and Chit Shang-a, Deputy Military Lieu:
Td Ming, Military Lieutenant-Governor,
tenant-Governor of Ch'ahar, jointly menworinlise about the disgraceful conduct of a gaol-warden who lets out his prisoners for the special purpose of stealing for his own henelit. According to the report of the Comptroller-Generat of the Bordered Jow Bannermen of Ch'ahar (Mongol nomad herdsman) Puyenteleko'rh, a Lieutenant of the Guards, Arpe'rhmed, who had been appointed gaol-warden of Ch'ahar, has been accused of sending away the soldiers on yuard at the prison and setting his pri free to steal for him, and when scoused of doing so by the soldiers in question had bribed them to silence. His accuser, Pu. yents'ululan, " Lieutenant-Colonel of the Goards_at Ch'ahar, states that a Lama priest No'rhpu had complained to him that he (the priest) had lost on the night of the 28th of October, 1892, a chestnut-coloured nuilch cow whose hide he had afterwards recognised in the possession of a country. man named Abtsingtai, This man had confessed that he had exchanged goods for the hide from the hands of the prison soldiers Urd'uand Nasud'u, As this was a serious charge and implicated an officer in the crime of abetting prisoners to steal, the memoria determined to go into the root of the cha ges and accordingly deputed the above muned Comptroller-General and the judicial Commissary of Chrahar to investigate thoroughly into the truth of the whole matter. The following is. their report: The accused Gaolwarden, Lieutenant Arpe'thmed, evinced obstinacy and defiance when questioned and would not tell the truth; but the soldiers on guard at the time of the theft (28th October 1892) Urd'n, Nasud'u and Saitsi'rhu, acknowledged that on that night a prisoner named Sewantu'rhtsi, had been set at liberty and took advantage of it to steal the chestnut-coloured cow of the Lama priest No'rhpu, Moreover that the said prisoner had drought the said cow which he managed to kill and skin, dividing the meat between
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