Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1891 — HAND-CHOPPING. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HAND-CHOPPING.

The Fate of Thieves and Robbers in Not them Africa. Captain jßinge; ; relates- that. in course of his recent .i n , Northern Africa he wits ! k -witness of the punishment q( three robbers, who were uiutilated^by.hav^ng T thfeit bright hands cut off. ’ All the members of' the ’ tribe to which they belonged were marshalled

to see the ceremony, and those who tried to escape the spectacle were brought back to it by whipping. Each robber laid his hand on a log of wood, when it was chopped off by a stout executioner at one stroke. The hands were then nailed to a tree, the stumps of the arms sewed, and the executioner and his men dispersed the tribe with kicks and curses.

MUTILATING ROBBERS IN NORTHERN AFRICA.