Garotte Execution in Spain

Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 276, 22 November 1890, Page 3 (Supplement)

Garotte Execution in Spain

Tbe correspondent of the • Daily News' at ™adrid announces thab 30,000 inhabitants W Madrid, mostly women, assembled on oafcurday morning outside tho great prison *«« opposite the scaffold upon which a *oman was to be executed. According to Spanish custom this is done by strangulation. The criminal sits on a wooden bench "Wore a post, against which the neck is pressed and broken by an iron collar. This execution excited tremendous interest in "1 classes of society, and particularly a| oong the lower orders. Many were dissatisfied with the sentence, because it was believed that this servanb girl had not been ™one in the murder of her aged mistress. b »e confessed her share in the crime, bub accused another womau, who was sentenced to i penal servitude, with being the Principal actor jn the tragedy. The Madrid P&pera on this occasion gave vivid der ri P«oneof the horrors of thepresentsystem J>y which a convicb is snub up for thirty onra with friars and priests, sayiDg massee »na prayers and keeping the wretched «imioal in the awful presence of his or her ?PP r ° fate. In this case the woman aUr-M c carried to the scaffold half insensible.