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EXPLORING EUROPE'S TORTURE
DUNGEONS
Chance blows of the picks and shov-
els of building workers are, to -day,
laying bare the strange and terrible
scenes •of ancient European torture
dungeons, whose very existence is un-
suspected by the modern inhabitants
of the cities in which they are discov-
ered.
.A1 short time ago, workers were
knocking down an old wall in the
province of Castile in Spain, when
the points of their picks struck a
hole which appeared to 'be a window
filled up and concealed ages ago. Men
were lowered by ropes to the bottom
of the cavity. They found themselves
standing in what was an old-time
dungeon, measuring eighteen by twen-
ty-one feet. The light of an electric
torch flashed into the deep shadows
of a mildewed wall, revealing many
skeletons and mummified bodies. They
had been buried alive during the Mid-
dle Ages.
Some of the torture dungeons were
arranged with diabolical ingenuity by
spacing unequally the steps leading
from them. The first step might be,
say, ten inches high; the next six
inches; the third eleven inches, the
fourth three inches, and. so on. A vic-
tim would be allowed to "escape" from
the clutches of the hangman. He
would race up the steps with the reg-
ular lifts of each foot naturally giv-
en by the rhythm of his body balanced
by his ear and brain as when a mod-
ern airrrian is "flying blind." The
idea was that he should stumble and
fall backward into the hands of the
executioners at hos heels.
The tourist who goes round the
strange dungeons under the old Rath-
aus, or Castle, of Nuremburg will see
the stocks called the "Fiddle" on ac-
count of the wailing heard when the
hangman screwed the thumbs and fin-
gers, or clapped a collar of spikes on
the neck •of a captive.
Then there are the "Foss" — a
"cradle" cushioned with steel spikes'
and with an unpleasantly inclined
back, on which and against which
captives were held and rocked; the
"spiked hare" on wooden roller cov-
ered spikes and used to smash the
prisoner's limbs, the "wheel" in which
the victim was hound to a wooden bed
when the wheel of iron and heavy
band with a big steel shaft—whirled
over him and pressed him down with
such force to break every bone in his
body. Criminals are known to have
made desperate efforts to commit sui-
cide to escape the "torture chair,"
seemingly a harmless instrument but
really terrible in its operation. Some
of these chairs were shown in Lon-
don some years ago. They were of
various shapes, studded'\with wooden
spikes, so that no matter what atti-
tude the tortured captive assumed,
the pain soon became unbearable. The
"Spanish Donkey" was a plank of
wood set upright with the top planed
to a point, astride which the captive
was placed with weights attached to I
his legs, until the point cut through f
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a
ese tortiUe, be ' wera aimed to -fall`
at inte*vala of :a few socende , Ra0100•
i in:OW.. ln* and thmnlbscrewe a,
bound, -a;itd•there• is a block retaining;
tk�e• cute -made !by the executioner's
axe crashing on the victims? necks.
1 „6 one spot on, the famous Grand;
•Oanal of- Venice, in the days of the
notorious Oouncil of Ten, it was death.
for fishermen to cast their nets. sn
to these waters were thrown sacks
.containing the bodies of strangled
Prisoners, taken at midnight from the
Piomhi, the leaden cells of the Pun-
ishment Dungeon, and thrown into -
the canal. At the castle of Villalta
the "guest" was seated on an ingen-
ious
ngenious sofa which turned upside down,
dropping the victim into a trap be-
low onto rowt of spikes.
TORONTO MAN FINDS LONG
SOUGHT ANCESTORS
We have no wish to add fuel t
the flames of the evolution debate,
although we believe that if man i
descended from a lower order of be
ing it is high time he was made a
ware of the fact, but a natural re.
luctance to steer clear of so bitterl
controversial a topic cannot outweig a`
a desire to point to •.notable achiev
ment of a Toronto man. It happen
that this achievement lies in one
the fields covered by evolution. Th
scientist in question is Professo
Davidson Black, a native of Toront
and a graduate of the University o
Toronto. Professor Black .has discov
ered in China what those competen
to judge say is perhaps the mos
important human evidence of th
evolutionary theory. He has discov
ered what is popularly oalled the
missing link. He has discovered
bones, including the skull, of a
primitive ratan. The skull shows
marked differences from any simian
skull ever found' and as marked dif-
ferences from the human skull. The
relics of the Peking man now take
rank with those of the Piltdown
man, and the Java man, and in some
respects are more interesting than
either. They also tend to set at rest
the furious debates which have
ranged round these other skulls. They
are, in a word, an extraordinary im-
portant contribution to palaeontology.
It should be said that 'when Dar-
win wrote "The Descent of Man"
comparatively little was known of
the fossil remains of either men or
apes, and 'palaeontology therefore
contributed little to his arguments;
The first great find was that of Dr.
