| Show A QUINTUPLE EXECUTION HOW THE DEATH or OF missionaries WAS AVENGED account b by 7 nil an eyewitness eye witness of the execution of rive chinese for far participation in zu ku cheng massacre san francisco jan 22 J C oswald 0 cf c f chicago who arrived on the steamer contle Cop tle from the ithe orient was an eye atness of the execution of 0 live five wen who who had been i Ing leaders in the anassa ere cre ot of at t ku cheng the execution occurred it at roo foo chow in the pic sence ot of tt a vast number of Ch chinene Ineve 0 only n ly t w en t yh fo tour u r caucasians anitress t ink n g he li e d death ea 1 s brenc ce ne at t 9 the pils were brought on tho round ground in wooden e ager said mr air Os oswald mich of 0 t them honi wait waa conveyed to tile hie tent lent where we were sitting and to him was read tile death Avar tant after ills his ide identity nitty bad been the mandarin that ahat read th warrant stuck an arrow th ronzil it and pinned the paper to in the back of the pil pilione boners rs coat after this t the he doomed men V were ere led ito the ground i chere here they acie to die dic five patches ca of turf had boen cut and in each indentation ii a man mail knelt when V hen oil all wv wi i lit in readiness the court rf of accompanied ly by the british cont contingent incent find and the iho foreign consular con enn Fular sular emerged front from the tent and took look up tip a a poulan in front of the esmas then arild nn an impressive silence the crimes of the con damned d aneil men acre d to 0 o ill hie cowd aej the th penalty was proclaimed two aluna sold sol illers ler splendid examples of T physical development acted a as a execl they stood behind tho the five men each prisoner haviar his head on a block at a given woi woid d tile execl tion M nava advanced need not tile least sign olen of fear visible on tile the faces of th the e chinese heads were li 0 0 soon to fall the work of the executioners execution ers was waa very rapidly performed with one stroke of the ax tile the head wv ins sev ere d from ohp body and in just thre re s po cond 0 s ill the aidt k was waa malted in I 1 led tie the blood pulled from the neck of one on man for twelve tn elvo eind a halt min antei after tho the fatal blow had been dealt after tile hie execution the crowds behind tile ilie soldiery rushed forward a and d throw millions of NIS bits of bw ulu into llie lie square this was waa following out nut 0 a of the country to tit the effe effect 0 thil that tho the departed are likely to prow grow hungry on their jhc thc lr long lon lourney journey unless a property properly supplied with food at tile the mut m ut the 1 heads ea if the e live five ringleaders ring leaders were placed in buckets which were cut go flo as to give a full view of ghastly contents and the buckets were hung up tip on the 7 roo 00 chow badge where they remained on exhibition for or ero days thin then they wore were taken to ku ahn chens the scene of the of the ten chowlan girls and were hung hun on trees whore where they are arc probably to demoe one of tho the heads means immediate death to th offender the action had a great moral effect on oil the chinese and I 1 think it will trill be a jonir time before there will bo be murderous interference with the missionaries ml ion aries tile the mission where the massacre nl q sacre mccu occurred Is 1 still clowd but it li Is fald that it N will III be reopened in the spring |
