The Archive · 1928

Burned at the Stake

Skraben then gave her medicine to revive her, and when she regal ed consciousness, he tied her to the wooden pest of her bed, piled maggots of wood around her fect, threw kerosene over her, and then set fire to the heap. Nothing wax left but ashes. He then gave himself up to the police, explained in was perfectly justified.

The trial of this fiend in hu form has just been concluded, Skraben has been sentenced to prisonment for life.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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