Booontly in the district of Dambrovitza, Rouraania, ton peasants unjustly suspootod of stealing were treated with outrageous brutality, in order to compel an acknowledgment of guilt. First they were severely punished with the bastinado. They wore then stripped and severely beaten with nettles. The quills of ducks wore then violently forced between the nails of their fingers and the flesh. When these tortures hud failed to extort confessions, the men wore subjected to indescribable outrages, and finally they wore hung up by the feet. Here they remained until they were half dead, and then, to save their lives, they confessed to having stolon the goods. Before the judge their innocence was clearly established, but the authors of these inhuman tortures escaped spot free.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume LVII, Issue 6506, 3 January 1882, Page 5
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