Execution scene.

Albumen print, b/w, 22 x 28 cm, pasted on cardboard.

Five bandits, some of them pirates that had seized the steamer "Namoa, about to be executed in 1891 at Kowloon, Hong Kong. "The Kowloon City Execution Ground was the beach next to the Boundary Fence immediately south of the Walled City [...] being used for the execution of a gang of some nine or ten pirates. In the right background can be seen the Boundary Fence as it goes down to the sea (with some Hong Kong spectators clinging to it to get a good view). To the right, behind the right-hand-most pirate can be seen a few spectators being kept back from the execution site by soldiers (the civilians close to the execution site are Kowloon City Elders invited by the Magistrate)".
Ref. Ove Arup & Partners Hong Kong Ltd, op. cit. section, p. 12.40.
On verso: After the execution of the Namoa pirates. Albumen print, b/w, pasted on cardboard.