"I would rather be shot. If I sin whipped I will kill the Obief." The prisoner was sent to the Arsenal where it is not unlikely his request will be complied with.
Chang Chi-yun, according to a local Chinese paper, is a detective of the Chinese constabulary force. Information was lodged against him alleging that he had received bribes and that he had influenced other members of the constabulary to give protection to the "Rua Hui" gamblers. Accordingly he wae arrested and brought up for trial before his superiors, Lieut.-General Hsu Kuo-liang, the Chief of the
trial. tone personally conducting the The detective was found guilty and General Hsu ordered two hundred blows to be inflicted upon the acoused. This sentence was about to be carried out when the condemned detective loudly protested against the sentence, proclaiming his innocence of the charge. Finding these protests of no avail and seeing that the two hundred blows were about to be inflicted, Chang requested that he be shot instead, he feared he would have to kill his chief when he regained his liberty, if he was whipped.
He was not whipped. He sent to the Arsenal for th thorities there to deal with him.
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