TORTURE IN SWITZERLAND.
It is generally supposed that tlm French Revolution of 1789 dealt the practice or judicial torture its death hihw, Mi l (hat nowhere in Europe did -?*' :ni 'v!ve the opening of the present century. inis is an error. A man W'S ri.fY--d in Zu;r so lately as 1824. and for several years thereafter the thumb-screw was b» common noi< this caTTTo n.-mt>rTt7Tf that made am- diffhreic*. as a punishment after con victim!, jor as a means of extorting confession efore tried. In the archives of Ohappears an *at«y, 1840, of,a
payment of 80s, to the executioner f r beating a prisoner (who had proved refract o v under examination) with rods in the “ to turn chamlur.” Even at so recent a date as 1855 this measure of enforcing almissions of guilt seems to have been still in vogue ; for in that year it is slated, in the public r cords, of a ceitain accused person that, “ after being chastised with rods, the prisoner was cautioned that, if he did not answer more frankly be would be led back to til.-* torture room an t severely handled ; whereupon the examination was resumed.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 606, 15 November 1881, Page 3
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194TORTURE IN SWITZERLAND. Temuka Leader, Issue 606, 15 November 1881, Page 3
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