After the signal to the executioner the fourth question followed:
"Of what crimes are you guilty?"
(For the purpose of greater perspicuity the chair dictated to the recording secretary the Latin nomenclature of the crimes confessed.)
Prisoners: "I was a member of a band of robbers and incendiaries."
"Primo, latrocinium," dictated the chair.
Prisoner: "I won the affections of my benefactor's wife."
Chair: "Secundo, adulterium."
Prisoner: "I robbed a church."
Chair: "Tertio, sacrilegium."
Prisoner: "I masqueraded as a nobleman under a false name."