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Show 1 uu THE OLD SHIP OF TORTURE Having served a term of nine years in St Quentin, J J. McNamara fce)3 sufficiently hardened to prison restrictions restric-tions to attempt lo endure one week in an old torture cell aboard the Aus-1 tralian convict ship Success, now in New York harbor. He will serve one j week to win f 250 offered by the cap j tain to any one willing to go through the ordeal. In ihe days when England sent her convicts lo Australia, the ship was Ell ted out for carrying the exiled men, and, in keeping with the ihought of the time, there, were methods of torture , not employed today The cell in which McNamara, the dynamiter, is o be I contined, will provide scarcely room to turn around and will be pitch dark. This form of solitary confinement was j intended to break tho spirit of any man within a week. Prison life, one hundred years ago. WU destructive of mind and body and, if the prison keeper was a man without with-out heart, it was death within a short time. I But in Mongolia today, in prisons , far removed from close contact with modern civilization., the inflicting of j heart crushing punishment compares with the worst cruelty ever carried on in any part of tho world. The last Geographic Magazine has a reproduced photograph of a woman so boxed up I M to allow only her head to be seen through a hole This unfortunate hu man being was sentenced to be starved to death in that manner. American soldiers, who were in Chi j na after the Boxer uprising, took pic-1 tures of public executions, where the j victims were cut to pieces by a slow j process of slicing the flesh For many things we should be thank j ful, but none more so than that the I old inhumanities are being removed and mankind generally is escaping from a desire to inflict on the crinil nal extreme pain. |