Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1910 — Novel Ammunition. [ARTICLE]

Novel Ammunition.

During the sieges of mediueval times it wfts v6ry common for the beleaguers to throw from their catapults and other military engines dead bodies of dogs, swine, together with pieces of horseflesh and similar carrion into the city or castle besieged tn order that the defenders might by the stench of this putridity be forced to surrender.