On receipt of the news that the Sungpu prisoners had been taken to Huangehow, native friend went down to that city the hope of picking up a few particulars about them. He found there were ten altogether, namely, the six mentioned in iny last letter, and'the four men who are stated in the Macheny magistrate's despatch to have been bound by the foreigners before the riot took place, These had been brought on from Macheng. They were
suanéis, and publicly in the Examination still Being examined, both privately in the Hall, before a large bench of mandarins, and in the presence of hundreds of the Huangehow people. Li Tuotai was there again, the Huaugchow prefect, the Macheng district magistrate, and several deputies. Also Li Kia-chung was there, this time in the character of an accused person, although not as yet treated as an ordinary prisoner. On behalf of the authorities it is represented that they were under the necessity of treating him as one of themselves at Sungpu, and inviting him to assist in the enquiry otherwise they would never have got him at all, or having got him, his followers, who are very numerous, would have attern a rescue; byt now they have deceived him ted into coming to Huangchow they can treat him differently. Our friend brings reports of what went on at two sittings of the Court, one held in the daytime and the other at night—at the latter he was present personally. To begin with this. The persons under examination were the two men named Ho who had been assisting the missionaries. They were heavily ironed on the legs and had been beaten, but not hooked through the collar-bone'as previously reported. The method of this operation is, they have a chain terminating in a sharpened © shaped hook which they hook through the flesh nearly round the clavicle, and then hammer it close. It seems to be a new punishment.
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