Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1881 — How a Chinese Woman Was Disposed of. [ARTICLE]

How a Chinese Woman Was Disposed of.

China News. On the evening of the 30(h of June, while the C. N.~ Company’s steamer IV* in ; was lying alongside the hulk ai Ita .how, the officers witnessed an attempt to drown a woman from a sampan c’ose by the landing steps, on the jad of two men, one of whom was seen to push her into the water. Mr. Morgan, of the Custom service, who saw ihe occurrence from the shore, ran doWn the steps and rescued the woman, the water there being only six feet deep. When he pulled her out of the water it was found that iier hands were tied behind her ueck. She said to her rescuer: "Masked more better I die.” When she had recovered from tiie efleets of her bath she went home. At 4:30 a. m., the next day, she-was "successfully drowned ’by her brothers-in-law, the men whose attempt had had been frustrated on the previous day. They look her out this time into tiie middle of the river, aud, haviug attached a line to her waist, as well as pinioned her arms and fixed a stone around tier neck, they pushed her into the water as before. Alter life was extinct they jiulleu the body up by tbo line around the waist, took it ashore and buried it with the usual funeral rites. The crime of the deceased was Listed to he that "she refused to marry an old man! she being a fine, blooming widow, wanted something better.” The details of the actual murder were given to Mr. Morgan by some Chinese, \vuo witnessed both events; and the mrr.ldTt rs themselves told him that it omitd have been better if he had not iuteriered with their first attempt.