Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 4, 1900, Page 19

November 1, 1900 a Wopyright, 1% h I G SHANGHAL, Sept. 12.--(Special Cot respondence of The Bee) Tl var | make the mixed courts a feature of every big Chinese city. They w be ¢ 1 ed to try all disputes between foreigne ind natives The Chinese in the fc cessions will be ! eign vill be neede The foreign conce on of Shang! How three times as large h It are European It has a mixe our th Chinese and foreign judge I'he Ame 1 judg is ust is the consul general he h o the legatior The native 1lge L man darin of the enth orde med W The law and which Chinese onl r rested \ practically Chine he Chinese judge bein allowed to have 1 own oW exXee} wh Europeans are interested I visited ) he othe Consul Ceneral Goo \ with 1 1 introduced me o M 1 W Il Jarche th inte ter of our cot who also ted and fattery, tha tkes the whole whoels of our cor of tea togethe bef room, and Judge said he hoped | of him on the ter be glad to do so if ther was to bhe a bamYooing dambooir the most com mon punishment here. Witnesses are bam booel to make them confe and it tl does not serve more terrible punishy are a Judge Wang replied that 1 be de lighted to oblige me, usun hour for bambeoing wa erno when he hoped 1 would return I am sorry, your honor dd I, “but 1 have an engagement at 4." Ah!" said the old Chincse mandarin, a he reflectively sipped his tea, “in tha \ perhaps 1 can fix it up this morning to you I have an old thief here who has not confessed, I will have him brought in near the close of the session and give him 200 blows to loosen his tongue, It will b Just before noon and you will have a fairly good light for your picture At this moment the officers told us that the court was ready and the old mandarin invited me to sit on the bench with him For two hours 1 watched thieve burglars, Kidnaper pirates and other dra «lin by policemen. They were pulled tleng in chains, jerked about by their quenes and made to get down upon their knees before us While there the judge examined them and the detectives and po- licemen gave evidence Sentences wers quickly passed. Some got as much as 306 blows of the bamboo, gome were sentenced to the cangue, others to imprisonment in chains and seme to hard !abor 1 d *the Camern, At last the end of the docket was reached and my victim was brought in. Two vil lainous-looking policemen in tall red hat and long red gowns pushed him forward holding him by the queue He trembled as he entered the room and fell on hi knees in front of the judge, who flercely demanded his confession The man pre tested his innocence, but Judge Wang, in what must have been to the prisoner a terrible tone, said “You are not telling (he truth; you ar guilty!" And then to the policeman “Give him the bamboo and make him con fess,' Upon this, two tall Chinese in red coats seized the prisoner and laid him flat on h face on the floor They pulled down h trousers One held him firmly by the shouldeis and another by the calves, so that his fat thighs showed in all their nakednes ““There is your picture,” said the judge as he ordered a policeman to move a lit- tle teakwood table to the opposite end of the room and clear out the visitors he- tween it and the man. I fixed my camera on the table, stepped off the distance he tween it and the criminal and set the shutter. The bambooer knelt down b hind him and raised his rod and at the first blow the picture was taken It proved to be a success and T used it as one of the illustrations of this letter After the bambooing began I would have stopped it if T could, but it was in court and this was impossible. It took four men to give the 200 blows, each man bringing down the bamboo fifty times on the hare thighs of the vietim. The bamloo was a strip of cane about two inches wide and five feet in length. It was as lithe as sole leatker, but so springy that it seemed to fly back upcn touching the flsh. The exe cutioners held it in both hands, bringing it down with a noise like a pistol cracl upon ore single spot on the man's thighs They never left this spot, hitting it exactly again and again, as they counted the strokes aloud. In the first ten strokes there was no change of color, although the man howled and groaned. After the twenty- fifth the flesh was red, and at the end of the second fifty it had turned black. When 125 were reached it was bleeding slightly the black line having extended out to a ring about the size of your palm. At the end the flesh to the depth of an inch was a jelly. By Chinese law no criminal can be pun- Justice in China--- Queer Court Customs he has confessed his guilt n dragged him t P POLICEMAN of the court upon his knee so that the board of the There was a hole in the top of s head tied by barefooted wide pantaloons to the thighs by strings fastened ht of his body rested on his bare knces sharp as though filed was » was then told that he would be let down almost started moaning made me sick. 