THE HOLLYWOOD ROAD HOLOCAUST.
CHARGES OF MURDER AND ARBOR, The hexing of the case in which Chan Chung and Tear 'op were charged with murder and arson in connection with the firest No. 108. Hollywood Road, wherein several persons were burnt to death, was continued before Mr. H. H: J. Gompertz at the Police Court yester day. F. J. Badelny, aptain-Superinteu- dent if Police, prosecuted, and Mr. Hursthonso for Meta, Donnyx and Rowley's office) --ropresented thas Meiji Fice Insurance Company
Prisoners were not defended.
CORRESPONDENCE,
A DUSTBIN PROBLEM.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY PREED,
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY Jan, 1906,
2nd February.” FIR-ahall be glad if you will allow me a small space in your valuable paper to reproduce the onelessd entting from Lloyd's News, which is interesting to your readers and to the community at large-
An important case relating to the collection of one refuge came before the Spelthorne magis trata at Sanbary. The Teddington Urban District Council 10ptly decided to pass daily collection of dust, and oireal rised housebeklera requesting themeto place their dustbins in front of their houses. Mr. George Biddel, of The HAWLIAUZUR
Taney-purk road, Leadwgton. refused to comply with this police, maintaining that it was the duty of the council to take the
SUPREME COURT.
Thursday, 2nd Fobriety.
IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION.
BEFORE HIS HONOUR MR. T. SERCOMBE SMITH (PUISNE JUDGE).
LAU WAN KUT V. TSUI KWAI,
Hearing resumed in this action, in which the pkirti daimed 321, duzaages, and $17.70 costs, the damages being value of the deficiency of certain goods which the defendant under took to carry from Chan Taus fo Hongkong bir. H. A. Harding appeared for the plaintiff, Io Fo, Chist Chinese Detective, declared: On
and Mr. R. F. C. Master (of Messrs Johnson, Stoks and Master) for the defmudant, the morning of the 12th ult. at 2.15 am. I was
The plaintiff having closed his case, witnessing in a chair going from West to East. Just as I reached No. 170, Hellywood Road, I heard
were called for the defence. The junk master Someone calling out Fire. Ho cailed out two eft from the backs of his promises. The asid-I did not know the plaintiff's cargo was or the times. I then saw a man standing council during their respQu8lMlity, #nd con-rice; we are not allowed to carry rica out of ontside the door of No. 168. I looked in endently were summoned by Mr. Bidell for failing to fulfil their obligations under section saw that all was in darkness. I caught ld of 42 of the Public Health Act, 1875. The the man who shouted “Firo," Thes I saw fire council'e representative contonded that that baru up budhienly inside No 168. The man I authority euld pass a resolution is at all that they would not collect ang refuse at all. In imp sing a nominal five of Se, the chairman magistratos considered the
seized was the first defendat, I afterwards saw the see and defendant running out of No. 168. I also caught hold of him
I then
Bald the
Chin
Ou the 10th ult, when we got as far as tapauimus, some rice loskod cat. There was s strong wind which made the junk hoel over and the cargo shift. Le 5s, a man in my employ resives and dolites general cargo. Rice is not included in general cargo, and Le had no
Cross-examined-My consigues-in-Japan mið | it was very hard to noll the goods.
Mr. Stevenson-Why did you not tell him i to send them back to Hongkong?
His Hour Why did you not send them to Port Arthur (Langhter).
Witness told him to send them back in October. I told all my friends in Japan that they were good dates, but they did not want them. I saw samples of the dalon in Japan; they lookod spoiled. The consignes told me the fates were spotte súd the card board boxes wara stairod.. I did not got the bill of lading for them but my return to Hongkong till about the 20th January.
His Honour-The question arises as to whether the defendant wantonly detained those goods, and of course if he has done so he is liah's for damage to them. Before handing them to the defendant the plaintiff stready had them in the Colony for fre montha during the worst months in the year. Originally these fate were handed to the, dufandant to be sold without commission quite friendly-and thers is no evidence that ang time was fixed in which the defendant had to sither sell or return them. When the defendant was going to Japan the plaintif demanded soucity. The defendant
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THE TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILWAY.
