A correspondent: from S0o-chow as follows:—The alleged marderer, Meng Chang- thas been Sounabelry" himeelf on ynestioned by the "Comision of Though the Court did not admit repor-tors, it transpires that the prisoner pleaded that the act was done ander Provocation, of Be Ded carres ander and been ill-trested by the husband of the mordored women, His Honour ssid that be did not believe that it war an sot of vengeance, and if 0, why did be not take his revenge on the husband himself, The man was sistent in his avowal. The Court: became impatient and ordered him to: be Issbed on the back. About 1,200 strokes had been administered, when be cried out for mercy, and agreed to confess his trae motive. He said that he bad been enamoured of the deceased Indy's beauty for a long time, bat his. day of the marder, in found that her' advances were always repulsed. On the
husband was away, so be resolved to make one more trial to win her, but she still repulsed him, and even threatened to report his designs to the husband. Thereupon partly urged on by his irrepressible rage and partly by fear of her execatiog her threat be killed her. After the commission of the crime, he tried to set the house on fire in the hops of destroying any trace of the crime and mislesding people to think that the woman was burnt to death. He concluded by throwing himself upon the mercy of the judge, pleading that the crime though
of frenzy and rage, He signed his us perpotceted i in a moment name and pat his finger-print on UN the sheet of paper on which his tree confession was written.
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