'm pleture as I took it in wrote them v court room with a peacock behind a red-covered their hands » beneh upon his bare to uprights on legs into the stones. He cries and they in- v His toes have been pulled out so that the shins and the whole front of his are in contact with the stones and the nen are grinding them into the granite I ask the n s crime I'he o tell he is a of piracy, 1t hat 1 e will t ‘ He ‘ o 1 he ) 1 big water Hy 5 puf A\t 1 flesh and blood car ind it no onger, The prisoner nods hig head token f cor fon and the ofMcial p ooft I'hey looren hig hat ind he dr na heap on the floor They | little ink over each of his pal | press them flat down upon a heet of paper, we which some writir in Chi has printed These form | tture to hie confessfon If he should 1 he S CHAINED FOR STEALING DRUGS could be detected by means of them. The confession will be sent to the viceroy and his head be cut off a day or so later.” pecinlly for W Women are not favored by Chinese judges. In the court here I heard a num- ber of severe sentences pronounced, and at Canton one woman was punished with the clapper. This seems to be especially for women. It is made of two pieces of leather, each as thick as a harness tug, but a little wider. They are fastened to a handle in the middle. The clapper {8 not more than a foot long, but it is as deadly as though it were iron. It is used for pounding the cheeks and lips, often break- ing the jaws and knocking out the teeth The Cantcn woman was suspected of smug- gling opivm, but claimed to be innocent. The punishment was given to induce con fession br. John R. Hykes, the head of the American Bible society, once saw a fe- male thief treated to fifty strokes on the mouth with the clapper. He described the punishment to me. He said “One policeman held the woman's head back against his knees while another struck her across the mouth with the clap- per. Her lips bled at the first blow. After the fifth they began to swell and at the end they were fingers." thick as your three “Did she scream?” 1 asked “Of course she did,” replied Dr. Hykes. “Well, after that,” Dr. Hykes went on, ‘‘we saw man get 500 blows with the bamboo. This punishment was terrible, for the man's flesh was torn from his thighs. As I looked T said to Judge Tu, the mandarin In charge, ‘I don't see how you can etand it,’ “*‘Why not? Why not? he replled ‘They deserve 1t! They deserve it.' " In a further chat with Dr. Hykes he de- seribed a terrible punishment which he witnessed In Kukiang a few years ago Sald he: “I was riding on horseback on the walls of the city when 1 saw a crowd on the street below me. 1 stopped and some «( the men asked me to come down and see the fun, 1 did so and found the crowd was gathered about two wooden cages, each of which held a man, barcheaded, bare- foagted and disfigured with beatings. Their heads were upheld by shelves into which their necks fitted, so that their whole welght rested upon the toes. The shelves were fastened near the top of the cages, THE ILLUSTRATED BEE. crease the torture by rolling the pole under their feet back and forth upon his g0 that when they attempted to rest their they hung by the nech I'he | heen nte cd to de h in the robbery and ¢ rage Pasted or de were placards which wart | not to give them food or d 1 was in the middle of July, wh W intense Three days afte learned they were dead I'he Growing Bamboo ordinary inishment of t ver ntinued Dr. H when more tl ) blow e lack of filinl v, whict p f 1 preatest o with his fatber I he usuall 1 give him a pre the 15th of every month, as is th with good sons. One day his father tool Ihe murder cansed great o for parricide is here consider terrible of erime If a man Kills a parent not only himself, but all his neiel l relative re punished, The tied upon a cre and slowly Bt death Ihe ofMcials of the pr re degraded and the crime is an injur o the district for years to come. Whe the aboy riurder oceurred the leading men of the community hushed it up and Ked th family to perform the punichmoent I'here was o meeting of the murderer lan and | the result was a sentence that he he Luried alive. s own relatives dug the prave and his mother threw the dirt into the hole upon him and tramped it down with her feet." | L) No one but those who have studied the | Chinese can realize the horror with which | they look upon parricides and matricides | Nothing will excuse the Killing of father | or mother by the child In the Pekin Ga zette T find numerous instances of lunaties who have killed their parents and heen sliced to death. In this slicing not only | nishments for Parvicides, the flesh cut away bit by bit, but the vie tim is, to a large eoxtent Kinned alive One of the first cuts is acr the middle of the forchead, after which the exeen tioneer take the Kin and rips it off Next the cheel are torn off, then the mrm hreast thighs and calve il cut by cut, the skin being torn away until the man is dead Aceidents are no excuse for such kil ing. It was only two years ago that a boy | of 8 living in a little town about twenty mile from Shanghai was plaving with stool He was tossing it up in the alr when his mother ran out of the hut and it accidentally fell upon her head and killed her. According to the law the old est age at which the punishment of slicing to death can be inflicted is 16, You would think they would have let the hoy free They did not He was put at once in prison and will be kept there until he reaches 16 when the punishment will be inflicted. He ha IX years more to wait I have never seen a Chinese execution and do nct envy any one the sight The brutality of the excentioner is beyond con ception A missionary told me how he re cently saw the heads of five rohbers cut off. There were two executioners,” sald he “one an expert, the other an amateur, The word of the expert went through the human necks as though through cheese but the amateur bungled his work Th robhers were pl d on their knees with their heads outstretehed As the sword cut through the necks the heads fell to the ground, some rolling twenty feet away The blood spurted out in great jets from the bodies, which, strange to say, still re mained on their knee When all the heads were off 1 asked if I might not go ivside the line and look. The magistrate said, 'Of course; why not? and 1 went in ! pointed to one bhody and (Continued on Eighth Page.) 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