The Kriegstechnische Zeitschrift publishes a eng article on the Trans-Siberian Bailway. The best portion of the line is that which passes through Manoburia, to the improvement of which £9,500,000 was decoted in 1898, and since the opening of the Khingan tunnel of two and Julf miles in length, in 1903, rolltary trains of 4 wagona och have been able to run on this portion of the line all the year round. West of Lake Baikal the largest number of wagons to a military train bas boon 25, whil
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Eur puan Res the number varies from 20 to 40. At the beginning of the war the IND COOPE'S ALE great distance, as much as 20 miles, between the tra stations woat of Baikal, kept the number of trains rou daily cary low
low, but tho
the subsequent
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PER CASK OF 8 DOZEN PINTO... $16.00
of the Bench (Mr. Johncil request authority to receive rice. He know that sucit refused, and I do not see why he should have building of 63 - stationsonabled that ntu:ber | shouted out" Fire" and afterwards said to the reasonable and proper, but the coil baring not ww breaking the law. If I had known that Jons otherwise On arriving at Inpau ho found the increased to 13 daily the line is that I BASS' LIGHT GRAVITY:
defendants. This is your doing." The list defendent said. The master order mi to do it." I singit a strong smell of kerosene in the premises asked the prisusers where the master bad gone. One of them replied, "He har gous to Canton." After the fire caught, it was only about one minute befors it spread all over the ground floor.
Willem Sydugy Bissell, sworn, submitted, a plan showing the positions of floors, ste, in Houses Nos. 168, Hollywood Road, and 9,
Square Street.
Kwok Yik Sau declared: On the early morning of the 12th January I was going along Hollywood Road, I heard someone "Fire." I walked behind ne ery OuL back in the direction of the cry, when I saw I
Po arrest two men. saw a little fro. I heard the delective kay "This is your work." Ithen warned thom and said "You are unlucky; you will get twenty
years at least." I stayed there three or four minates, and when I loit the fire was burning strongly.
und rtaken to collect house refase, anst do hous holder rufused to pluce 10, and if B the dust receptacl, in front of his house then the council must go to the back and fotch it.- Your. &o,
A RATEPAYER.-
THE SEAMEN'S HOME.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE "DAILY PRERA.”
Hongkong, at Fobraary.
Bru, Your correspondent Expert "is en tiroly wrong in his conclusions. Without wishing to enter into any controversy on a subject, I. being best qualified to know, will state the real
facts.
rice was on board before I luft. Chan Ten should here refused to carry it. As the freight for tornips is six candarenas por pioul, the freight for five thousand eatties woull be abent lo. 3. During the bad weather at Capsuitaan two jars fall overboard, and several ounces escaped from other jars. Lo saw the cargo on abors at Hongkong.
By the Court-I was on beard during the unloading.
Witness continuing-Le received the freight. By the Court-It went into my pocket after waida,
this dates musty, and not in a good condition
think may prosumas that it these datos were aleable the Japanese, who have a sweet tooth they were not minskalable October, Nuvem
likothers, would have bought them.
bar or
If
December would be 218 able, the one as the other, for returning them. Judgment for the defondant unâ conta. FIRE IN QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL. At about 6,30 p.m. pesterday fire broke out on the second floor of a three-story house, kept Witueus coutinning - The purchase pries of by Cheng Yuk (hun of the Nam Loong firm, in Queen's Road Central: The flames spread rice is a little over Tls: 2 par picul. I was never told that some of these jars were rapidly till the whole apper part of the building broken, nor that some of the rice was mlesing, was blazing. Fire Brigade operations were Baker, a number of bluejackets lending a hand. large crowd of Europeans backed by throng of Chiness watched the conflagration.
By the Court--About fifty of the basured jars were stowed on deck and the remainder in the hold. Those on deck were covered with matting.
Witners continuing-The jars could not hava been tampered with on my junk. I do not know whether or not they were breken, as they were in baakots,
a
in Jano last. The wors?-constructed
section of which passes through the hilly cuntry directly east of Baikal. The additica of 11 new stations since the beginning of the war,
at
PER CASK PINTS..
