If there is any truth in the statements of the man Gana, as recorded by M. Henri +8} Rochefort, Spain is still disgraced by practices worthy of the Holy Office in its palmiest days. Gana was one: of the humorous suspects arrested immediately after the Barcelona bomb outrage,'and kept in solitary confinement for more than a get up any case against him. Ho year, until it was found' Eapeible to recently made his: way to Paris and shown himself to M. she fort, who con= fesses that he almost fainted atthe sight of the mutilations inflicted on' the unfortunate suspect. According to Gana, his gaolers acting under the orders of a lieut-tenant of gendarmes, forced him to wear handcuffs with spikes inside them. They drove wooden wedges under his toe-nails down to the quick, and then tore the nails off with pincers. They inflicted another torture, too horrible to describe, worthy of a Chinese mob at its worst. All this was done to extort a confession of complicity, but in vain, Tt-seems hardly possible that such atrocities can be perpetrated in -a Christian country at, the end of the nineteenth century, but Gana's injuries speak for themselves.
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