(2) A Memorial from the Governor of Anhui reporting the trial and sentence of a soldier, who was convicted of the robbery of government funds, and of the murder of one person and the manslaughter of another. Li Haien-tsai, the criminal, was a native of Po-chou where he worked asa day labourer. Tu March 1885, being out of employment, he and 4 friend, & Honan man, named Sun Fu-jung, enlisted in the Sung Wu battalion, the one being attached to the central division and the other tothe left. The battalion wns soon afterwards transferred to Liu Li-ho in Chihli, and while there the two men met one day and talked over the hardships of a soldier's life, Sun Fu-jung said that he knew of © money chest which was in the tent of one of the officers, and suggested that they ould make an attempt to get possession of Li Hsien-tsai having approved of the iden, the two men slipped away at nightfall to the camp of the officer in question. At midnight Sun Fu-jung entered the camp, got possession of the box, and lowered it over the wall. The two men carried it by turns ton lonely spot, where they opened it, and found it contained ten ingots of silver and bridle, They divided the money between them, and threw away the bridle and the empty box. By keeping on unfrequented roads by day and sleeping. in uninhabited temples by night, Li Helen-tsai, after spending all his share of the spoil, eventually managed to make his way back to his native place in Anhui, where he went to the house of a man named Li Ch'uanhao for ® night's lodging. The man Knowing that his would-be guest was wanted by the authorities, proceeded to take steps for handing him over to justice, and his son Li-po, taking hold of the criminal, held him fast, until the latter, still struggling to make his escape, stabbed his opponent with a knife which he had drawn for purpose of intimidation. Ch'uan-shao himself then closed in upon the criminal, who with blood-thirst intent dealt him a fatal: stab with the knife. Li Helen-ta'ai, having been arrested, has been sentenced to immediate decapitation, in accordance with the law which covers the case of the murder of one person and. the manslaughter of another, both of whom are mel of the family. His companion has been captured in Honan and duly lealt the with by: the authorities-of that province.
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