PER CASK PINTS.....
and the construction of a third line 12 striona, already existing oualed the BASS BOAR'S HEAD daily
number of trains on this sertion to be increased to nine, of which six wore military and three for the railway service. It is prob able that some improvements carried out last sommer have increased the daily number of IND COOPE'S STOUT trains on this section yet more. In Manchuria the gradients never exceed 1 in 60, and the
PER CASK PINTS...
curves have never a radius of less than a quarter of a mile. The bridges, however, are frequent and form altogether slightly under ene per cout. over an eighth of a mile long, and those over half a mile in the Subgari at Kharlin are over length. The more important bridges are of metal on stone piers. The line in Manchuria
a guarded-
of the permanent way There are 14 bridges GUINNESS' STOLT
infantry, and six batteries, in all 25,000 men, and their patrol extends to nearly miles on each side of the railway The dis- tance from the wastern boundary of Manchuria to Makdon is 925 miles.
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It is calculat d that if the military traina travelled at the rats of 12 miles an hour as far as Lake Baikal, and at the rate of nize and a-half miles an hour beyond, the time taken from Moerow to Makdon, including four days' stoppage, would be 24 days. As a matter of fact, the time actually taken has usually bom about 3 days, and in some cases as much as 10 days longer. There are 21 halting-placer ba- tween Moscow and Baikal, 15 having been built during the war. One of them, between Irkutsk at Baiked, has barrack accommodation for
The Si deposit is simply a guarantee to the Bailors Home, as it is responsible for the man's keep for six months, not one month se statat, I looked in No. 168 and If the man ruships bofore his deposit is Thore was not room for all the jora in the held carried out under the orders of Chief Inspector panies of stuias of cossacks, 55 com-
exhausted, and be generally dees, the balance, after the cost of his board and lodging has barn dedacted, is refunded. Sailors are charged at the rale of 81.15 per day and officers at the rate of $1,80: It might also be added that in the event of a souman becoming sick, the Home Li Yeo Sui. P.C. No. 375, said the mucond de-
guntautoes his hospital expenses. fendant ran out of the house fully dressed.
Without making any boast as to the fare Wong. Pak Me said: I lived at No. 183. Holly-provided, "Export" will confor a favour if be wood Road, second floor, with my wife and two will take the troubla to visit the Home. I shall children. Un the sight of the 11th January we bo only too pleased to show him round, and let were sheping there. I was awakened in the early him as what value discharged seafarers got morning, and on going out to the verandah saw for their money. From his total ignorance of flome coming from the ground floor. I shouted the subject, I am convinced that he has never **pixo," and rushing in again caught up my so, been within the walls of the Home, and him and want up to the third floor. I there laid latter is only worthy of a reply on account of down my son and looked for a way of excape: the interest that is centred on the subject at but could not find one. My uncle and cousin,
this time, and because of the erroneous ideas it who were on the vernadal with me, pulled down might give rise to. — Yours sincerely, the partition and we escaped into the hoa on
A. A. H. MILROY. the eastern side, and out by Square-Street.
Superintendent Sailers' Home: After I got to the third oor, I was unable, owing to the fierceness of the fire, to return to the seed to try to save my wife and daughters. Later in the morning I informed the Police that my wife was missing, and went with Inspuitor Gorrlay to the scene of the Are, where I identified the bodies of my wife and doughters.
Inspector Dymond was in charge of police regulating the traffic. The roof over the block of three houses, Nos. 88, 97 and 99, crashed in. The fire was well under control Cross-examined--I generally ask Lo about at about & quarter to eight, The upper floors cargo, and did question him about these han-were completely gutted, while the ground and red baskets. Ho zuid they were turnips, but first floors were damaged by water. The promises did not show me the manifest than, and I did were insured in L'Urbaine Insurance Company not ask him for it. The freight is always the for $35,000, in the Tung U Insurance Company
for $10,000 and in the Imperial Insurance Com-400. At some other places the barrack accommodation is for 500 won only. From pany for $10,000,
Baikal to Makdon the halting-placos are organ- ized to feed as many as 8,000 mon per day, includ ing. therefore, those who are merely passing through.
