Rivals Spanish Inquisition,
Russian Political Prisoner Writes From Riga Citadel of Horror*
as Awful as Those of the Days of Torque
mada and the Duke of Alva.
A letter smuggled out of Rig* cita
del has two received at Genera, Swlt
lerlaud. telling of the tortures to which
Russlau political prisoners are sub
jected
"There wet* seventeen of us," says
the letter. giving the names. "How
many there are now I cannot say. We
are Incarcerated In damp casementa,
entirely dark, and subject to occasional
Inundation. For food we receive from
one-half to three-quarters of a pound
of bread daily.
"Exainluatloos of rhe prisoner* take
place at night. and the jailers drag us
before the court by the hair or beard.
All the Jailers carry billies of hard rub
ber or of braided wlrv. The usual
tuode of proceeding is is follows:
"Tie jUiiige asks a question, and be
fore tk* frtsoner h?s time to answer
per teeth and then hammered on tt
Thla la guaranteed In Russian prisons
to canae concussion of the brain. Be
sides, It loosens the teeth. This pris
oner was forced to swallow one of his
loosened teeth.
"A brother of ZIral was lashed tAked
through the corridor* after the soles
of his feet hud beeu bastinadoed.
Three times he fain ted, only to be re
vived by application of Ice cold water.
After each revival the torture wss re
sumed
"One of the Sumwbl boys was per
suaded by torture to sign his own
death warrant In a coufesslon so called
charging him with Innumerable crimes.
He will have to be carried to the scaf
fold. for both his N?gs and several ribs
nre broken.
"Marie Damberg after suffering un
speakable Indignities for refusing to
confess was transferred to a dungeoD
NEI'LAND HAD HOT IRONS APPI.1KD To IMS BACK.
the Jailers rain blow:) upon bis arm*
*nd shonlders. We aoon wore mad? to
?oderstand that tbe authorities meant
to vwnte us. for all sorts of charge*
InvoiV-ue the death penalty were
brought igalnst ua, anil we were ex
pected to .o'vilt them, even though we
could not p<A?lbl.v have been at the
plao? where th? -rim* was committed.
"Whoa the knot>^ proved unavailable '
in (tracking forth tUtf desired 'proofs.'
other moans of torturv i?re employed.
After the victim had be??* gagged. his
feet and hands wore boini} and bbl
knees driven against his chin? another
mode of torture was to drag ttv*'jound J
arms across the knee, causing tl? vic
tim to sit lu a crouching position.
?'Incrluiluatlug answers were ordered. !
and If tho\ did not come promptly steel
knouts wore applied to the stomacb I
and llml?>.
"Tin* prisoner Sommer waa subject- j
eil to this treatment during three con
secutive u:;lits. and he lias been vom
iting blool ever since.
"Oswak; Xetilaud after being placed
In the crouching portion had hot Irons
nj mIUhI to li?s Imck. Ziral. an -rher of
o r fri<c:N. lost all of hLs hair and
b ard in single right session. While
f or.. I j.t er? were engaged In tear-;
I. ; th -m .-lit others belabored the na- '
I.. 1 solos of his feet with a piece of;
I" rd nibU-r.
?Those bo<*r1ble tortures faillug, they
f tencd a steel clutch upou his up-|
| where only women of evil character
' are kept.
"The guards told the poor depraved
creatures that Marie was an enemy of
the oxar. They rushed upon her, struck
her. spat In her face. They will surely
kill her.
"Prisoner No. 17. who could not be
persuaded' by any of the methods
j mentioned lo confess, was placed In
I the 'museum.' so called? that Is, In a
subterranean chamber? where a num
j ber of the old time instruments of tor
ture are kept There he remained for
| four hours. He withstood thumb
I screws. Spanish boots and hot Irons,
but after ho had worn the 'helmet* for
two minutes he declared his willing
ness to sign any papers the authorities
wanted.
"This uufortuuate's name Is Llpp?.
1'he 'helmet' so called Is an Iron cap
MOSlsting of two parts. After It ts
p'see^J on the victim's head a screw la
put operation which makes It tight
er an4 tighter, according to the tor
turer's fcWrurc. IJppe's frontal bones
were squ^.vl to such an extent that
he could niK <v* for the blood running,
while a nal. <x the top of the cap
added to the suffered by the
tortured prisoner.
"The Riga pollcv .end the confes
sions to the state's axiwney. who calls
some time later to havk them verified
by the signers. The slgnacare* arc al
ways acknowledged, sines, ^ofuaal
would mean s repetition of ft# tor
ture."
Lynched Negro Still Lives.
Hanged to Tree All Night and Shot Six Times, Colored Burglar
Refuses to Die and May Yet Be Tried.
Left swinging from the branch of an
live and with six bullet wounds lu hi*
><ad and body. Grover Ftanklln, a ; '
t>< ;ro burglar, was cut down by Shar
if Cutler In Dothau. Ala., and It Is
bettered he will recover. The uiob :
which ljn-hed him scattered In the
couvlctloa tSo negro was dead, and It
was not until fifteen minutes after
Butler tud severed the rope that a
doctor discovered signs of life In hfe.'
?till form.
More than a hundred shots were
fired at the maa after he had been
swung with his feet six feet from the
ground, but 4n the excitement of the
mob the great majority of the bullets
went wide. There were 200 men in the
lynching party, and all swore to kill
Franklin.
They took him by main force
from Butler and three deputies. But
ler swore in about twenty citizens as
dspotltt and pursued the mo* so
closely tbnt a quick hanging was de
cided upon by the leaders of the fang
?f lynchers. v
Franklin v/as tied hand aud foot und
strung up on a tree inside the Corpo
ration limits. One minute was given
the negro for prayer, and he took the
time In frenzied appeals for mercy.
He denied the crime with which he
was charged and shouted lr. terror
when finally the n<v*>e was tightened
around his neck.
He was very speedily drawn up by
six men catching the end of the rope
over the branch. They knotted the
rope around the trunk of another tree
and when the mob was ready to scat
ter the firing began. Two of the bal
lets scored the side of the negro's head.
The only serious wound Is In the right
lung.
Franklin is under the car?, of two
physicians In the county Jah. If he
survives, he will have to stand trial on
the charge of breaking Into the store
of x. H. Faulk of Dothox.
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