Monday, January 23, 2012

Serious about crime

This is from the Gentleman's Magazine August 1801:

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14 comments:

  1. Anonymous10:37 PM, January 23, 2012

    You are so random.

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  2. Anonymous1:22 AM, January 24, 2012

    ditto

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  3. S.8:57 AM, January 24, 2012

    I have to be random. If I focused one one thing I'd have two readers.

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  4. Abul Bannat11:19 AM, January 24, 2012

    Defenestration was common method of assasination in Prague and other places. I wonder how common it was as a method for official executions. It is in some ways comparable (though reversed) to skilah (as in description of beit haskila).
    Even more interesting is the elaborate post-mortem treatment.

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  5. Anonymous1:36 PM, January 24, 2012

    Ditto S, thanx

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  6. S.1:47 PM, January 24, 2012

    Abul, apart for the grisliness of this account my thought was that it sounded like they were trying to kill him a little too much.

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  7. Abul Bannat2:17 PM, January 24, 2012

    Fred,

    They were trying to kill him after he had died. I imagine that it was pretty hard to do.

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  8. S.2:24 PM, January 24, 2012

    I know. It's almost comical if, again, it wasn't so horrible. The 8th Amendment hadn't been ratified in Prague yet.

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  9. Shimon S2:38 PM, January 24, 2012

    Subsequent autopsy revealed that the real cause of death of the perpetrator was suffocation in the coffin three days later.

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  10. S.2:48 PM, January 24, 2012

    Am I a ghoul if I laughed out loud?

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  11. Shimon S3:14 PM, January 24, 2012

    And BTW, during the famous ("Second" or "Great") defenestration of Prague, the 3 catholic representatives of the emperor, thrown by the protestant nobles out of the 3rd floor window of the castle (about 70 feet), all survived the fall (but didn't smell so nice).

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  12. Dan Klein2:20 AM, January 25, 2012

    The respective fates of the major and his murderer reminded me of a scene in the musical version of "Candide." After the title hero kills the Grand Inquisitor and the rich Jew Don Issachar, both of whom had been his rivals for the love of the beautiful Cunegonde, another character observes, "Ah well, His Holiness will be buried in the Cathedral with the greatest pomp while the Jew will be thrown in the sewer. There are advantages to being a Christian after all."

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  13. Anonymous2:43 AM, January 25, 2012

    Just checkin' to see if anyone has asserted that this story was merely a blood libel. -- Phil

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  14. Nachum3:07 AM, January 25, 2012

    Didn't they dig up Cromwell and execute the dead body after the Restoration?

    Didn't the defenestration of Prague cause the Thirty Years' War?

    Shimon: Sounds like Rasputin.

    -All historical information courtesy of Cracked.com

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