The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-02-02
CnlNNS STRINGENT LAWS.
SEVERE MEASURES FOR THE PUNISH
weNT or CRIMINALS

land Where the Laws Are tnforced WIN
No sppcais or DELAYS for Rich or rocr.
4 Small Percentage Of criminais-Ban-
ishment and whipping.
Arthur Mack. ex-chicf Of the Shanghai de-
fecsivo force. asserts that while +-~ina has
,l.nniation 81 over $1,000 600, yet the crimi-
rai element In proportion TO numbers Is less
tlan 10 t,cr cont Of what 10 is IN the Chinese
.rerter of San Francisco. lie accounts Tor
ili. hy the grcofer stringcncy Of the laws for
Gil, Punishment Of crime in China and tho
fr,ator certainty Of their administration. In
moot Of this be has furnished The Alta with
a., following extracts from the Chinese penal
colo. 81 which be POSSESSES what he claims 70
D. the only English translation 10 lie found
s.i.lo q China.
zoSa1a ,re ft1 YpS7f,'kNT.
AS 70 tho selling Of female children slaves
Chinese law provides that any one who de-
falns n fugitive chill. or sells child Tor a
slave. shall receive ninety blows and two and
n half wears, Punishment n a female child
/. eoH for marriage, tho seller gets eighty
h'ows ard two and a half years banishmcnt
4 barhorcr ofz0 bbcIs or a receiver OF stolen
booty. even though not participant m the
principal crime is bchcadcd
ANY wiifnl damage 90 crops is punished as
theft. end the person or persons causing the
damage must make good the full amount OF
the DAMAGE
All AGED or infrm persons must be e'rcd
for. and upon complaint being made 70
n,aniarin De must provide food for the desu'
...e ovcl md thoss who have no 'ativcS
7...f..f Of his duty Is reward uty
blows
g,ramv Is punished with ninety blows and
the marriage is null
Ira man elects his son-in-law the punish
mon, is one hundred blows, and If the wife
consents She also gets one hundred blows.
Whoever marries when his father. mother
craoAfathcr or grandmother Is in jail gets
eighty blows. unless hy special command OIL
such parent ia which case there shall be no
feast Marrying one Of the same name Is
ru.i.bcd bv sixty blows forcibiy taxing
NV, IA woman and marrying her is punished
by the capior being strangled, and n thecaP
f0f gives her 20 another person the punish.
men; is tho samo. Amy government Official
marrying "a inu 1rIan, comedian or one beio"
lissfefiou GETS sixty blows and tho marriage
issol. a priest marrying gets eighty blows
aud is expelled
4 rrincinal IN tho crime OF murder or at
forp,o.l murder. with a subsequent design 10
,osnele Tho body OF divide the limbs OF per.
son. shall suffer death by slow and painful
rroccss This consists in cutting OIL hand
ibcn n loy. then an ear. then taking out an
eve. then scooping piece OF flesh from the
loir and so on until lie is extinct, when the
.ortss is cut % pieces and made away WIN
Tho murdorcr's wives, sons and all inmates
of hi. house. although innocent, shall be per
r.fuaily banishei 1900 ii, or about 1OO miles.
Acce,sorios contributing 10 the crime OF muir
asriu Tie slightest manner shall be Deheaded.
Other accessories. VINO neither contributed
nor shared In the crime, but merely Knew OF
iiscofionnlatci execution shall bo punished
~ ordinary accessories by being beheaded.
ia murder is planned, but no person killed
or WOUNDED. the principal shall be Oeheaaeu
and nli his relntivcs banishci Any person
who gives Information Of a crime or con
fomplatcl crime shall receive from the gov
eminent twenty ounces Of silver
ANY person or persons rearing venomou
animals or preparing poisonous drugs whici
arc 20 De usel 20 kill person, although DC
,er.ou may have been injured, shall be be
headed Ihe property Of any person guilty
~ flis crime or violation Of law shall be for
s.isol I'D the government, End all his relatives
or inmates of his house, although innocent
shall De hanishei 5000 d. or 1900 miles.
Practitioners Of medicine, or any person
who nreiends % be practitioner, who cause
auqfi.nts death. or injure patient or cd
minister drugs with a puncture or needle
and thereby kiu or wound patient, shall be
summoned before magistrate, who shall call
in other reputable practitioners, and II II
shall appear o. be an error the practitioner
may io allowed 81 redeem himself OF the
charge by giving up his practice forever II
d practitioner aggrayate complaint 70 eA
tort more money, the fee so eXtorted snail be
considered stolen and punishment inflicted m
uraporiion TO the amount obtained or at
tempted 90 beob;aincd. II patient dies and
lie practitioner who attended the deceased
isshoun to have employed improper methods,
flcuractiti0ner shall be beheaded.
Any one who occasions death from fright
or violent threats, or alarms another 70 such
"a degree that the frightened person kills him
SELF shall. when reasonable grounds are shown
10 have existed on the part Of the suicide, be
punished with 100 blows. Any government
officer who shall do this or attempt to do it
shall receive the same punishment and be
obliged % pay the family Of the suicide ten
ounces Of silver. II any person threaten or
frghien an older relative so that the latter
commits suicide, the junior 50 offending shall
be stranslei.
III any prisoner resists an officer and strikes
the latter 30 as 20 draw blood the offender
shall be grangled II criminal who resists
an officer is armed, and the officer kills hun
20 secure his person. or If a criminal escapes
from prison or Is killed while being pursued,
orifa runaway criminal destroys himself,
the officer shall in no wise be answerable for
tho prisoners death I'm any case where a
criminal is killed, where Che odense charged
AGAINST him was punishable with capital pun
i.hment, aud the officer bad no right TO as
sau,t or wound him, the punishment OF the
police officer shall not in any case exceed lOO
blows
II q prisoner releases any other prisoners.
~ Fl DE attempts it, he makes himself liable
% the punishment of the most guilty Of those
who escape or try 20 escape, provided the
runi-lmant shall not exceed 100 blows anu
.anisln,eut for 5000 il, OF 1000 miles L.
enc or more prisoners in prison rise against
their keepers. and thus effect an escape, they
shall b. behcadel, no matter what their
previous o0euse may have been.
Thesc are but q few samples Of the Chinese
laws. tie whole code of China being brief
and 10 the point The trials there are before
magistrates, and decision is final, no oppor
tuuity for appeal being provided for As O
ruio punishment follows conviction within q
very few day&-San Francisco Alta.