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| Title | The story of Nuremberg |
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| Publisher | J. M. Dent & Co. |
| Date | 1899 |
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| Language | English |
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| Original Item Extent | 303 pages; 18 cm |
| Original Item Location | DD901.N93 H4 1899 |
| Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b1684865~S11 |
| Digital Collection | Exotic Impressions: Views of Foreign Lands |
| Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/exotic |
| Repository | Kenneth Franzheim II Rare Books Room, William R. Jenkins Architecture and Art Library, University of Houston Libraries |
| Repository URL | http://info.lib.uh.edu/about/campus-libraries-collections/william-r-jenkins-architecture-art-library |
| Use and Reproduction | No Copyright - United States |
| Identifier | exotic_201304_001 |
| Title | Page 161 |
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| File Name | exotic_201304_001_168.jpg |
| Transcript | The Council and tbe Council House frames with a sharp iron collar preventing the wearer from sitting, lying, or sleeping. A visit to the Castle of Nuremberg shows us that the rich merchants were ready to use similar arguments to the robber-barons. When the prisoner had been brought into the torture chamber and the professional gentlemen (the Hangman and the Secretary) had decided how much the patient could bear, operations began. A circular opening on the inside of the room above the entrance marks the place behind which sat the person who took down the prisoner's confession. Innumerable devices and instruments had been invented, as we see in the ng which separately and in combination the confession was extorted. Burning candles held under the arms were (am rfective and the favour ite Spanish methods, the Strappado (suspension by the behind the back with weights to the feet), pouring water down the throat and applying fire to the soles of the feet were in frequent use. We find many varieties of the "little ease" or rack in the Castle. The severity of the instrument is attested by the signature of our Ci es before and after being submitted to that ordeal. But even less attractive than this I have been the peine forte et dure. John Gow, it will he rem- tands mute even when his thumbs were squeezed by two men with a whipcord till it bro ^ain when it was doubled and trebled so that the operators could pull with their whole \gth. But his fortitude gave way and he confessed when he had seen the preparations for pressing him to h with the peine forte et dure, a board loaded 1 a peculiar atro d the torture system of Scodand. Torture retained its place in that kingdom's laws as long as she presenred the right of se^- ystem could not surpass, M h barbarities of the Nurem- l 161 |