Smoothcat,
Reference to post #50.
When Captain Rath went around supervising the noose adjustment, with the guards/soldiers there, it would be rather easy to tinker with the noose, in addition to the prisoners moving around and fouling the original adjustment. If the soldiers knew how important the placement of the coil side of the noose was, as to make it quick or not--the potential to be sadistic was there. Mind you -- "potential" and or "opportunity" was possible.
Nobody really will know for sure what was going in the minds of the soldiers handling the prisoners after Captain Rath stepped away and gave the command.
I'm sure he would be as humane to all as possible...but, certainly shows he favored at least one man out of the bunch.
M. E. Wolf
Reference to post #50.
When Captain Rath went around supervising the noose adjustment, with the guards/soldiers there, it would be rather easy to tinker with the noose, in addition to the prisoners moving around and fouling the original adjustment. If the soldiers knew how important the placement of the coil side of the noose was, as to make it quick or not--the potential to be sadistic was there. Mind you -- "potential" and or "opportunity" was possible.
Nobody really will know for sure what was going in the minds of the soldiers handling the prisoners after Captain Rath stepped away and gave the command.
I'm sure he would be as humane to all as possible...but, certainly shows he favored at least one man out of the bunch.
M. E. Wolf