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FROM INSTRUMENTS OF TORTURE TO SUITS FOR SHOP-LIFTERS.
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The fact that there is nothing new under the run is aptly demon- strated by an historical display of relics of Chinese cause and cure of crime displayed in the Musaum at Central Police Station. Every modern swindling invention, range ing all the way from weight tam- pering to the breaking of Monte Carlo banks, seems to have had a predecessor born from the cunning Chinese mind. Upon the shelves and in the cases of this room there is a display of torture material which would make a bona fide ghost cardle. Most of it is crude, al though its adequacy is demonstrat.
de by the rusted blood en blades And hatchets. Some of the weapons, however, seem to have been contriv ed for the daintiest of feminine intrigue. There are revolvers 30 Kim and anal that they might easily be slipped into a hand bag, hidden within a small palm. The handles are carved with beanti- ful delicacy. Other artillery is of gigantic proportion, heavy and an. wieldy. There is, among the assört. ment, a small Deringer, the type of weapon which shot Abraham Lincoln. manufactured in the ear- lier colonial days in America. Sword guns and sword canes, cun- Disgly hidden in steel allmness must have made heavy walking for the debonair crook attempting to One wagger with nonchalance. care has hidden within its half- inch diameter, trigger. bullet, and barrci. A tiny secret spring ré leases a catch for loading...
Terrors of the Fut Many of these weapons have for from mediocre histories. There are grim relics of the Taiping rubel- lion hung upon the wall. Swords taken in the Revolution of 1912-1013
The Smasher's Sup. "Another good skin-game, and a field that seems to have been delved into considerably. is the counter- feiting of money. There are two cabinets filled with coins and notes in the Museum, presenting a splen- did example of Chinese cleverness and inaccuracy. For it has always been the latter quality that brought the notes into the Museum instead of keeping them in circulation. There is one note that seems, or first glance, to be bona fide. If one takes the time to read the words one finds, "The Board et Dipectors." Thus, a missprint in spelling sent a private mint gallows. The love of the game, and not the profit, seems to intrigue great extent.
the Chinese to
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There are fake ten cent, notes, fako' coppers, and even, fake one cent stampa The latter were discovered only upon the discovery that there were more perforations around the edges than contained, on the real article. Otherwise the copy was perfect."
Infinite patience is demonstrated in the manufacture of some of the better notes on display. Foreign bank notes are made of two-ply naner. This fact has enabled ene clever Chinese to make out of twelve notes, thirteen, with no other labour than the splitting of notes, folding each sheet into twelve parts, tearing a very narrow strip from cach two sheets to make a back and front, and fitting, the twenty-four strips together to make one note. A piece of adhesive tape innocently covers the mutilated original and there is a ten dollar profit on every hundred.
Fake Chops. Counterfeiting has been a history- making device as well as a source of money to the Chinese. Institu tions of long standing have occa- sionally found their credit destroy-
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into the Settlement, lay peacefully crossed. The executioner's sword, "resembling a glorified cleaver, is mute evidence of torturing justice, It is, brown with the blood of many death-dealer and swindler. Near by the executioners' word is a rivid portrait of an agonizing Chinese receiving the Liaz Chi, or the lingering, death. The photo grapher took good pictures, but the results will not be described..
In sublime mockery of these evidence of human tragedies there is an assortment of unique dummy pistols. They are harmless and erude. But they have found to be very effective, inasmuch as they are easy to obtain or make and a piece of steel shoved into one's ribs usual ly doesn't have to bear inspection, Many a man has congratulated himself upon etcaping with his life while a grinning crook stuffs his loot, along with his innocent tin pistol, into his packet.
The Murder Cabinet. In the murder cabinet there is also a magnificent assortment of bombs.
Old and interesting books and manuscrints have been found to be an ideal place to hide and ship a bomb. The centre is dug out and the bomb placed within. It is then sent to an enemy, who, when he opens it to examine its paxes, gets shattered into bita Fortunately there has been much accidental justice in the matter of dealing out this brand of death. man opened the cover In one case again to take just one more peck, There wasn't enough of him left to bury. Thero is another bomb in this case which was originally intended for a Consul..The man who threw it missed the door by a fraction of an inch. The fuse went off and he was patched together. long enough to take his picture which now hangs in warning beside
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However, death is not the only.
of fake "chops," whose likeness was stamped disastrously upon various documents. Banks have been smashed and rebellions instituted. In 1911 floods of Republican milit- ary notes helped for a few weeks to assist the Revolution. A rebellion in Stechuan was forestalled in 1815 by the timely arrival of the police and the raiding of a printing plant which manufactured notes for the purpose of gaining confi dence among the mutineers.
Pecuniary crime has several art- ful contrivances to its credit in the museum also. There is a device resembling a crude rope ladder which has assisted in many a "cat" burglary.
The robber merely thross the hooked ladder to a ledge and clambera up into the window. In company with the cat-ladder there is an enormous pair of tronters made of ordinary black cloth It is obvious that they are too large for any ordinary use. They are tucked inside the regular clothes and worn shopping. Fas tened at the ankles, they are cap- able of receiving almost anything from kajck-knacks to rolls of silk.
Most of the devices in "this Museum have been invented by the ordinary type of uneducated Chin ese with a flare for getting along in the world. One shudders to think what a little learning" might contrive. All have been effe tive at one time or another. Bet the fact that they are now lying in harmless peace proves that they are also all de-. fective. "Clever people-these Chi- nese."-but bow about the Police 1- N.-C. Daily News.
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A member of the London Staff of the Hong Kong Daily Press was among the guests recently enter taimed at Sonthampton by re- presentatives
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