THE STEEL MAIDEN.
A German correspondent of the Toledo Blade tells of the steel maiden, which is kept in her room precisely as she was in the days of her usefulness. You are shown what at first sight appeals to he the rude statue of a woman cluins ly hewn out of wood. The guide noiselessly opened it, one door swinging to the right and the other to the left. The statue was hollow, and just the size of the average man. Inside ware straps by which the offender was bound so that he could not move a muscle. All the doors were lined with long sharp steel spikes, strong and thick. When the victim was firmly secured the door on the left was slowly but firmly shut, and the long spikes went into his body, two being so arranged as to pierce his eyas. Then the door on the right was closed in a similar manner, and ho would receive another compliment of spikes, the closing of the doors being done very slowly, that the torture of the man in the embrace of the maiden might be as long as possible. The very lust spike pierces his heart. After remaining shut up for a while the straps were unfastened from the outside, a spring was touched, and the man fell 15ft into a cleverly constructed machine that ground him up as fine as mince-meat, and dropped him into the river below, making food for fishes.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1129, 2 August 1883, Page 3
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246THE STEEL MAIDEN. Temuka Leader, Issue 1129, 2 August 1883, Page 3
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