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Show I HORRORS OF DARK AQE8. Visions Conjured Up In Torture Room of Ancient Tyrant. The horror of horrors In all Italy Is found at Padua, known as the torture rooms of that demonical monster of cruelty, Kccllno, a thlrtcnth century ruler of Verona, Padua, Vlconza and Ilrescln. His cruelties finally became bo Intolerable that tbo church proclaimed pro-claimed 'a crusade against him. The peasantry roso and a farmer killed tho brute with a scythe. I was shown an upright box In which was tho skeleton f ot a victim. Two apertures enabled t,ho condemned to see a table, just out of reach, crowded with fodd and f drink. To-day, It Is stago food and the wlno Is colored wafer, but tho realism i Is Intense. The climax of shuddors was reached when I camo to a block p In tho center of a small squaro room, b Nailed to tho chopping block, severed midway between the wrlBtandolbow, I lny the dainty hand of a woman, Just I ns It had been chopped from the living P arm! Tho Instant my eyes saw this sight tho cell seemed to resound with 6 the Bhrloks of tho terrified woman, I and, although tho hand I gazed upon I f was of wax, tho mental Bhock pro-I' pro-I' duced was dreadful beyond conception. I Brooklyn Eagle. E t |