A HIDEOUS PICTURE OF CRIME AND CRUELTY.
A correspondent, writing from Rangoon on May 4, says : —The news that has come lately to hand from Mandalay reveals as hideous a picture of crime and diabolical cruelty as the human mind can conceive. King Theebau has allowed himself to be ruled by his strong-minded Queen, so that the real government of Upper Burmah is nowvested in the Soopayahiat. One of this woman’s first acts was to wreak her vengeance on the rival who had supplanted her. During the Chief Queen’s last confinement the King had made himself particularly agreeable to the grand-daughter of the old Kampat Mingyee, and even went the length of making her a Queen. But when the Soopayahiat was herself again she made it so uncomfortable for the Royal husband that he was forced to put his new wife away. Not content with this triumph, the Queen prevailed on her weak-minded husband to have the new Queen punished, and she carried her point so far as to persuade the King to order her rival to be beaten with rods. The unfortunate young Queen was dragged into the presence of the Soopayahiat, and, though far advanced in pregnancy, was inhumanly beaten to death with clubs, the Queen calmly sitting out the entire scene. To prevent the story of the murder getting abroad, the Queen ordered all those who were aware of the crime to bo imprisoned.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1110, 31 July 1882, Page 4
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237A HIDEOUS PICTURE OF CRIME AND CRUELTY. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1110, 31 July 1882, Page 4
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