A CHINESE EXECUTION.

Southland Times, Volume VI, Issue 498, 20 June 1866, Page 3

A CHINESE EXECUTION.

A •write? from Amoy states that a short time ago a young rebel was executed there. He first received 300 blows with a bamboo, which he received without a cry. "He was theu taken to a cross that had been erected for the purpose; and being securely lashed to it, in an upright posture, with his arms extended, the executioner commenced his horrible butchery by first cutting off the flesh above the eyes, next the ears, and then the breasts ; then he cut through the muscles of each arm. Then the muscles of the thighs were cut out in the same manner. After the executioner had performed these dreadful tortures upon the poor wretch, he laid his small knife aside and took another about ten inches long and about an inch broad, and cut gashes in the man's chest, laying his rib 3 bare. Then he ran the knife into the poor victim's body, entering 1 just below the sternum, in the middle of the chest, to the full extent of the blade. This I thought and hoped would the coup de grace; but no, for the for the man still breathed, and the executioner still continued his bloody task, coming downwards with the knife, and letting out his entrails. He then slashed and cut open the stomach. Then, giving a yell, he ran his hand in, and seized the man's liver, and cut it out. This finished the torture, and the executioner left the victim in this mutilated state, not yet dead, for I saw him give'several gasps for breath afterwards. The body was exposed on the same wharf for five days. The poor rebel bore his inhuman torture most manfully, not a moan or sigh escaped him during all the time. The only movement he made was a slight quivering of his whole frame, and a movement of the head to and fro ; otherwise a spectator might have questioned whether he was alive or dead during the horrible exhibition."