...stone, are resorted to when the prisoner is contumacious. One magistrate is accused in the Gazette of having fastened up two criminals to boards by nails...caused his death ; using beds of iron, boiling water, red hot spikes, and cutting the tendon Achilles, are also charged against him, but the emperor exonerated...

...stocks before or behind the back, suspending the body by the thumbs and fingers, tying the hands to a bar under the knees, so as to bend the body double,...prisoner is contumacious. One magistrate is accused in the Gazette of having fastened up two criminals to boards by nails driven through their palms ;...

...suspending the body by the thumbs and fingers, tying the hands to a bar under the knees, so as to bend th* body double, and chaining by the neck close to a stone,...prisoner is contumacious. One magistrate is accused in the Gazette of having fastened up two criminals to boards by nails driven through their palms ;...

...fingers in oiled cloth to burn them, suspending the body by the thumbs and fingers, tying the hands to a bar under the knees, so as to bend the body double,...caused his death ; using beds of iron, boiling water, red hot spikes, and cutting the tendon Achilles are also charged against him, but the Emperor exonerated...

...to be seen in several cases in the prison ; suspending the body by the thumbs ; tying the hands to a bar under the knees, so as to bend the body double during many hours; the thumbscrew ; dislocating the arm or shoulder ; kneeling upon pounded glass,...

...fingers in oiled cloth to burn them, suspending the body by the thumbs and fingers, tying the hands to a bar under the knees, so as to bend the body double,...fastened up two criminals to boards by nails driven througli their palms ; one of them tore his hands THE MIDDLE KINGDOM. loose and was nailed up again,...

...bruised into a jelly. Sometimes he is hung up by the thumbs and fingers. Sometimes the hands are tied to a bar under the knees, so as to bend the body double. Sometimes the neck is fastened into a heavy frame of wood, thirty or forty pounds weight. You will...

...fingers in oiled cloth to burn them, suspending the body by the thumbs and fingers, tying the hands to a bar under the knees, so as to bend the body double,...are resorted to when the prisoner is contumacious. Compelling them to kneel upon pounded glass, sand, and salt mixed together, until the knees become...

...cloth to burn them, suspending the body by the thumbs and fingers, tying the hands to a bar un'3er the knees, so as to bend the body double, and chaining...close to a stone, are resorted to when the prisoner is contumaci' jus. Compelling them to kneel upon pounded glass, sand, and salt m ixed together, until...

...stocks before or behind the back; suspending the body by the thumbs and fingers ; tying the hands to a bar under the knees, so as to bend the body double ; and chaining the neck close by a stone."* A late Missionary in China mentions the piteous spectacle which met his...