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The Daily Dispatch: April 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], Extraordinary self-sacrifice by a Chinese widow. (search)
Extraordinary self-sacrifice by a Chinese widow. A Hong-Kong paper contains the following account, by an eye-witness, of a voluntary sacrifice of life by a disconsolate widow: A few days since 1 met a Chinese procession passing through the foreign settlement, escorting a young female in scarlet and gold, in a richly decorated chair, the object of which I found was to invite the public to come and see her hang herself — a step she had resolved to take, in consequence of the death of her husband, by which she had been left a childless widow. Both being orphans, this event had severed her dearest earthly ties, and she hoped by this sacrifice to secure to herself eternal happiness, and meet with her husband in the next world. I repaired, on the day appointed, to the indicated spot. We had scarcely arrived, when the same procession was seen advancing from the joss-house of the widow's native village, towards a scaffold and gallows erected in an adjacent field, and surrounded