(2) A Memorial by the G t New Dominion, Liu Chin-tang reporting the sentence passed in w case of mi In Ssu-lo Chou lived a turbaned mussulman, 'a Inbouring man of the name of Pa-tu. Close by dwelt one Rich-mush and his wife Tu-tichon. Pa-tu had constant opportunities of seeing Tu-ti-han and one day a year ago succeeded in seducing her without its coming to knowledge of the husband. A month afterwards, one morning after breakfast, Tu-ti-han went to Pa-tu's house to borrow a knife. Pa-tu happening to be alone immediately dragged her into a room. Tieh-mush coming home again, and not finding his wife, went. across to look for her. Going into the house ho caught the couple in the actual commission of adultery. He was unable to arrest Pa-tu, who fled away, but Bicking up a Imife he seized his wife and cut off her back hair. She, however, succeeded in getting the knife away from'him. He then took a stick which was lying at hand and beat her violently all over the body. The woman's mother and brother, hearing the noise, came in and found her lying on the floor. They carried her home, but next day she died. "The brother then' reported the case to the police. Pa-tu was arrested, and confessed the whole truth. The Memorialist finds it is the law that, when a husband discovers his wife committing adultery and kills her on the spot, but the adulterer escapes and is afterwards arrested and confesses the offence, the adulterer should be condemned to strangulation after the ordinary delay, and the husband punished with eighty blows. He has, therefore, passed sentence in this case, in accordance with the law as above quoted.—Referred by Rescript to the Board of Punishments.
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