(2) The Governor of Turkestan reports the trial of certain persons concerned in causing the death of a man by suffocation, Li Hung-chien and Li Ch'ang-sheng were two Szechuen men living in Turkestan, Ssu Chan-yuan whose death they caused was wu acquaintance of theirs with whom they were on friendly terms. One day he was passing their door, when he met a man named Ho Yit-lung, who asked him to pay adept that he owed. High words passed, and a scuffle commenced, in which Ssu Chan yuan drew a knife and stabbed his creditor and another man who came to separate them, so severely that they both dropped on the ground. Li Hung-chien came out and tol two other persons, Ch'en Chan-pino and Teng Mu-chiang to arrest Ssu Chan-yuan and tie him to a post till the authorities could be informed. Afterwards Li Ch'ang-sheng came up, and soving
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