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of the body
to the Stuces, and to prevent
him getting such support from his armes
on fact. To judge from the agonized look
in the faces of these wretches, their sufferings
Must have been acute - Inquired
crise, and was told that they were
highwaymen undergoing torture to extort
a confession,
Main Confers,
I was going to understand That they had already been tried and had confessed their crime before the lower
Magistrate's Court, but had retracted such confession on being sent to the Prefect's
tribunal -
At two tables in the Centre of the Hall,
were seated the Judges, who were Mandarins
of an inferior grade who are
ordinarily
deputed by the Prefect to try cases before his Court - Before
these latter, knelt
a woman on her knees, the usual attitude
of every person, prisoner or torturer, when confronted by the Judge- I heard the Examining Magistrate, who was talking
in Mandarin which was translated to the
witness, first abuse her, and then threaten
to beat her unless she told what he was
pleased to consider the truth, and, in
proof of
his readiness to put such a
threat into immediate Execution, and
beat her
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of the body
to the Stuces, and to prevent
him getting such support from his armes
on fact. To judge from the agonized look
in the faces of these wretches, their sufferings
Must have been acute - Inquired
crise, and was told that they were
highwaymen undergoing torture to extort
a confession,
Main Confers,
I was going to understand That they had already been tried and had confessed their crime before the lower
Magistrate's Court, but had retracted such confession on being sent to the Prefect's
tribunal -
At two tables in the Centre of the Hall,
were seated the Judges, who were Mandarins
of an inferior grade who are
ordinarily
deputed by the Prefect to try cases before his Court - Before
these latter, knelt
a woman on her knees, the usual attitude
of every person, prisoner or torturer, when confronted by the Judge- I heard the Examining Magistrate, who was talking
in Mandarin which was translated to the
witness, first abuse her, and then threaten
to beat her unless she told what he was
pleased to consider the truth, and, in
proof of
his readiness to put such a
threat into immediate Execution, and
beat her
Mistribut...