Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1876 — Military Executions in the Servian Camp. [ARTICLE]

Military Executions in the Servian Camp.

The Servian correspondent of the Paris. Etenement, after relating how he was turned out of the camp at Alexinatz by order of Prince MHan, describes a double execution which k§ witnessed. A soldier who had deserted his post and a gyps}' woman accused of being a_ spy were ordered to be shot. The sdldier demanded that be might be executed musket iu hand, and his request was granted; he walked quietly up to a large tree and leaned his back against it. The firing party, took up its position at ten paces distant, and were about to level their arms when the condemned stretched out liis-hand and cried: “Michel Branicovanowitch, forget not that you promised my sister a silver chain!” “I remember, and will keep my word,” answered the man in the firing party. “Thank you. Render me also another service, and cut my throat before lam buried.” “It shall be done.” .The officer gave the command to fire, and Joblinowitcli fell, but only wounded. A man stepped forward to finish him, but he cried: “Not that one—Michel.” And Michel Branicovknowitch approached and blew out the wounded man’s brains. Then came the turn of the zingara, whom the soldiers hung to the branch of the tree. She never uttered a word while the preparations were being made, and merely followed the movements of the executioner with her glittering eyes. —Pall Mall Gazette.