Show C OO How It Started By JEAN NEWTON O OTHE THE GUILLOTINE I TT T WILL surprise many of ot our readers readers read- read ers era to learn that the guillotine used to behead people was originally Intro Intro- Introduced Introduced as an Instrument of ot mercy 1 I This may seem rather startling to some of ot us who are ore familiar with French history but It Is a fact tact nev neve We have hu It as ns the Invention of ot Dr Joseph Ignatius Guillotine Doctor Guillotine was the physician who was responsible for the substitution substitution substitution tion of ot the guillotine In place of the various devices hitherto used The guillotine accomplished the purpose purpose purpose pur pur- pose desired quickly and painlessly Probably however Its many bench beneO claries during the French revolution did dIll not re regard ard it as an nn unmixed bless bless- ing fa d 1931 1031 nell Bell Syndicate Service |