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Show H METHOD OF LCOAL TORTURE. B England tha Laat ef Clvllliad Courv B trlta to Abolleh It. lftiRland, aa all the world knowa, waa tho laat of clvlllied eountrlea to abollah tho teat by torturo aa a rcgu M lar legal Inatltullon. A historian who haa mado a apcclat Investigation ol modern raethoda of torture haa die- COTCrod that the barbntlo practice If H allll common In many out ortho-way K cornera of tho globe. Tim early Knc- B "" ayatcm, loo, haa keen widely Im m Italod. Kven In tha time ot Henry H Itt tha torturo trial waa In voguo. m Flrat camo threo daya of preparation Hl by fatting and prayer. On the aotemn H day a caldron waa mado to boll In j church and a atone waa placed, appar- M e.nily, In the boiling water. Two H furlca ot twolre men apiece were pros- H ent In the Intercat of accuaer and ac- M cuied. Iloth atdea teated the water, M end If they agreed that It waa boiling r the accuacd Ihruat In hla bare arm H and took out the atone. Hla arm waa then wrapped In cloth and aealod On tha third day the print Inspected tha B arm and It It waa perfectly healed the accuaad cot off It aroma aa If the toiling repreacntallvea may havo been j tampered with ur the oxamlnlug prlett BHJ (nay have been, corrupted |