Phe sawe high oficial reports that in the semi-rising of a band of sectarians of the province on the 9th of October 1892, the head of the movement being a man who styled himself the "King of the South," but which on account of the vigilance of the provincial troops was unable to make any headway, and so was confined to desultory robberies and pillage, the officials of the infested districts have been able to capture at different times no less than eighteen of the most important member of the band. A trial of the men by their various captors proved that fifteen of them had either been taken red-handed or had confessed to having been implicated in some robbery or another, with arms in their hands, while the other three had been inveigled into joining the band and on the whole were so far clean-handed as that they had not joined in any robbery although they had' been given some share of the plunder. In view of these circumstances, memorialist therefore commanded the immediate decapitation of the fifteen sectarians with exposure of their heads at the different scenes of their crimes, and that the other thicee should be banished to some distant spot afier a certain period of incarceration during which time they were to be fastened each to a heavy piece of granite chained to their ankles, which they were forced to carry in their hands if they desired to walk about.—Rescript: Let the Board of Punishments take note.
4th October.
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