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Show . Torturing Chinamen. San Francisco, May 9. Shanghai newspapers news-papers which arrived by the Orient yesterday yester-day contain full accounts of the atrocious torture of Chinese suspected of being accomplices ac-complices of Mason in his foolish scheme of rebellion against the government. The poor wretches who were accused declared that they were simply hired by Mason and knew nothiug of his plot. An English reporter re-porter got into the prison and some one tortured the man. His legs were paralyzed from the torture: The legs of another man were broken. Two other men who had been just removed from the torture chamber could not be seen. The foreign consuls at Shanghai appealed to the government to suppress the hideous cruelty. |