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The unjust sentence from the Chinese.
Mister Chu was a native of Young Coo,

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and as a young man, was
much given to playing tricks and talking

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in a loose kind of way.
Having lost his wife, he went off

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to ask certain old woman to arrange
another match for him, and on the

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way he chanced to fall in with
a neighbor's wife, who took his fancy

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very much, so he said,
in a joke to the old woman,

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get me that stylish looking handsome lady, and I shall be quite satisfied.

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I'll see what I can do,
replied the old woman, also joking if

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you managed to kill her present husband, upon which Chu laughed and said he

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would certainly do so. Now.
About a month afterwards, the said husband,

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who had gone out to collect some
money due to him, was actually

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killed in a lonely spot, and
the magistrate of the district immediately summoned the

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neighbors and beadle and held the usual
inquest, but was unable to find any

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clue to the murderer. However,
the old woman told the story of her

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conversation with Jo, and suspicion at
once fell upon him. The constables came

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and arrested him but he stoutly denied
the charge, and the magistrate now began

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to suspect the wife of the murdered
man. Accordingly, she was severely beaten

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and tortured in several ways until her
strength failed her, and she falsely acknowledged

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her guilt. Note by Herbert A. Giles translator. Such has doubtless been

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the occasional result of torture in China. But the singular keenness of the mandarins

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as a body in recognizing the innocent
and detecting the guilty, that is,

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when their own averaragous interests are not
involved, makes this contingency so rare as

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to be almost unknown. A good
instance came under my own notice at Suotteau

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in eighteen seventy six. For years
a Chinese servant had been employed at the

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Foreign Custom House to carry a certain
summer money every week to the bank,

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and at length his honesty was about
suspicion. On the occasion to which I

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allude, he had been sent as
usual with a bag of dollars, but

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after a short absence he rushed back
with a frightful gash on his right arm,

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evidently inflicted by a heavy chopper,
and laying the bone bear the money

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was gone. He said he had
been invited into a tea house by a

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couple of soldiers, whom he could
point out that they had tried to wrest

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the bag from him, and that
at length one of them seized the shopper

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and inflicted so severe a wound on
his arm that, in his agony,

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he dropped the money, and the
soldiers made off with it. The latter

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were promptly arrested and confronted with their
accuser, but with almost indecent haste,

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the police magistrate dismissed the case against
them and declared that he believed the man

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had made away with the money and
inflict the wound on himself, And so

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it turned out to be under overwhelming
evidence, this servant of prude fidelity had

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given way to a rash hope of
making a little money at the gambling table,

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had hurried into one of these halls
and lost everything in three stakes,

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had wounded himself on the right arm. He was a left handed man,

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and had concocted the story of the
soldiers all within the space of about twenty

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five minutes. When he saw that
he was detected, he confessed everything without

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hiving received a single blow of the
bamboo, but up to the moment of

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his confession, the foreign feeling against
that police magistrate was undeniably strong en Note.

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Chue was then examined, and he
said, this delicate woman could not

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bear the agony of your tortures,
which she has stated is untrue. And

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even should he wrong, escape the
notice of the gods. For her to

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die in this way with the stain
upon her name is more than I can

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endure. I will tell the whole
truth. I killed the husband that I

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might secure the wife. She knew
nothing at all about it, And when

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the magistrate asked for some proof,
Chew said his bloody clothes would be evidence

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enough. But when they center search
his house, no bloody clothes were forthcoming.

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He was then beaten to the fainted, Yet when he came round he

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still stuck to what he said.
It is my mother, cried he who

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will not sign the death warrant of
his son. Let me go myself and

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I will get the clothes. So
he was escorted by a guard to his

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home, and there he explained to
his mother that whether she gave up or

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withheld the clothes, it was all
the same that in either case, he

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would have to die, and it
was better to die early than late.

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Thereupon his mother wept bitterly, and
going into the bedroom, brought out of

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the short delay that he quiet clothes, which were taken at once to the

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magistrates. There was now no doubt
as to the truth of Cheo's story,

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and as nothing occurred to change the
magistrate's opinion, thrown into prison to await

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the day for his execution. Meanwhile, as the magistrate was one day inspecting

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his jail, suddenly a man appeared
in the hall who glared at him fiercely

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and roared out dull headed, fool, unfit to be the guardian of the

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people's interests. Whereupon the crowd of
servants standing around rushed forward to seize him,

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but with one sweep of his arms
he laid them all flat on the

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ground. The magistrate was frightened out
of his wits and tried to escape,

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but the man cried out to him, I am one of Quanti's lieutenants.

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If you move one inch, you
are lost. So the magistrates stood there,

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shaking from head to foot with fear, while his visitor continued the murderer

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is Kumpiao Chiu had nothing to do
with it. The lieutenant then fell down

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on the ground and was to all
appearance lifeless. However, after a while

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he recovered his face, having quite
shack changed, and when they asked him

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his name, lo it was coom
Pial. Under the application of the bamboo,

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he confessed his guilt. Always an
unprincipled man, he had heard that

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the murdered man was going out to
collect money, and, thinking he would

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be sure to bring it back with
him, he had killed him but found

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nothing. Then, when he learned
that Jew had acknowledged the crime as his

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own doing, he had rejoiced in
secreted such a stroke of luck. How

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he had got into the magistrate's hall, he was quite unable to say.

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The magistrate now called for some explanation
of Chew's bloody clothes, which Chew himself

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was unable to give. But his
mother, who was at once sent for,

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stated that she had cut her own
arm to stain them, and when

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they examined her, they found on
her left arm the scar of a recent

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wound. The magistrate was lost in
amazement, and all this unfortunately for him,

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the reversal of his sentence cost him
his appointment, and he died in

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poverty, unable to find his way
home. As for true, the widow

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of the murdered man married him in
the following year out of gratitude for his

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noble behavior.