CRUELTY BY LAW.
Recently in the district of Dambroviizn, Roumania, ten peasants unjustly suspected of stealing were treated with outrageous brutality, in order to compel an acknowledgement of guilt. First they were severely punished with the bastinado. They were then stripped and severely beaten with nettles. The quills of ducks were then violently forced between the nails of their fingers and the flesh. When these tortures bad failed to extort confessions, the men were 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 stolen the goods. Before the judge their innocence was clearly established, but ■the authors of these inhuman tortures escaped scot free.
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Patea Mail, 7 January 1882, Page 4
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