Hearing continues.
CANTON
(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.]
1st February, 1905, A GOOD RTORY. -
THE RELIEF OF DESTITUTE
SEAMEN
TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY PRESS,"
Bavio.
Mr. HardingWhen did you first know that the freight was going to be $75 P
Witness-When we got to Caprimun and the rice foll out. I said to Lo that be was cheating me. I had to deliver these goods at Hongkong. I did not speak to the man who came to take delivery: Someone came off on the 12th and spoke to my supercargo and I overheard the conversation. The stranger said we could not ask for so much freight, and the other replied, “We have broken the law." On the 10th rt. at Capenimus I told Lo to write $70 on the envelope.
The plaintiff nodded his head,
CEAN CHIK HI TONG V. LI KOL U
AND TWO OTHERS,
This daim was for 81,000. Mr. Almada e Castro, opposting for the plaintiff, said Tue defendants were partners, and the debt was incurred before the partnership was dissolved.
The second and third defendants admitted the debt. In reply to His Honour asking the first defendant if he also admitted it, the man replied:~~I do not know; I have gone into bankraplay now and have no money.
Sie,-I bave failed to find any justification in the letter writton by His Excellency the Governor for the statement in "Expert's" His Honor-There has been ratification. letter that the charge for board and lodging In adjourning the care His Honour, addres- at the Sailora' Home is 260 a month. His ang the piutiff, who is a Canton resident, eaid; Excellency puts the charge at $1.15 per day,Will you have recovered from the Chis and when "Expertӊdds to his list the soul of New Year by Tuesday morning? | lighting, fuel for cooking, servants, the salary of the superintendent and the rental of the building (or interest on capital invested it ap "house roat" is paid), his figures prove to me Just about the end of the year, erelltors that 5:15.65 is not an extortionate charge for the expout their debtors to settle all accounts, se a to be in "squ r" in the new year. When the accommodation, but an extremely modorate one. The demand for a deposit of $60 when i man debtors will not, or cannot pay, the creditors, in order to enforce the quicker setliament of enters the institution suggests to my mind that the authorities calculate that when a man gets their accounts, will sometimes go themselves or send their poor relatives to the debtor's bouge stranded here he will be very fortunate if he to sloop and est until the debt is paid. Herends another burth within a couple of months, is the story of how one debtor defeated the That I take to be the teaching of experience. plan of his creditors. A man named Chan, His Excellency apparently in under the impres who keeps a shop in Ho Put Street, sued his son that the average stay at the Home is from
10 to 20 days. dobtory Chow and others at the mandarin yazer for a debt of a few thousand dollars. Palm oil reached the mandarin Chan, and the plaintiff not only lost his case, but had to pag
Ching Ling Fos, the Chinese magician, con- the defendant $1,500. He went home in. furated, determined not to pay. What did the desiders flat he has won a moral victory.
le challenged his tivul, Chung Ling Boo, fendants do? They hired and went about a dozen whois now appearing at the Hippodromo, to a sleep there, of course at the expense of the In order to celebrate his meal victory. Ching plaintiff, and to make as much noise as they Ling Foo invited a few friends to the Hotel
Provence to a quiet dinner. ould. After standing this for a day or two the plaintiff quietly bired mix or seven lepere to stay in his shop. The women cleared off then,
UBIQUE.
CHOPSTICK FEAST IN LONDON.
His Honour-Judgment and costs against The pro- the second and third defondanta. ceedings against the first dofondant stayed.
BAYCE V. NOMURA.
Mr. D. V. Stevenson (uf Messrs. Deacon, Looker and Deacon) again appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Almada e Castro for the defondant. The plaintiff sought to recover eight cases of dates, valued at $100, handed by
FOOTBALL.
B. V. B.G,A
Played at Happy Valley yesterday afternoon, this match ended in a win for the R.E. The Artillery kicked off and at once commenced to press, bat Henwood cleared in good style. The Engineers thou took up the running in the left wing. Besy scored the first goal with a fast obligus shot. One of the Artillery was burt and had to leave the field for a litale. Tho change of ends saw some pretty passing among the B.E. forwards. Both defences were good. A clever pires of play between Ogle and Hampson finished with the latter centering Anely. Heatley shot a goal.
