A horrible discovery was made on Friday morning in a lane leading off the Maloo near the Old Mixed Court. Over the entrance to each alley-way there is a "room which is generally occupied by a watchman, but which is sometimes let for a small sum. The room over the entrance to the alley in question was, on the 19th of the moon, corresponding to the 23rd June, revted'in this way to man and a woman; They hed a mat and one or two small bundles withthe. After taking up their now quarters they were not oon alive again, On Friday morning, person coming out of the alley noticed what appeared to be blood dripping from the floor of this room and forming a pool on the ground. Ho wont up the ladder to gee what was the matter, and there discovered a man and a woman lying together ona mat close to the wall, stone dead. 'Th amall from the bodies was ao horrible thal he beat a hasty retreat and informed th neighbours of what he had seen, Th ico were communicated with, and they act to' work to make enquiries as to who the dead people wore, and how they came by their death. Gur reporter visited the spot in the afternoon, but the effluvia was so powerful that he had retire precipitately from the scene, notwithstanding that Mr. Penfold had previously ordered some carbolic acid to be spread over the place to disinfect it, The box '@ very advanced state of decomposition and perfectly black. From enquiries the police have made, we learn that the bodies werodiscovered by thi of the woman. The woman was the wife of
French Concession, where the man was an the proprietor of an opiumahop on the employs. The two arranged a. plan to elope, and they did ao, taking with them 9, some opium, and a number of opium-pipes; s0 it appears that they intended to start an opium shop on their own account, Both parties are natives of Swatow. How and when their deaths occurred, no one can tell; but it is supposed that the pair committed suicide by taking opium. The police, soon as the discovery was made to them, sent to the tipao of the district, and he communicated with the Che-haien, who Aoclined to take any steps in the matter, as the woman's cousin promised to bury the husband hunted all over Shanghai for her, bodies. When the woman disappeared her
as he did not know what had happened to her. After the discovery, crowds of Chinese blocked up the alley-way and some of them remained there all day, notwithstanding the fearful smell which pervaded the locality.
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