Show CHIEN WAS STRANGLES Executioners Beat Him for Four Hours and Then Yielded to His Plea to Bo Killed Peking Aug C Edward T Williams the Chinese secretary of the United States legation has made an extensive InvestigatIon Into the execution of I Shen Chien the reformist Journalist who was put to death by order of the Empress Dowager July 31st and has handed Minister Conger a report proving prov-ing that the executioners after beating Chien for three or four hours despaired of being able to t fulfill thc Dowager Empresss orders and Sleldlng to Shens pleadings to end his misery strangled him with their hands I I |