was committed the other evening, by whom has not transpired, upon one of the Méngho shepherds, between Suichou and Hsiho. Two severe scalp wounds and a badly cut throat were found upon the man, around whose body the remaining sheep out of his flock were found at early dawn. His belt in which silver had been kept was chopped in several places and all thesilyerextracted. The only thing found upon him was a paper giving particulars of himself and companion and the number of sheep each was bringing down. They seem to have separated a day or so before, one going to Tehuganfu and this one taking the other road to Hsiho, where he intended selling his sheep.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.