The city of Nanch'ang has recently been visited by horde of thieves. Quite a large number of houses and shops have been broken into and in some instances the robberies have amounted to no small figures. Many of the every instance they have proved to be thieves have been ig oe and in nearly citizens of Hupeh. One thief was run in the other day by the yamen runners, who in capturing the thief gave him quite a before taking him to the yamen. The result was that, when the thief got to the yani'n, he admitted that he made his living by thieving, but demanded of the magistrate the punishment of his runners for beating him, when it was only their business to arrest him and not to punish. The magistrate was compelled by the thief to punish his meu and this he did by iving them three hundred blows each. bes ing done be was at liberty to punish the thief, whick he did with five hundred blows and compelling him to return the stolen goods.
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