POISON
| POISONED RING. | ||
| POISONED GLOVES. | ||
| POISONED SWORD. | ||
| POISONED HOCKEY STICK. | POISONED SHIRT. | POISONED DAGGER. |
| POISONED BOOTS. | POISONED BOWL. |
DEVICES
CONCEIVED BY THE GRIM AND GHASTLY
INGENUITY OF OUR FOREFATHERS.
THE ingenuity of man in devising schemes to perpetuate life has almost been equalled by his ingenuity in framing devices to abridge it. In all ages there have been men who hated convention, even conventional murder. When they desired to remove an enemy secretly, they had recourse to poison; but not to ordinary schemes of poisoning. They made it an art.
An interesting device, very palpably suggested by the famous shirt of Nessus, is that given on the opposite page. The shirt was charged within with poison of great acerbity, which so acted upon the skin of its wearer as to inflame and then blister with incredible malignity, until the victim died in horrible agonies.