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Show Terrible Torture In Marocco. A charge had been laid at Mulai Omar's doop that of having ordered the music of the drums and fifes to cease on the occasion of the announcement announce-ment of Mulai Abdul Aziz's succession to the throne. On the players refusing, his highness sent a slave, who enforced Bilence by splitting up the drums with a dagger. For this act of treason he was afterward punished by having the flesh of his hand sliced, the wound filled fill-ed with salt and the whole hand sewed up in leather. It is a common belief that this punishment pun-ishment causes mortification to set i a, and that the hand decomposes, but such is not the case, for by the time the leather wears off the wound is healed, the result being that the hand is render ed useless and remains closed forever It is a punishment not often in use, but is sometimes done in cases of murder or constant theft, as, without in any way injuring the health of the man, it prevents pre-vents his committing the crime a second time or for the hundredth time, as the case may be. It is a punishment that cannot be applied except by the sultan's orders. Blackwood's Magazine. |