Show when your head Is off dr loye relates abo following strange story taken from the archives of the austrian police office and relating to an execution said to have taken place in vienna in 1680 A well known bandit named burg was caught together with four of his associates and they were all condemned to death they already on their knees ready to submit to their fate when addressed the judge asking that his four companions might bo ranged in single file in front of himat a distance of eight feet from each other if said he after I 1 am be headed J get up and walk to the first of my comrades will you pardon him the judge thought he wag pretty safe in complying with the request but if J walk up to tho second the third and the fourth will you pardon these also the judge replied that he would ain their pardon irom the emperor the partisan way satisfied bent liis head received the mortal blow and his head rolled down but to the great surprise of the judge and the spectators the body got up walked alone massod tho second third and fourth of the condemned men and fell down the occurrence was the emperor who par donit lw four |