To the Editor of the "Norta-Cuina Dairy News.
Sin,—Your paper records today a case of cruelty to a slave Cases of er quite commer regarded as 1 than animals. el to shaves are they usually are Some months ago a slave girl, aged 13, was beaten tou death by her mistress, a Cantonese woman siding in Chapei. Owing fact that this woman ha a relative in the Nantao Court, and also through the expenditures of some hundreds of dollars judiciously buted amoring the proper parties, only a farcical inquest was held. The. woman claimed that the slave had committed suicide. The Chinese coroner merely took a glance at the corpse—which was clothed to hid the bruises (and oven if they were not hidden the official would have been stricken with temporary blindness by the glare of ' the dollars)—and ordered its burial.
There was much talk at. first among the Chinese neighbours of volunteering © as witnesses in order to have the woman severely punished, but owing either to their having also' been bribed or to. their suffering from cold feat" or to some other unknown reason, none of them eventually took up the cause of the murdered slave.
Tf this is the way that Chinese authorities show justice to their own people, what will it, be should they have jurisdiction over foreigners (which Heaven forbid) in the unthinkable event of—extraterritoriality being whalished? Your paper has given innumerable instances of the corruptness of all grades of Chinese officials, so T need say no more.
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Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.