'A. fow weeks ago: two criminals were executed—cn uncle and his: nephow. The official did not appear on the scene, but entrusted the affair to his underlings. The nephew was decapitated and the uncle was "to "have been strangled. -No preparation had been made for this and the underlings
they had a rope that age or poor. had it all their own my. To begin with, material in its make-up did not bear stretching taut and in the strangling operation it broke several times. To add to the -poor times: slackened the rope. Thus. he criminal's suffering the underlings several was two or three hours in being done to death. Surely in'this late age of the world any official. that allows such cruelty or a ernment that tolerates: such an official leserves to suffer the process of lingch'i and this not in a "lingering" fashion.
'15th January.
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