Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1896 — DRAGGED TO DEATH. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DRAGGED TO DEATH.

Horrible Punishment Visited on a French Soldier in A fries. An Instance of horrible barbarity has come to light in the French colony of Algiers. - The military stationed there are not bound strictly by the regulations of the service and have Introduced punishments according to their own ideas. Recently a soldier named Cheymol was found guilty of a minor breach of discipline and was sentenced to what Is known as the “Maseppa ride.” . -! An unshod stallion was brought into a ring, as was the prisoner. They stripped the man and tied his hands. With a strap they fastened his bound hands to the stallion’s tall. The sentence read “to be dragged three times” round the ring. The colonel of the legion, who was present with bis staff, gave the word and the fierce horse was loosed. He immediately began to lash out and plunge, but with whips they got him started. Terrified

at being unable to free, himself from the thing on his tall, he dashed off frantic. Before the third circuit Cheymol was Insensible and covered with blood. The horse wore neither halter nor bridle, and it took a long while to catch him. When he caught the animal was dragging a corpse. This most brutal scene was not only witnessed by officers and men, but many “ladies" were also In attendance, mucb the same as Spanish senorltas attend a bull fight.

DBAOOKD TO DEATH.