Wong Ttung-ho, President of the Board of Revenue, and Hwai T'a-pu, President of the Court of Censors, report the result, of their investigation of a case in which the Supervising Censor Hung Liang-pain represented to the Throne that the trial ofa woman of the maiden name of Yung, condemned: at the Autumn Assizes to rangulation,. had not been conducted in a sufficiently thorough manner by the Board of Punishments. we cireumstances of the case are briefly us follows. Kwei Ch'éng was a private in a corps of Mongol Guards at Lantionch'ang near Peking. His wife, whose maiden name was Yung, aged 23 years, was according to her own evidence, taken in March 1890, by her husband's friend Pao Huan, an ex-private in the Manchu Guards, to Peking, to look for employment. Pao Huan, however, sold her as a concubine to a member of the Imperial clan, named Wen. She, finding herself deceived, ran away in February 1891, and went back to Lantiench'ang. "She and her husband brought before the General's Court (she having made a charge, which she now acknowledges to have been false, against her husband of having sold her to life of shame). Her husband died. while in custody from the effects of poison, how taken she knows not.
"20 Huan's story is somewhat different. He asserts that there were criminal relations between himself and the woman Yung, and that she consented to go to Peking with him, and afterwards to be sold as a concubine. Her husband, however, knew nothing of the matter. Abund-aut evidence was brought which proved that the woman Yung was not the virtuous and injured wife she represented herself to be. After coming to Peking she had been sold to a brothel, and remained there some time. Again, when taken to the man Weén's house she had her hair arranged in the style of an unmarried girl, made no objection to the move, and allowed herself to be called by a girl's name.
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