drenched with blood. There was blood too on the floor where he had been struggling. When they unbed him he fell into a heap on to the floor, and the lictors lifted him off from the Court.
And the lectors carried him away in a basket.
Euchare, in plain language, the scenes I have myself witnessed at the Chief Criminal Courts in this city, and such is without question the process to which every prisoner unconvicted by the Government of Hongkong will be subjected, should he prove obdurate to confession.
(54) A.R. Hewlett Consul.
Ellenton
22th January, 1883.
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