REVENGE ON DEBT COLLECTOR

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12616, 29 November 1926, Page 9

REVENGE ON DEBT COLLECTOR

CRUCIFIED UPSIDE DOWN A NIGHT OK AGONY. The terrible experience of being crucified upside down by an angry debtor be lei Andre Comoe, wlio was sent by his firm to collect tn© accounts oi farmers in the South ot France. After a long day lie readied the house of Jean Ddmont and presented JUis . bill for payment. Delmont had just goue to bed, and rose in a lit ol ungovernable fury. Before Combe realised what was happening he hud been felled by a blow from a Heavy club, and was then pushed into the house, where Delmont, aided by his wife, bound him hand and loot and belaboured him with sticks. He was then dragged feet foremost up a ladder and suspended upside uown, while his arms were stretched out in the position of crucifixion, one arm being tied to the leg of a heavy table and the other to a hook in the wall. He was then given a further beating. Madame Delmont poured a bowl of boiling water over his head and plucked out several handfuls of his hair. Left alone through the night, Coxnhe gnawed at the cord which bound his left arm until he had bitten it through, and then he was able to release his right arm and unfasten his feet. He was, however, more dead than alive when lie crawled from the scene of his torture. Delmont is now under arrest on charges of robbery with violence and unlawful detention.