Take another instance: a mem ber of the Wesleyan Methodist) Church who is very poor (and I might say "is lazy as he is poor) goes about in much worn clothes and has a sort of hangdog about him. A neighbour one day missed an article of clothing. Merely on the grounds of the clothing and the locks and without. a throd of evidence, the neighbour ran the shabbily dressed man into the police court. The prisoner pleaded not guilty. Lacking other evidence, the magistrate ordered the prisoner's hands to be tied behind his back and then the rope to be thrown over a beam and the body drawn off the ground sus. pended on the twisted wrists. He still denied the accusation so he was kept in this position (he himself thinks) over an hour. At last the pain wis so unendurable that he "confessed" and said where the stolen property could be found. The confession brought relief. But he was marched off to the spot. On arrival, there was found to be no such person and he acknowledged to the police that he had lied.
The case was passed on to another court—and tried in the same way. This time the cries of the sufferer procured him a speedier release and he was discharged. The action of these two magistrates was illegal. The present code does not allow of examination by torture. Of course, western nations would not abandon extrality as long as the Chinese code permitted torture. Messrs. Sze and Koo and others content themselves by saying that the code is altered. They omit the very pertinent fact that the administration is unaltered.
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