St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-03-16
Chinese Villagers Take a Ter
rible Revenge on a Mup-
derOus Band.
The Civilians Descend on the
Outlaws and Kill All
but Two.
These Worthless Treated to q
Most Horrible Form OF
Death.
After Being Staked Down
Their Hearts Are Cut
Out.

rSAN FRANCISCO, March Is. - The
steamship City of Rio de Janeiro ar
we'd oday from Yokohama and Hong
Kong. A Yokohama paper prints the
following account of the determination
OF band of pirates in Chinese village.
On the 18th of January two piratical
craft having run into one OF the numer-
Gus Inlets in the vicinity of the city of
Shehpu called Fan Tu for shelter, some
OF the pirates landed oStensibly for the
purpose off making few purchases,
but most likely to see whether any
business" could be done in their par
ticular calling. Probably the ruflians
thought that they and their iunks were
sufficiently disguised, and so thought
that, by merely informing the shops at
which they called that they were traders
who had run in tor temporary shelter.
they could allay suspicious concerning
their real calling But as Fan Tu had
suffered repeatedly from depredations
of the
Numerous Sea Pirates
along the coast of Cbekiang, and had
lost some of their number at the hands
of the desperadoes, it so happened that
some of the pirates VINO landed that day
were recognized by the inhabitants of
the village, who. however, held their
tongues while the pirates were in sight.
No sooner had they returned to their
junks than the alarm was silently
given, and the principal man of
the village Immediately called upon
two brothers who were officers
belonging to one of the regiments gar
risoning Ming No. AT consultation
held the brothers were asked to lead a
body of their fellow villagers who had
determined to wreak summary venge-
ance on theiI unwelcOme and fire.
quent visitors.
Accordingly 300 Well-armed villagers
surprised the pirates during the raging
of the storm Ill the early hours of the
morning. The two pirate
Junks Were Surrounded.
In another minute the two junks
sWarmed with the dark figures of the
villagers, who. amidst the shouts OF their
comrades OH the shore, burst open the
matches and floors of the cabins and
poured a stream of bullets upon the
fifty or sixty pirates who were huddled
together for warmth on the lower decks
of the junks. Thoroughly taken by sur
prise, hardly any resistance was made.
all of the pirates but two being
almost hacked into mincemeat by
the exasperated villagers who had
suffered so often before from pirates.
The two pirates who were not treated
this way, however, were to be made away
with in different manner. 1t seemed
that among the many villagers who had
been killed by the pirates on different
occasions there happened to be one who
was a son of the patriarch of the vii
lage.
At daylight the two pirates, escorted
by the whole community, were led to
the grave of the young man, and, after
being secured to couple of stakes, put
up for the purpose, two of the nearest
relatives of the dead man plunged their
knives into the breasts of the unlucky
pirates, and,
Ripping Open Their Bodies
extricated their hearts, which were then
put, Sm0king-hot, on plate and placed
on the table upon which were already
lighted candles and an incense burner.
While all this was going on the female
relatives of the deceased, dressed i'll
mourning eoloTs of white, were gathered
by the side of the grave, crying and
calling out to the spirit of the dead to
receive the sacrifice that was being
offered, as vengeance had been taken
on his murdererS. The offerings were
then left at the grave at tile END of the
CHASTITY cere monies, and the villagers
proceeded to ransack the piratical
junkS after having first thrown the
bodies overheard into the sea. The
plumber from the iunks. gold, silver,
cash and silks, Satins and rice. was then
equally divided among the families who
had ever suffered at tile hands of the
pirates previously, and, as a finale of the
last act of the tragedy, the junks were
towed into the streams ana set on fire
and burnt to the waters edge. The
bodies of the two victims of the sacrifice
were also thrown into the sea, while
their hearts were afterwards cooked
and eaten by the dead mans relatives