Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1890 — BURNED ALIVE. [ARTICLE]

BURNED ALIVE.

F«ar Drives Chinese VI Ingrrs to the Commission of a Horrible Crime. Chinese advices report tho execution of sentences on the villagers near Shanghai • for thexrnel murder of J -ftturteetr sattrfffr speotors, and the burning of - the bodies of the wounded and dead. Last March these salt inspectors made a raid on a village. They wore no uniforms, and the villagers mistook them for pirates. The inspectois seized a pile of contraband salt which they found by the side of a house, aud wdiile removing it to their boats they were attacked by villagers and overpowered. Nearly all were only stunned by blows, but a visit to tneir boats showed the villagers that, they had attacked government officers, and fearful of the severe punishment, they decided to burn the boat, an i with it the bodies of the wounded inspectors, to remove all traces of tho crime. So they canoed the injured men to the boat, and, despite their entreaties, set tire te it and bu.nei the whole. The chief criminal was sentenced to decapitation, but committed suicide before »beday arrived, and.aeeord'' to law, his body was exhumed ami the head struck off and exhibited as a warning tit" the public . Four others, were stem. ?lcd and four exiled after heavy fines. . > ■ ■ |