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SENTIMENT AND ECONOMY SHANGHAI, Oct. 24. A missionary writing from the interior to a local foreign newspaper describes a new method of execution, which loaves part of the head on the body. This, in deference to an old Chinese idea that in the hereafter the dead immediately recognised his evil character. Formerly a victim's relatives paid a dollar per stitch to a cobbler to resew the head in position/ and thus hoodwink the spirit world. The new method obviates this, but is likelv to cause cobblers' riots.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16500, 18 November 1927, Page 2
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88BEHEADING Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16500, 18 November 1927, Page 2
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