The runners and military police of Sungkiang while on some other teach recently camencross and arrested two notorious pirate chiefs, natives of Kiangpeh, on the north bank of the Yangtze, why had been wanted for a long time for several big cases." They were immediately brought before the Chehsien of Sungkiang but alt hough ordered. to kneel om sharp chains and thoroughly beaten would not acknowledge their crimes. Finally, the Chehsien ordered the chains to be heated and while kneeling on them to apply burning **joss-sticks" down their backs, but it was not until over half an hour had elapsed that one of them unable any longer to brat the torture confessed jis crimes whilst the other still held on defiantly. At this juncture sume of the men formerly arrested and who had pointed out these two as their lenders were brought before the Court to face the latter, whereupon T'ai who had until now held out, lowered his head and said Uhat he would confess since these wit-ses were members of his gang. The whole purty will be sent soon to Soochow for their final trial before the Provincial Judge, and the chances are that they: will be decapitated at that city next August.
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