The Archive · 1889

Strange Behaviour of an Officer of the Life Guards

A Censor reports that when sitting at home one day last month, an officer of the Life Guards of the name of Li K'ai-yang asked to see him, and walked straight into is drawing-room before he had time to withdraw. He knelt down, and pointing to some wounds on his person, sued for redress, but when questioned as to his assailants, was unable to give any account of them. A woman, however, whose reputation was not above suspicion, subsequently appeared upon the scene and charged the man with having created a disturbance in her house. The woman was placed under the surveillance of an official female guardian, and her house was closed up. The officer turned up another day in Plain dress in the Censor's Court, and when ordered to state his grievances, if he had any, upon his knees, he became refractory and regardless of the decorum proper to the place. The Censor suspects that the maltreatment which the man received was brought on by his own rowdy conduct, and requests that he should be cashiered as a case. preparation for the full investigation of the pecrapatios or orf€rats oF BOARD oF

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