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Show Torture of the "Boot." As late as In tho seventeenth tury and in such civilized and vanced countries as Scotland 8nai Germany and France, tho ha-barn, instrument known as tho "boot'1 commonly used to extract Infor,.,8 from reluctant witnesses, or to tort confessions from accused person' Sometimes tho boot was madu of irn and heated to an unbearable dee!! on the foot of tho helpless victim ? his novel, "Old Mortality," sir Walter Scott alludes to it as mado of thl metal. But In those rough times fQ, ! stout planks hastily nailed together often sufficed for tho purpono Be. I tween the side of tho case and tho let I of tho person it was desired to tor 1 ture wedges were Inserted and ham 1 mered in. Tho result was cxcruclat 1 Ing agony. I |