THE DIABOLICAL SECT.

Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2465, 28 April 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE DIABOLICAL SECT.

Tick Sliilc Pao, it Shanghai p-iper, says j— A mo.-t horrible story lias becu received, ami, if, true, tin) speediest aiid most vigorous prosecution on the part of the authorities is required to crush the evil. The inform itiou corn?* throuirh official Ki>iin:cs, tiMiismiUo.l from Uonon to Tung Cliou, and thence to all the different prefectures of China. It appears that on the 16th of the 7th moon the magistrate of tin , . Vu di.-tiiut in Honati received a petition from a man nimel Li residing within his jurisdiction, sotting forth that two of hisohildren, a hoy and a girl, had been brutally murdered and their bo ties horribly mutilated. Upon receipt of tin* intelligence the magistrate proceeded in person to examine the corpse- , , and found j that thoy actually bore marks of having ! b-.'cii most, outrnureou.-ly used: the brains I uvro all scooped out, and tho heads weie broken and cnj-h'.'d. It became ovitli'ti! that this n>ndUh cri'iio was p-rpetratuil >>V some of the '• \)\ ibolicil Sect," whose practice it is to g., about with tho o'ject. of miinleriiii; chiMn-n and abstracting their brains to compound medicines with It is well known that the members of this sret act in the: most secret and mysterious manner, and they move about from plice to place under tin; disguise of merchant* or travellers. In consequence of thn disclosure of the iibovo tragedj tho authorities firo everywhere on the alert, and are adopting the most stringent ami vigorous measures to bring about the entire extinction of the sect.