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The Daily Graphic has been amusingly misled by "Renter's Tokyo correspondent," in the article reproduced below. The ear-cop story was an impudent hoax perpetrated by a waggish schoolmaster well known in Tokyo. As for the lottery tickets (at addition presumably made by Reuters correspondent), we may add that lotteries are strictly forbidden by Japaness law. TALKING
The foresight of the Japanese military authorities has become proverbial. We know detail of the campaign has been carefully (writes Beutor's Tekyo correspondent) that ery and thought one got we are continually called upon to marvel at fresh revelations. Even the Japanese themselves, however, were the astonished when, ns time came to forward. Y.M.C.A. (CHINESE DEPARTMENT) V. the winter outfits for the armies in Manchuria, the comraissaria produced hundreds of thousands This match was played at Causeway Bay of fur ear-protes from? Ne one had ever Where could these things have come fro yesterday afternoou.
heard of their being made.
Begoll-R.E., 2, H.G.A., 0.
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Result-Y.M.C.A, 3; Moslems, 1.
CRICKET,
BWATOW V. HONGKONG,
Mossra. T. C. Gray and A. O. Brawn are going to Swatow to-day instead of Messrs. W W. Ross and P. W. Goldring.
KOWLOON 4.C. V. B.E
ora
rat
It seems that two years ag plague was rag- ing along the China coast. The Japanese quarantine authority decided that strenuous efforts must be made to keep the dread disease out of the country. They determined to start : srusade against rats. In all the serports and larger cities bounties were offered for each brought in. The small bays found this a great source of 'revenue, and the competition at once became very keen. For each rat the huntsman was given a fow seu and a lottery ticket. The money ho might squander, but the ticket ko saved, and at the end of the month there wOH S
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The following players have been selected to pay for the Kowloon C.C. against the E. in the League match at Happy Valley, at 2:30p.m. drawing, with prises varying from ten to a to-morrow (Saturday):-B. Lightfoot, J. Parkes, popular amusement, and the boards of health J. Clelland, E. B. Herton, Dr. J. JH. Swan, all J. Robinson, H. L. Garrett, Lieut. F. C. Bard, the daily bag
Liont. G. H. Dobbyn, and P. Moss,
yon. Thus rat-catching became a
the country were kept bnay examining Each animal was duly the place in which it was
registered
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wonnen, old and young, to his shop to eat and test of skill, and the rival declined the combat him to the defendant for sale, or their value. Lient. W. F. Lumsden, Lieut. W. B. Dauca, caught noted. It was then examined,,and, PIANO PLAYERS.
LOST HIS HEAD.
CHINESE JUSTICE.
on the invitation cord.
The defendant returned the dates, but the plaintiff said that now they were not in a saleable equdition and therefore he would not receive
Chopsticks provided" was the intimation them. In the witness box the plaintiff said The dinner was thoroughly Chinese, with the ad sight cases of dates for five months, and exception of the wnes. There were fourteen then, in June 1904, gave them to the defendant dishes, each about three inetes in diameter. and to saft: The dates (sample produced) are now
·their mystorians contents were of various flavours-such as these of chicken, shrimp, spoiled. Hors (produced) are samples of good dates. There are now only seven and a half and nuts.
cases of dates.
it could be done.
Cross-examined-The good dates are of a
SOLDIERS CLUB CHALLENGE SHIELD.
if any supicions germs were discovered, the from which the crestars sama wasim- dily raided, all the rats in it were hunted The final to the Soldiers' Clubs Challenge down and the place was disinfected, Shield (Cricket) was played at Happy Valley
In this manner was the
the plague kept out of yesterday afternoon. The match, R.E. Staf Japan. The small boys amused themselves and made money, and no one stopped to think of and Department . the E.W.K, Regiment, what had become of the skins of these millions ended in a win for the Engineers by eleven of rats that had been worrying the beards of
runs.
