Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1899 — Judicial Cruelty In Hungary. [ARTICLE]

Judicial Cruelty In Hungary.

A revolting Instance of magisterial cruelty In the Hungarian village of Mocsa, In the county of Komorn, has just come to light. Last November the offices of the community were broken Into and some money was stolen. Thirteen persons were arrested, and on their refusal to confess were abominably tortured. They were bound hand and foot and beaten with bQxwood sticks by the magistrate and his assistants, who also lighted methylated spirits under the bare feet of one prisoner, and then poured the burning spirit over them. The unhappy wretch, In order to escape further torture, said that he had taken the money and burled It near a pond. His persecutors, on to find It became more enraged than eVer. and ran pointed knives under bis finger nails. Other prisoners were starved for days, and with their hands tied behind them, were bound to frames and left there until they fainted. After all these borrons the actual thief, who was still at liberty, gave himself up to the public prosecutor at Komorn,—London Standard.