Eugene Dubois, an Amsterdam scien-
tist, who had the idea that man's an-
estors instead of wandering to the
west like the chimpanzees and goril-
as from their original home in North-
rn India, might have gone east like
he orang-utans and gibbins. He
herefore began an exploration in
ova where, after long labors, he dis-
overed •certain fossils which he pre-
umed to have been those of a \prim-
tive man. To this day there has been
o agreement as to whether he was
ight or wrong, nor has there been
greement as to which geological
poch the bones should be ascribed.
Twenty years ago the remains of
he so-called IPilitdown man were
i•scovered in the Weald of Sussex
y Mr. Charles Dawson, a lawyer
nd amateur palaeontologist. Once
nore controversy burst forth, and
anged over the age of the fossil re-
mains; whether they were, in fact,
ossils of an ape -like creature• or a
man -like creature, or whether the
ollection of fossils belonged to the
ame genera. There was the ad-
litional point that the human skull
ound near Piltdownwas vastly dif-
erent from that found in Java
which suggesuggesteda doubt as to
hether they could have been con-
emporaries. Now comes the dis-
overy of Professor Black at Chou
{ou Tien, which, according to Pro-
essor G. Elliott Smith, in "Anti-
uity," puts an end to uncertainty
nd marks a new epoch in human
alaeontology. He says that it "has
issipated the chief element of doubt
nd uncertainty in regard to the
ther two' genera of the human
mildly, for it not only provides us
with much fuller and unequivocal in-
ormation concerning a third and
itherto unknown genus of early
leistocene man, but in addition it
stablishes a bond of union between
he other two types, and shows that
he Ape -man of Java and the Wawn-
man of Piltdown are not really in-
ompatible with one another."
The new skull, it appears, combines
he best features of the other two.
I•ow it came to be discovered is a
aseinating story which we must
reatly condense. Thirty years ago
German scientist purchased in a
druggist shop in Peking a collection
of "dragon's bones," which he sent
home. Another curious scientist ex-
amined them! and discovered the fos-
silized remains of what he supposed
to be a human tooth. This suggested
that great fossil treasures might be
found in the same part of China
where the tooth had originated, and
for many years afterwards there were
various efforts made to find the
source. The hunt was focussed upon
Chou Kou Tien, and an occasional,
fragment encouraged: the explorers to
believe that they were in the right
place. It also attracted Prof. Black
to China where he took a position
with the Peking Medical College, giv-
ing his spare time to the work of ex-
humation. Not long ago he had the
great luck, if one can call the result
of explorations scientifically plan-
ned and most sicrupulously carried
out by that name—to find an almost
complete skull.
Later on another brain -case was
found, and it is supposed that one
was that of a male and the other that
of a female. What struck the scien-
tists as most interesting was that the
Peking man, whether older or young-
er than the. Piltdown man or the Java
man, represented a more primitive
type. Nevertheless, as was to be in-
ferred from the skull, he would be
much more agreeable to look at ;
though we doubt whether anybody
but a scientist would get much of a
thrill by looking at any of the skulls
or even at the original bearers of
them. Another interesting point is
that the most diligent search has;
failed to reveal any tools' which the.
Peking man may have used. This
is an indication that this man was'
so primitive than he had not as yet
begun to shape implements of stone
for the ordinary needs of his daily
life.
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For political prisoners, there was
the infamous "Iron Virgin" or, "Eis-
erne Jungfrau" in a secret recess of
a great bastion in the town \hall,
which embraced the unwilling victim,
cut him to pieces with revolving
knives, after transfixing his body,
eyes and brains with spikes of steel.
The clockwork mechanicians, for
which old Nuremberg was noted, had
ingeniously prepared machines to
snake away with the victims so that
the dead told no tales. Usually they
were dropped into Ia subterranean
culvert.
There is a veritable armory of
torture machines to be found in the
little-known and ancient castle of
Valitza, in the Black Mountains of
Armenia. This was at one time the
fortress of an Oriental bandit, but is
now the monastery of a brotherhood
of Gray Friars. It has a library con-
taining hundreds"of volumes and anc-
ient documents relating to old-time
tortures and torture machines. The
torture dungeons deep .below the foun-
dations of the castle are kept under
lock and key. The shuddering sight-
seer may see rings with the bones of
human hands and arms still dangling
from them. 'Many are the unfortun-
ate mien and women who have been
tortured to death in these dungeons,
while the flames of the red furnace
lit upi the walls, and .the robber bar-
on7s executioners sought to make
helpless folk reveal where they had
hidden their money and jewels. There
are large, open iron chests, studded
with numerous long rust -corroded
spikes, and a chair in whose hollow
was lit a fire over which the captive
was made to sit, ,
Another macabre torture chamber,
shown to modern tourists, is located
at The Hague, Netherlands. In one
cell is a stone hollowed out by drops
of water that splashed from the pris-
oner's heady on Which, like the Chin.
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