BOWLS.
health. They had not been thrown away. The military authorities had used them to make ear protectors. The war cloud was threatening even then, and the Manchurian winters are cold. The drawing of the Hongkong Civil Service The rat skins are a blessing, to the soldiers in
the field. They are a canny people, the Japan CC. Monthly Bowls Competition, the first, not given to waste nor indifferent to frozen round to be finished on or before the 15th inst.,
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A native by name. Wong Ngah Chew for falsely pretending to bɔ a Japanese and 1 Remnu Untholic, thereby committing frand, in-
The manipulation of the chopsticks caused terfering in matter of law, and complaining much distress to the European visitors, even against the mandarine, was arrested in Safter they had been instructed how to use them. Sai, tried before the Na Hoi Magistrate, and The Chinese guest smiled indulgently, and different brand to the bad ones. I have had the sentenced to capital punishment. A few days picked up tiny grains of rice to show how easily good dates two months. I cannot say that my ngs he was tied band and foot, and carried to
A curious point of Chinese afiquette was that shop is damp.
The defendunt-In-dade 1904 the plaintiffs as follows:-Melver Coych, Higby v the execution ground and decapitated.
Ching Ling Foo did not appear until the end of the feast. Mrs. Ching, her brother, and gave me eight boxes of dates to send to Japan Raven, Parkinson B. Hudson, W. H. E A woman, Li Mak She, of middle hgs, short pretty little Chee Toy, her daughter, sat at the I did not examine the contents of the cases. It Smith Hill, Gourlay v M. Taylor, Witchell v Frith, J. Smith v Blowey, Howell v Brett, was a friendly agreement, I receiving no com- and this, bus undergone the most orusi ardable, and directed the nimble Chinese waiters. Ching Ling Foo was in the kitchen, superin tending the cooking, which was all done by him- mission: No tie pas fxed within which Audrowy Carter, Duncany Woolley, Craig v self and his Chinese servants. To prepare the the dates were to be sold. On the 1st September Pitt. Dougherty Brand, Cooper v Weaser
with his own hands is the greatest com- I left for Japan, having first seen Mr. Bayes. Reidio v Cotton, Fanton a bye. pliment a Chinaman can offer his guests.
WEATHER REPORT. Mrs. Ching sipped a few cups of tea, but the I said to bin I was going to Japan, would Canton is experiencing severe cold just customs of her country forbade her to eat be try my best to sell them. Sayee asked for
security. I was not able to sell the dates. On the 2nd at 11.55 a.m. The baromster has new. It is snowing, and mendients are dying for her he dinner was finished Ching Ling I arrived kock at Hongkong on the 30th fallen throughout Japan and Imarasen at all othe of cold and hunger. On account of the rumour
Sayce saw me on the stations. A marked auticyclone lies over December, and that a number of firms in Hongkong are on the Feo appeared, wished his guests Chin chin.
and drank a cup of tea in their housDE HO brink of insolvency, commercia: credit here bas afterwards made a few plates and wine bottles 4th January. He said he would take fein whole of N China and gradients are very steep Theema (Wash.) for U.K. via Jupar, Shanghai
south coast.. Very strong NE monsoon will be bean considerably shaken. Indeed, the mor- vanish, and did mory magic with five tiny red precedings. The dates arrived back at Hong- upon the east coast, and more moderate spou the and Hongkong on the 13th ult
Half experienced in the Formen Channel and to the Festerday morning, and is due here on Sunday 1er FLOOR, WATKINS BUILDINGS obante were in something like a panic, until a bala than most conjurors could do with a stage. kung on, the 17th December, before ma.
a wase must have been used as samples, and northward of it and moderate to fresh NE windsor & stoomer dragonia-l-ft-Pestisud.
31, Queen's Road Central.. four leading merchants came up from. Hong-ful of paraphernalia.
Little Chee Toy ended a lively evening by
(Or.) on the 30th mit., and is due here on the 3rd prox.
Dongkong, 19th October 1904. kong and assured them that they would benging “Becuase I love you" in English with therefore only sevon and a half cases arrived in the northern part of the Chirs Bea.
frequent lapses into her native tongue.
barbarous punishment of lingles, by being tied to doross and out into slices, for having killed her husband and-mother-in-law by rat poison.
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