On Monday, at midnight, there were executed on the military parade ground, outside the Little South-gate of the native city, three persons, vis. two men and a woman. The men were strangled to death, but the woman was beheaded. It appeared that, when the sentence of death arrived in Shanghai from Peking at 8 o'clock on Monday morning, the Shanghai magistrate hay pened to be occupied in the Chingyi Collegs examining "students for the! licentiate degree, and so could not follow the strict letter of the law that an execution should take place within a couple duties at the College at about 11 o'clock jis Huang was released from his that night, no time was lost in carrying out The Provincial Judge appeared to be undecided whether the' woman deserved death or banishment for this, and so referred to Peking for advice, with the above result. The actual murderer, the Soochow last spring, Thy tee men, who amour, was summarily decapitated in suffered death by strangulation, appeared to have been accomplices, but did not lay hands on the victim when he was murdered, and the sentence with a lenient judge would have been cither five years' Imprisonment or exile for three years to distance of 3,000 li; but according to the Peking decision they we ordered to be strangled since the woman herself was to be beheaded. Had she actually assisted in her husband's murder she would, of course, have suffered by the ling chih process last spring, in company with her paramour.
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