Then came Li Kia-chung, This gentleman occupied the time chiefly in revile the Macheng district magistrate for breaking; faith with him, and demanding that he should be set free, and have better quarters given him. The Macheng magistrate replied that' he could not help it He had een denounced by Consul Ting (Mr. Joh Thyen, who deserves the greatest praise for his efforts in this case) and his arrest had been ordered by the Viceroy. He, Li Kia-chung, denied having issued the picards announcing that the foreigners were to be killed on the 18th, but admitted he had told people so. This disposes of all the prisoners save three, and these are the responsible murderers. They were handed over to the authorities by Li Kia-cling, and are held to be guilty on their own confession. They are all three coolies of the lowest grade. Chu Ts'un-fuh confesses to having ascended the roof, Li Kin-ken to hammering in the door, and Li Wan-fuh to assisting im a general way But now they have rounded on Li Kia-chung, and say that he bade them. Asked what harm the missionaries had done them they said they took out people's yes and stole children. Asked why they collected ten thousand people to kill two, they replied that it rained so heavily on the 17th that the country people could not work in the fields on the 18th, so that all came of their own accord to see the foreigners killed. Asked who stripped the bodies, they replied Li Fuh, who was Li Fuh, they answered one of the runners of the Wolungsis (the Sungpu petty magistrate). The Court, however, shouted Iavintsang, and refused to hear this, so that sitting came to a close.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.