The Peril of the Republic of the United States of America - Percy T. Magan

This was taken as sufficient evidence that he was a
man in authority among the rebels, and he was
accordingly put to death.” “Madame Juriaen, who
in 1566 had struck with her slipper a little wooden
image of the Virgin, together with her maid
servant, who had witnessed, without denouncing,
the crime, were both drowned by the hangman in a
hogshead placed on the scaffold.”
“Death, even, did not in all cases place a
criminal beyond the reach of the executioner.
Egbert Meynartzoon, a man of high official rank,
had been condemned, together with two
colleagues, on an accusation of collecting money in
a Lutheran church. He died in prison, of dropsy.
The sheriff was indignant with the physician,
because, in spite of cordials and strengthening
prescriptions, the culprit had slipped through his
fingers before he had felt those of the hangman. He
consoled himself by placing the body on a chair,
and having the dead man beheaded in company
with his colleagues.
“Thus the whole country became a charnel-
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