Show IN CHINA io coi out of employ mant in pi hately formed a little company to make copper cash ind begin then operations for some reason by melting donn about eighty pounds of imperial copper coins the I 1 ad made but little progress in their secret trade having only mann fractured altogether some 10 coins equivalent to little more than 13 when they were captured tried and con damned accordia Accor dit g to the report tl e ringleader was sentenced to immediate decapitation for melting down coin of ue realm the next who had assisted in the of coining w as sentenced to decapitation after am while two others who lad polished the spurious coins and alm last who acted is bookkeeper were not as principals but as accas sones liable to transportation to turk castan and employ ment as slaves to troops there a fata beheld to be worse than immediate decapitation home other men who seem to have had with the coming itself but acted as domestic servants to the principals received sentence of three ears banishment and a hundred blow s each eftim ga elte |