1. "Lynched"
Posted by harry on Jun-29th-02 at 5:20 PM

This has nothing to do with the Borden murders. I ran across this rather lengthy story of a rape/murder, and subsequent lynching, case which occured in 1872 in Ohio. Just thought I'd share it.

http://www.heidelberg.edu/~dkimmel/murder/daybook.htm

Thanks for sharing, Harry.  What an awful story, that poor little girl.  I guess no period in history is as safe as we'd like to think it is. 

I don't have the time or interest to read it all. I would prefer a formal trial, etc. But the horrendous nature of this crime and the attempted destruction of the evidence (!!!) certainly explains a lot.

Pigs (like bears etc.) are scavengers (like crabs or lobsters). That's why such foods are not kosher.

This sort of occurrence was all too common in the bad old days.  The first volume of "Victorian Vistas" is full of such tales.  Several of the "executions by mob" were performed by burning the victim at the stake, rather than by hanging. 

I think the phrase is "morally depraved", a factor for increased punishment. To rape and murder a young girl, feed her body to the pigs, then sell the pigs to the villagers so they can consume them in turn is something that deserves extra punishment.

The only reason this doesn't happen today is people do not keep pigs around to dispose of evidence. Like that guy in Milwaukee, or a neat trick for the Mob? Did this occur in "Peyton Place" (if you don't remember this, you are younger than me).

This sort of thing happened here in Florida...in Lake City, in February, 1978.

Ted Bundy stole 12 year old Kimberly Leach, stole her life and her innocence, and left her body in a disused pig-sty.
He fried for that...the equivalent of burning at the stake?

Electrocution is said to quickly knock out a person due to the jolt thru the brain. But the muscles react as well. The person literally fries and sizzles due to the current.

Burning at the stake has two options. First, the victim is strangled by the rope around the neck, and is dead before consumed by fire. Or, they are left alive to burn (or until they inhale the heated smoky air and pass out, like victims in a fire). Burning was considered a final insult since the body was destroyed into ashes and bone parts.

Are we becoming too gruesome? A good library may have something on this, but borrowing such a book may put you on a list for police investigation ("why such an interest?").
Big Brother IS watching you!

That's cool.
But they'd be wasting their time.
I have naught to hide.
Plus I have Friends In High Places.
I figured out I am only 2 people removed from the President.

(Like that 6 degrees of seperation...)

He-he!  Great minds...Once when I was an Office Director with the Government, and working for an independent agency, I figured out that I was only a couple of echelons removed from the presidency.  I told my father about it, and he was really impressed.  However, I was never called upon to serve in POTUS's stead while he was out of the country or undergoing a medical procedure.  Drat!  I remember when Reagan was shot, I thought, "Well, I'm sure I'd be better at the job than Alexander Haig."

Oh, My God/dess   THAT IS SO FUNNY!

Impressing Dad's is Cool!   

(Message last edited Jul-11th-02  5:16 AM.)