The Supervising Censor of the Northern division of the city reports upon the outrageous conduct of certain members of the Imperial clan, aided by a gang of associates, all of whom he asks should be handed over to the Beard of Punishments for trial and punishment. On the 3ist of December last the police magistrate vf the northern district reported that at noon on the previous day an Imperial clansman namer Pw-jong had suddenly burst. into his office and alleged that some individual whose name he did not know had stolen a.wateh from him inthe Po-shun lane. He-asked that policemen should be sent with' him to arrest the thief, whom he would identify. He was ordered to present a petition and await a decision in the ordinary way. Instead, however, of listening to reason, he seized hold of the official, used very violent and abusive language, and smashed the bench, the seal stand, and other articles. On the evening of the same day, an Imperial clansman, named Ming-chu, carried off a young girl by force and' offered armed resistance to the police who attempted to rescue her. When these reports reached the Censor he immediately proceeded to the police office and verified the truth of the statement. He had P'u-jung brought before him and examined, but his evidence was utterly untrustworthy. The man made quite a scene in court and was handed over to the Imperial Clan Court. On the same day a woman named Kay brought a charge against Ming-chu for having abducted her daughter, a girl called Kao-hei-ya-erh, and stated that he had inflicted a wound upon her husband with a knife, The wounded man having been duly examined, Ming-chu was arrested and brought up for examination, He assumed very contumnacious attitude and when leaving the Court indulged in much abusive language. It being found impossible to conduct the investigation, the offender was sent to the Board of Punishments in the hope that a slight correction might be administered to him by way of deterrent. Instead, however, of having benefited by the warning, he collected a gang of associats in the neighbourhood of the execution ground and proceeded to acts of violence, abducting women and girls and levying blackmail upon the shopkeepers in the i The police Magistrate sent a number of policemen to watch his doings. They found that in broad daylight on the 14th January he collected x band of over 30 sawed followers and entered a number of shops in the neighbourhood, from which ho made a demand for money. Failing to obtain it in some instances, he and his followers bound the proprietors of the establishments and carried them to mn unfrequented house where they made them write out promissory notes dated some 1 back. They only obtained th release by paying a ransoin_ of 50 and promising, on pain of d meet the notes in full within a limit of 10 days. These are merely the outrages which came to light, but many others of a still graver nature were perpetrated upon people who were afraid to make any complaint. As the case is one which affects members of the Imperial Clan Court, the memorialist cannot deal with it in his own Court and he therefore asks that the offend dors should be handed over to the Board Punishments where they are to have the benefit of a joint trial by the Chinese and Manci nuthorties.—Kesript already pubished.
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