(2) At the end of last year the house of a wealthy man, named Ho Kuang-chao, in the District of Ch'ang-sha, was entered by a gang of eleven burglars, who bound the inhabitants, threatened to kill any one who should give the alarm, and then ransacked the place. The carried off by them consisted of three large shoes of sycee, one hundred and seventy taels of fine, silver and a quantity of gold ornaments and clothing. Ten days afterwards the leader of the band was arrested and brought before the magistrate of the district, to whom he confessed that he was an officer of the
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