October 12th,—(1) Wan-tun, a native of the Lo-ling District' im Shantung, suffered from attacks of insanity, but had never given any serious trouble. His father, to whom he had been a dutiful son, persuaded the neighbours not to report the matter to the authorities for fear he should be placed confinement. During one of his fits, a few nese Minister at Berlin, purchased 3 steel months ago, he seized a vegetable chopper uns, with 21 chambers each, for the and hacked his father horribly about the nton Government, and a fcr-chieh (2) throat and head. He then rushed out into piece of ordnance was bought from the firm the street, jumped wildly about and shouted of Telge & Ca., Shanghai. The guns have that he had killed his father. He was been duly supplied with shot, powder, per-prehended, but it was found impossible cussion caps and fittings, and a detailed first to take his evidence as a vacant account of the expenditure will be furnished stare and incoherent answers were all that later on, All the above purchases were could be obtained. A medical examination made prior to the receipt of the Board's of his pulse proved thi his madness was despatch on the subject, the terms of which perfectly veal. The law is that the mur-will be strictly observed in future. derer of a father suffer death by the slow and painful process, and the sentence
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