WOMAN B DRIED ALIVE

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7847, 8 July 1911, Page 17

WOMAN B DRIED ALIVE

PUKISHMEOT FOE “TJmVETTTEN LAW” ciinTjU. On the Russian gold workings near Argun, in Eastern Siberia, numbers of Korean workmen are employed and whole colonics of Koreans ha to been established in the vicinity. A grim story illustrating the ideas cf popular justice which obtains among theee people is narrated by the r»ovoys Vnomya/' It appears that a certain Tscha-sain, returning to the district after a Somewhat prolonged absence, sought to renew a love affair which ho had previously had with a Korean woman named XA. The woman had in the meantime married and resisted her former- lover's advances He persisted, and in defence of her honour she hilled him. Tncroupon a Count was convened from among the Korean community, and the six eldest men present passed sentence that the woman should bo buried alive She was dragged to the grave of Tschu-sain, which was opened, and after having been stunned with a blow on tho forehead from a billet of wood, she was thrown in with the decomposed corpse of her would-be betrayer and buried in tho presence of the entire local Korean populace. On tho news becoming known to the Russian authorities the grave was again opened and the story verified, with the result that the members of the “Court” will now have to stand trial for murder.