According to a report made to the Gorvernor of Formosa by the colonel stationed at Kagee, a certain captain locked up a prisoner last autumn. After two months and a half he suddenly released the man, who died of disease the same night, the cause of his sickness being manifestly the confinement to which he had been subjected. It is conceded that the captain was responsible for the protection of the locality where he lived against robbers, and the man whom he shut up was a person of bad character. But he ought to have handed over his prisoner to the civil authorities and not have kept him in detention for any lengthened period.
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