Inter-Mountain Republican | 1909-08-06 | Page 3 | Many Prisoners Are Being Shot

I MANY PRISONERS I IARE ARE BEING SHOT London Au Aug 6 6 Frida Friday 5 a. a m. m m.- m. Spain Is exacting terrible retribution for th the wild deeds of oC last Wee week Ie says the Barcelona correspondent of oC the tho the Dall Dally Daily Chronicle Her Bel military Judges Judges' es' es boast Is no Idle one one that when the tile work of or repression Is finished hed not oven even a mouse with anarchistic Hies will be found In the whole province of ot Catalonia A thousand prisoners of or whom over o a hundred were women and anti an equal number of ot boys havo been confined In fortress where time the they are be being be- be Jn ing summarily tried and shot hot In batches each morning A court martial consists of ot five e of ot- The prisoners lire are brought ht from cells celiA In the time castle vaults b by a winding I staircase and ushered Into a narrow apartment where sit the Judges es When hon I they leave leavo It Is by another door upon tho the opposite side I Their death warrant is already signed All ll that is needed to seal their doom Is Js evidence direct or circumstantial thai of or participation If It there Is an any smell of or petroleum or if It there are traces of gunpowder on their hands the they are arc promptly condemned From rom the tile finding of ot till court there Is no appeal chiefly b because cause a very few hours after aUer sentence Is pronounced It Is executed Without exception the prisoners met death unflinchingly l being executed in groups of or five