从新场党狱透视清末地方司法腐败

An Inquiry into the Local Judicial Corruption from the "Xinchang's Narrow Escape of the Revolution Party Members from Capital Punishment"

1903年,黄炎培等人因在南汇新场演说一事,被知县戴运寅以"革命党"罪逮捕,并被判以死刑,后侥幸得脱,亡命日本,是为"新场党狱"。从逮捕判刑到援救出逃,整个"新场党狱"充满了戏剧性,其间更充斥着清末地方政府司法中的种种腐败。地方司法的腐败恰恰反映了清末政府控制力量的衰弱。其时信任缺失、社会失控,权威荡然无存,清政府已然一派山雨欲来风满楼的惨淡景象。

In 1903, Huang Yanpei and several Revolution Party followers were arrested by the county magistrate Dai Yunying because they made a speech in Xinchang and sentenced to death. Later on they got a narrow escape to Japan, which is historically known as ＂Xinchang Dangyu＂. From arrest to sentence to escape, the whole incident was changing dramatically. Various judicial cor- rupt practices of the local governments of the Late Qing Dynasty filled the whole incident. Local judicial corruptions manifested the Qing＇s weakening power in controlling the whole kingdom, The Qing was greeting its sunset in that historical period.