The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-10-04

7,iaoes- Horrible Exposures OF the
Heads of Victims.
From the New York Sun.
yor neopIe regard the great eventual
49, 9TH less dread than the Chinese
Tseir nerves survive shocks which would
- 70 fatal to more finely organized
Pie and they practice methods of self
F,olatiou for unselhsh ends inconceiv-
s-o N the western mind. Such Gus
o., for example, as substituting ones
4 rf,o he executed in consideration of
4 ,rtain sum of money, that the family
4 Wv he left enriched and independent, is
5arond our ken, and the liberation of it is
4 trrossible Of understanding.
II IS a queer anomaly that these
4 ,siatics inhict, through their laws,
3 4s,btful punishments of torture and
4 5sstb and, on the slightest provocation,
4 Imam blood is poured out like water,
4 rbi,e in their social relations they are
n Lind-hearted and good-natured, and the
A ,boroughly brutal, hardened ruffian who
4 hats his wife and starves his children is
NOTABLY rarer in Shanghai than in Shore
\ ditch.
4 Under the heading of death" in the
4 peraI Code come the several modes in
4 aicted A sliding scale of capital punish
nents IS used to mark their sense of the
VARYING Nervousness of murderous crimes.
I Far parricide, matricide and wholesale
murder. the sentence is usually that of
I cling Chin or "Ignominious and slow
4 death In ordinary cases execution
4 nv beheadiug is the common mode, and
4 s'iI another is strangulation. With the
4 sycentiOn of those cases of "hgh way
4 robbery. " and burglary with murder'
u and of rebellion and treason" in which
Il he guilty having been caught red
4 handed, the death penalty must be paid
4 within forty days, the criminals SEN
n fenced to death in Pekin and other cities
n Are executed in the autumn
Il The date is fixed by imperial edict and
4 is usually about ten days before the win
Il ter s0lstice 1t is then that the emperor
A proceeds to the Temple of Heaven to rem
4 der an account at the great altar of his
II past years stewardship of the power in
trusted to him as the one agent on
A earth of the most high in heaven"
In the general record of the imperial
Il acts is included a statement of the names
4 and crimes of those who have suffered
\ death by mis- will during the year. this
record being burned on the shrine, and its
4 contents thus waited up to the cogni-
zance of heaven.
Preceding this ceremonial, of course.
the wretched culprits have been tried be-
fore the board of punishments (or crimi-
nal court, where quiVering PROSTATE.
they have heard the fatal Ching Shin"
n folnd guilty. dropped out by the clerk.
There is no jury TO find the unfortunate
delinquents; there is no oath prefacing
the testimony Of witnesses; there is no
pleading by shreWd lawyers, but an auto
tOCratC condemnation, subject to no ap-
peal In spite of this, mercy is some
times shown. A criminal condemned to
death is saved from punishment if it be
proved that aged parents depend upon
him for support.
All prisoners look eagerly forward to
these trials They feel only Joyous relief
from the conclusions of them or the calm
81 certainty Of death. They are about TO
escape the indescribable horrors of
II Chinese prison. The filth and dirt of the
rooms, the brutality Of the jaiers, the
miserable diet, the entire absence of the
commonest sanitary arrangements, and
their beds more like strait-jackets,
with the vermin that infest every nook,
make any change welcome to the misera
bic culprits.
Among the tortures incidental to com
A Pu.sory confession is the sitting cage.
ms is strong box of heavy timOers
made Just the height of the shoulders of
me culprlt and just large enough TO hold
MN IN sitting or doubled-up position.
An opening at the top is made to encir-
n Gle the neck, the head being held without.
III TINS cramped position he is kept for
long hours until the pain is so great relief
nustcome ia Inconsistencies or a con-
lesson, 1t may be, to obtain physical ease.
Inc swinging pole" from which hangs
Iue prisoner suspended at one end by his
Yueue, MS arms bent backward, as also
his legs, at the other by his feet, gives
ltrlorce exquisite agony and leaves the
SUBJECT too lame, if not broken of bone
@uu Iaut OF slnew, to resist any demand
Tor tull confession.
Inc Triple Cangue," seemingly so
simple, IS severe enough in its heavy drag
vi the bones of the spine, as bleeding
ng lS ana Iacerated shoulders attest,
anne sWarmlng mosquitoes, pestilential
mes ana unrelenting unmentiOnables per
sS'ently torture, the collar being too wide
W permit the free use of the hands to
urI'e Them away.
erruaPS not least in pain is the "Chain
M. one sees some wretch, stripped of
n'S trousers, kneeliug with barred legs on
SCoIbo1 rusted chains He is supported
w. ~ man on either side with long pole
b tn aIuuec ms arms, which are bent be-
b b.nu nm A similar pole is placed in the
r oeu' OF ms knees, and on the ends of this
s .D,s me demons who torture stand and
Tyiian!,p pressing down the raw flesh OF the
I'm Sta on inns heap of jagged iron.
.,2Idhgulatlon is an honorable death,
Ilu very much mercy is thought to be
sto Ugu me condemned in permitting il in
doo au U! uecapltatiOn, because the method
NM Go uoV involve mutilation of the body,
AVN 10 the Chinese mind is the height
roou.ssiace IN death, since the body in
composing itself in the spirit world
Ing toit S0'' "0O O0io"5
,6pesGaptation comes next In this. as in
u mhGi1uer execution routine, the native
N"aIy ngures conspicuously.
sso m" yue morning of an execution may be
so5ida pToaching the ground a band Of
n ron|.It' surrounding number, perhaps
n bora4 miserable looking men chained
o ouuu 10 loot with length enough of cable
tnair W permit walking. Immediately on
iors al, arrival thousands Of morbid specta-
u tainl satuer around. The soldiery main
t6o '9 lue Gordon more closely now, for
No Cudlhs and shaCkles are removed and
sG ISoners have more freedom They
WIZ 9yatnu, or lie on the earth conyersiug
M M tuose who come near.
q hs.uey are now awaiting the decision Of
n p'-,- Una esty, who that morning has passed
T91 we llst Of sentences
sna aaeeinember in strolling among them
h65 , Tvy ue same time feeling ashamed to