OFFICIAL, The wife of a lieutenant named Ku Te-sheng, stationed in the province of Yunnan, was recently charged with kidnap, under the following circun.stances. far from their official residence lived a man nained Hu Shao-yun, whose daughter often assisted Madame Ku in her household work, This girl had been engaged from her childhood to a man named Li, and a day had actually been fixed for the marriage, The girl, however, objected to Li on the ground that he was suffering from contagious disease and confided her adjections to Madame Ku who advised her to abscond to the provincial capital and there marry a brother of her own. Two or three days before the time appointed for the marriage, the girl was taken to the provincial capital by Madame Ku's mother, in whose house she was to stay until she became the wife of her son, The Li family however ascertained what had happened and at their instance she was arrested snd brought back to her home. Madame Ku, as being the chief mover in the matter, and used strong language to the girl's was sentenced to be banished to a distance of 4,000 li, while her mother and the girl were each to suffer banishment for three years and to receive 100 blows. 'They will however, receive pardon in virtue of the amnesty which was recently proclaimed, and the girl will become the wife of the man Li. The lieutenant is acquitted of any compli city in his wife's offence, but has been cashiered' for not having exercised more strict surveillance over her conduct.
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