CONDEMNED TO DIE
LAST-MINUTE CONVERSION. (Frets Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.) PEKING, September 24. Eight Chinese, kidnappers, who were executed at Shanghai, embraced the Roman Catholic faith. The last rites were administered by a native priest, and they were .baptised. They rode to their doom in rickshas. A ninth criminal refused to accept the faith, insulted the priest, and was shot swearing.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19905, 27 September 1926, Page 10
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