At nine o'clock on Saturday night the magistrate held his Court, and the four prisoners—that is the nurse, the cooli woman, Shun-fu, and the husband of the coolie woman—were brought up. The nurse was first examined. The magistrate asked her whether she was the original for of the crime, and she aid she was. She had been severely beaten by the master and mistress, and she gave Shun-fu the skirt to pawn for the purpose of buying arsenic, but Shun-fu did not buy any. The magistrate asked her whether she did not also try chloroform, and he said no; it was the coolie woman who wished to poison the master and mistress with chloroform, when she found that Shun-fu had not bought the arsenic. On the 12th of the 11th moon Shun-fu brought Hu, the assistant cook, to the teashop, and then they deliberated as to what should be done. The magistrate asked her how long she had served her r, and she said since the 19th day of the 2ud moon of this year. The coolie woman had served since the 2nd day of
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