A Servant of Satan: Romantic Career of Prado the Assassin — page 78: what you’re looking at

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1 A SERVANT OF SATAN. colonel to a dinner party at the bungalow of the English - political resident. Three days afterward Frederick received an invitation from the Guicowar to be present at the execution of the — widow’s murderer, who was condemned to undergo the punishment of ‘‘ death by the elephant.” This punishment is one of the most frightful that can possibly be imagined. The culprit, secured hand and foot, is fastened to the elephant’s hind leg by a long cord passed EXECUTION BY ELEPHANT. round his waist. The latter is urged into a rapid trot through the streets of the city, and every step gives the cord a violent jerk which makes the body of the condemned wretch bound on the pavement. On arriving at the place of execution he is released, and by a refinement of cruelty a glass of water is given to him. Then when he has sufilci- ently recovered to feel the throes of death his head is placed upon a stone block, and the elephant exoouuGnes. 4 18 made to crush it beneath his enormous foot. comicbooks.co ae ee re ee le ee ie } wer pee eet” aS