CHINESE METHOD OF TORTURE.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43102, 8 June 1907, Page 4

CHINESE METHOD OF TORTURE.

AJ drop of water, even three or four drops, falling on the head teems a thing unworthy of attention; nevertheless ini China a slow and continuous dropping of water on the head has been found to be a method of torture under which the most hardened criminal abjectly howls for inieirdy. When a professor in the. Sonbo-nne stated this to his class the other day ,one of the students laughed incredulously, and said 1 it would take a good deal of that sort of thing to affect him. The profees or assured him that even one quart of water dropped slowly on to his hand would be beyond his endurance. He agreed to experiment. A quart measure filled with water was brought in a microscopic hole was bored in the bottom, and the performance began, the professor counting. During the first hundred drops the student -made airy remarks. With the second hundred he .‘began to look, less cheerful, then gradually all his talk died away, and his fatee took on a haggard, tortured expression. With the third hundred the hand' began to swell and look red. The pain increased to torture. Finally the skin broke. At the four hundred and twentieth drop the sceptic acknowledged his doubts vanished, and begged for mercy. He could bear no mors.