Three or four days ago a man of about thirty years and his wife quarrelled with his mother and he her with the ancestral tablet. not I, but my father hours, swallowed opium and died.
The neighbours reported the matter to the authorities who at once had the couple arrested, and yesterday they were both executed, he by beheading and she, after being made to witness his death, by the slow process (called Chinese, "Ling-tez" and "Bah-dao seems that she has made life misery for the mother for a long, time past.
But it is certainly rather strange that in the nineteenth year of the Republic punishment by the "slow. process," which had been abolished by the Manchu government, should be thus revived. I believe that the lea is "for this time only" as the crime was so atrocious. I am told by those who saw, that the streets, even the motor road, were simply)
umed with people to see the two criminals who were paraded through the main thorough-fares before going to the execution ground out-_ ide the outer North Gate of the ty. Judging from what folks say, the general opinion is that for such mes as this.no punishment is too severe, and the action of the authorities is approved.
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