The Governor-General at Wuchang reports a tragic occurrence which took place recently at Ch'ichou. A captain in command of the regiment stationed there was seized one morning with a fit of mental derangement during which he killed his wife and his little daughter and afterwards cut his own throat. The soldiers in the barracks wore attracted by the shrieks of his victims but did not reach the house in which the deed was committed until all was over. A coroner's inquest was held on the bodies, and the examination of a number of witnesses conclusively proved that the man was of unsound mind when he perpetrated the crime.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.