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Show KOB 10 E00H, EE SUFFERED '! ; . . : : EZGiiUCIATIRa TORTURES ALL ONE NIGHT was driven out. from beneath far enough so-that it could be pulled the remainder of the way with a, pair of pincers. Merhoon was then hurried to a hospital, ' where his injuries were dressed. The physicians say that he will recover unless blood poisoning sets in. He can speak no English, but through an interpreter said that the revenge was taken because he had re- j fused to give up his position at the mill. . - - - - . r -. When asked whether he would bring legal action against his assailants, he said that he would not, but the Interpreter, Inter-preter, who was his friend, said that there was another way for them to secure se-cure revenge. This means a. feud between be-tween the two factions of the forelgn-ers. forelgn-ers. . ' - Mediaeval Punlshnerit Inflicted In-flicted on an Ijricrant ;Pole Who Tcok a Place " Held by Another. ; PITTSBURG, Feb."! 3, Anton: Merhoon, Mer-hoon, a Pole.- suffered one jof tbe most excruciating tortures ever allotted to man. , For four hours he stood' with " one of hla Ieet nailed to the floor. Then he. underwent the pain of having the nail extracted that" he ''might"-' be' released. re-leased. McOhoon was employed as a laborer at , the Schoenberger mills," having arrived ar-rived Jn this' country -recently.: For some . reason his countrymen disliked him. . He says, that this dislike is due , to1 his having succeeded one of their ,. jj inost intimate friends at the mill. They allege that he took the place for less money. Hbw They "Got, Even." At any " rate, they resolved to "get even" with him. Merhoon was working alone . in a room. Suddenly the door was thrown open and his four countrymen country-men entered. Merhoon says that they demanded that he givr up his place at once and leave the city. This Merhoon refused to do. - -' The four men then set upon Mm and beat him In a terrible manner. Then one of them picked up a hammer which Was lying on the floor, secured a nail or small spike about four inches long, which was driven through the struggling strug-gling man's right foot and into the floor. " " ' . . iDoor Locked. - - . V - J Then they left the room, taking the key and locking the door after them. Every move that the unfortunate man made put him in awful agony. He screamed, but as the room is far removed re-moved from -any other portion of the mill, he was not heard. 'The attack upon him was committed at about 2 o'clock in the morning. From that time until , when the man whose duty it was to relieve him arrived, Merhoon suffered vthe most horrible pain. When his relief arrived he found the door locked. By this time Merhoon was so exhausted that he was almost unconscious. un-conscious. ' He could not epeaS, and the relief attempted to lift him, ud. only adding to his misery. When it was found that Merhoon was spiked to the floor help was summoned. Then the question confronted them as to how to get the nail out. 1 ' . Work of Rescue. J J Finally a portion of the floor was 1 torn ud and the nail, which had gone ' through the foot and board of the floor, |