Ogden Daily Standard | 1903-05-09 | Page 11 | Snapshot of Chinese Execution Section

SNAPSHOT OF CHINESE EXECUTION j s I 1 T ii I 1 U T 15 1 rs I 1 t A 1 jj i fief 5 3 i lill T R i ra jv cr p I 1 w i v i ya r T X it JS ys SK 1 lii li i SMS siSI ai B ayi jat 8 ofis s ok this photograph shows the method of decapitation of criminals tn china it was taken by captain harold dammond nineteenth infantry U 3 A during the execution of nine members 0 a band of robbers be il B the foreign occupation of the city in 1900 1001 the headsman Is shown pushing the victims bead as close to the ground as possible two 0 his assistants are pulling backon back on each arm and another wearing the leather apron covered with blood has fastened a stout cord around the back of the head and under the coin and Is rolling the bead forward these opposite forces the neck to such an extent that tb muscles re terr tense and the bead cadi be severed at one blowout the halfe the knife can be been in tha hand of another asal stant jat behind the headsman the execution were public and were witnessed by large crowds i when th sah of amry lane in 1873 he the ecord secord S price of for hj box