Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 148, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1912 — PRINTING ONCE IN DISFAVOR [ARTICLE]

PRINTING ONCE IN DISFAVOR

Follower* of the Art Have Been Known to Expiate Their “Crime*" on the Gallows. ' On the 18th of July, 1860, Martin •Lhomme, one of two who were hanged . ifn the Place Maubert by the decree of the parliament, suffered because he had published a writing entitled “Bpistre envoyee au tlgre de la France” (A letter directed against the Tiger of France), a satire directed •against the cardinal of Lorraine, then all-powerful, which had probably been rlmprlhted at Basle In Switzerland, or Strasburg, Germany. The culprit, according to the historian De Thou, was « poor little bookseller, a native of ftoue.n. While he was waiting at the gibbet, pays £hj&rles Winslow Hall In the National one of his fellow countrymen, coming into Paris on business, saw him on his way and recognized him. “Then,” says Regpier de la Planche, “not knowing why he WBB condemned to death, he alighted from his horse at a neighboring hos'teiry, and, seeing the ‘people very angry against the unfortunate man, & “Eh. what my friends, is it not enough that he dies? Leave him to the . executioner. Would you like to torment him more than his sentence demands?’ .They considered the Norman’s pity misplaced. He was forthwith arrested, judged and hanged (four days later without any form of process In the same fatal Place MauW 111 i