Manchu garrison at Ch'ingchou in Shantung reports the suicide under mysterious circumstances of Lo-fu, the Military Commandant of the town of Téchou. A few months ago the Iste Governor of Shantung wrote to the memorialist stating that he had received a petition from the deceased, relative to an attempt which he believed would be made upon his life by certain soldiers in the Manchu encampment, one of whom was represented to be an adept the Governor's advice, the memorialist, in the practice of witchcraft. Acting pon deputed an officer of the garrison to join the magistrate of the district in investigating the matter. The evidence proved to be of a most conflicting nature and an application was made for having the case heard by the higher Court. Before, however, this could be entertained intelligence was received that Lo-fu had shot himself, no cause for the act being assigned. The magistrate who held an inquest upon the
teeth firmly set, the left hand half open, found the mouth and eyes closed, the and the right grasping a gun. There were wounds measuring about an inch in circum. ference in the breast and the pit of the stomach, from which clotted blood and discoloured matter were oozing out. Attached to-his girdle there was. strip of red paper on which there was sown writing, charging three men by name with having entered into a secret conspiracy to take his life. The memorialist does not think that the deceased was & man who would venture upon such a rash act without some cause and he intimates his intention of having the matter sifted to the bottom.
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