ MEDIÆVAL TORTURE. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 12 October 1901, Page 4
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