The Arizona sentinel., 1885-12-26
HANGING BY WHOLESALE.

An Old Tar's Yarn About an Execution in Which Ninety-Three Chinamen Took Part.
 ''It was along about '67 that shipped in the German bark La Mona, bound from Bombay to Shanghai. We stopped on the way at Hue, where we took on board party of twenty-three Chinese merchants. They had been to Hue to dispose of their goods and were return ing to Hong Kong with their proceeds. All went well until off the island of Hainan, when we got becalmed and lay floating around under the tropical sun without breath of air.
 ''Along about three in the afternoon our lookout deserted sail, which soon developed into fleet of sixteen Chinese junks, whose decks, upon a nearer ap- proach, could be seen covered with men, which told us, without need of a flag, that they were pirates. Thinking our selves lost, as we were unarmed, but de- termined to hang on to life as long as possible, we all made for between decks and slowed ourselves away in the cargo. We soon heard the junks come along side, the trampling of feet overhead, the mailing down of the matches, a dull, grating noise, and all was still.
 Presently we could hear the rush of water, the pirates having scuttled the bark by boring-which accounted for the grating-intending to drown us like rats in trap. We made a rush for the hatch, but could not move it. We suc- ceeded, however, in breaking through the bulk-head that led to the forecaStle and reached the deck. The pirates had taken the Chinese passengers and all of our boats except leaky one, which, af- ter nasty patching, we jumped into, lowered away, and pulled for the shore, only a mile off There we were met by bowling mob, who caught, beat us, and, stripping us of every stitch of cloth ing, drove us out of the village, so that we were obliged to tramp, with the rays of the burning sun blistering our backs, about five miles to the town of Hainan, on the other side of the island. We went directly to the house of the Ameri- can Consul, who received us kindly, fur lIlSlICu uS nltu ClOllllilSSs Islcll6u lO OuI story, and sent for the Captain of the United States steamer Ashenlot, which was lying in the harbor.
 'He took us on board, steamed up to Hong Kong, sent us to the hospital, and in company with the United States steamer Piscataqua went back to Hainan, raided the village in which we had been so ill-treated, and which turned out to be the pirates stronghold, captured about five hundred Chinamen and brought them back to Hong Kong, sent them ashore, and had them file past me and my mates for Identification. We picked out ninety-three of them who were taken back on board the vessels.
 1.-The next morning while sitting on the hospital piazza, which overlooked the habor, we heard the sunrise gun, the shrill whistle of the boatswain, saw the ensigns fly to the peaks, and the next moment, as if by magic, from the yard arm of the two men-of-war hung the ninety-three Chinamen. There they hung for half an hour, swaying in the breeze, a terrible example to evil-doors, when they were lowered and the bodies given to their friends.
 ''There ain't any such hangings now adays," concluded the old tar, ''but I never want to see such a sight again. It makes my blood creep every time I think of it, and l shall never forget it till my dying day. Chicago Nes0S.