Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1898 — Sensation of Hanging. [ARTICLE]

Sensation of Hanging.

A captain who was rescued from the gibbet kt the intercession of Viscount Turenne, after being partially hanged, related thar, having lost all pain in an instant, by being rescued he had been snatched from a glorious light, the charm of which defied all description. All victims of partial hanging agree that the uneasiness is quite momentary; that a pleasant feeling succeeds, and that various colors start before the sight, casting everything else in oblivion. The mind, averted from reality, is engaged in scenes most remote from that which fills the eye of the spectator—hideous gallows arid the struggling form.—Scientific American. ’