| Show CHINESE JUSTICE in a correspondence of recent date data to the pall mail gazette detailed accounts are given odthe of the methods metho deby by which perside aci iona in china accused ot of participation in ID the recent massacres ore re made to cou couf fose eaB vt when the court la Is ready the writer says laya the ac aused man is ie brought ID handcuffed he Is invariably althy in 10 appearance and has hai toe the wild sad and ghastly look of a starved mao man which he really it if the prisoner prie oner proceedings by wearing that he be was wai nowhere near the scene oi of the massacre and then the torture begins the man la in first compelled to kneel with his hia bare knees upon a coil of chain his hie head bead to la dragged back and hla his pigtail to la fastened in a rack high above hla bin head bead A pole to la then thrust hla his legs lega and two soldiers stand on each end of it crushing the wr wretches knees into the coll coil of chain the british consul could not stand this method of extracting testimony and insisted In that it be stopped this was done so ao tar far me as he be in the courtroom were concerned concern di but for an hour afterward th the 0 shrieks of the tormented primon 0 re could be heard coming from an adjacent con t room where the torture was continued when the magistrates wanted to hear the confession of a tortured man toe prisoner was brought baen into the courtroom if he be held back his hia confession a threat to resume the torture was waa sufficient to cause him to tell all he be knew besides the torture described bed the prisoners were beaten with bamboo sticks until their yells yella were horrible to hear bear one prisoner appeared in the courtroom unable to walk from a beating he had bad received and another was on unable hie to kneel because hie bla knees had been broken by the chain links and his thighs had bad been lacerated by strokes of bamboo akin the me midst of such misery cakes fruita tea rod and wines were served and pai taken of by the native of officers fleere who could not understand why the foreign ers era present rubbed these delicacies aside abide refusing to touch them it Is well known that such jurisprudence la Is common in mongolian courts of it is evident enough that it baris bara the accused wretches from proving their innocence for if they are accused they sire are doomed inse inas much as confession and death are about the only escape possible poa sible from worse than death in the present instance there to ia not the slightest guaranty that the tor for lured and condemned prisoners are the they way may b bw persona persone guilty of no other crime than having incurred the displeasure of the mandarins and being on that hat account considered proper substitutes for the real crim lost inanc but it la Is bilta time the foreign representatives in china see to it that the justice they demand in the name of civilization to la not thus bua fla fis grantly out outraged ragoo |
