2003.03.16
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Novelist Edmund C. Bentley
Wrote poetry, too — subsequently
He and his strange middle name
Have gathered their own little fame.
Wrote poetry, too — subsequently
He and his strange middle name
Have gathered their own little fame.
More from Salt:
To enforce the law against suicide, it was ordered that the bodies of people who took their own lives be salted, brought before a judge, and sentenced to public display […] Breton historians have discovered that in 1784 in the town of Cornouaille, Maurice LeCorre had died in prison and was ordered salted for trial. But due to some bureaucratic error, the corpse did not get a trial date and was found by a prison guard more than seven years later, not only salted but fermented in beer, at which point it was buried without trial.