A JAPANESE PUNISHMENT.
An English .resident in Japan recently recorded the horror which he felt when, immediately after landing, he met a wretched criminal walking about Tokio, in midwinter, 'nalicfdrwitli his hair lied back so tightly to a beam of wood r laid across his shoulders, to which, his arms wore strapped, that, no mattor how far back he strained his !head, the hair was almost torn from his scalp'. On -inquiry-he-found—that the- torture was inflicted on the criminal to indicate the abhorrence with which the law regarded the robbery of the scanty earnings of the helpless poor.' The miscreant.had picked the pocket of a blind cripple.—Pall Mall Gazette,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6147, 30 July 1881, Page 7
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109A JAPANESE PUNISHMENT. New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6147, 30 July 1881, Page 7
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