THE FERRER CASE (CLASSIC REPRINT)

Excerpt from The Ferrer CaseAt about nine in the morning of Tuesday, the rath of October, he was shot. Following the custom of England and of many other countries in the case of a public execution, he was buried in the prison cemetery. Spanish opinion, though hostile to the man, would perhaps have preferred the return of the body to his relatives.There is the summary of the story as it might have been told by any newspaper correspondent who desired to do justice to both sides, to tell the exact truth, and to let his fellow-beings have nothing more than infor mation. There is the story as it would have been told by the agents of our cosmopolitan Press if those agents were free. A man of such and such Opinions, notoriously the leader of such and such a section of Opinion in a particular town, was arrested after a rising in that town, a rising directed against the national Government and having for its object its overthrow. That rising after its first inception was captured and organized in a particular direction. Life was lost, pro perty destroyed, and the lives lost and the property destroyed were those of the mans opponents. He was tried under the full procedure of the laws of his country, witnesses were heard and cross-examined, pleadings for the Crown and for the Defence were delivered, a verdict of guilty was brought in against him and he was duly executed. An especial fuss was made about him because he was a high official in a powerful secret society and was connected with a very important inter national movement. There is the plain truth.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfecti