who promised to unearth the plot against us have kept their word. A member of the family, a very shrewd woman, by the use of her opium shop had the whole plot divulged by one of the accomplices, On the 15th of the Chinese third moon a neighbour's child died and was duly buried. This accomplice, with the quack doctor, who had told him that the missionaries would give $20 for the dead body, went at the dead of night to the grave and took the body out and just before daylight on the 25th of the Chinese moon, 7th of May, the body was buried in the mission compound. It was on this morning that they were disturbed by a neighbour calling "thief."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.