'T's Mu, Governor of Chinese Turkestan, reports a case in which a Turki subject of the empire murdered another of the same lineage through a gambling fray, and the sentence he decreed on the murderer and the other gamblers. The murderer whose, name is Tokhta Akhoun (' Ak-boun" being a title for a dignitary of the Moslem creed) is a native of Hotan and is a husbandman by profession, and previous to the murder of the victim Rahoolat, seemed to be on friendly terms with the latter, However, on the 27th of February, 1892, (Chinese New Year holidays) as Rahoolat and three others, Baihoola, Osman, and Shatula were gambling in the house of a man named Shaitan, Tokhta Akhoun suddenly appeared on the scene, but having no money on his person, bor. rowed a jacket from Hass Han (Han being the designation of a Turki woman) the wife of Shaitan, which he pawned with the then banker, Baihools, for eight hundred Turki cash' (equal to one taol sixty-five cents) and joined the game then gain on, hed game a until 11 o'clock that night, when the party ceased playing, and Ostman and Shatola Were the first At this moment Hasa Han a to ask Tokhta Akhoun for the jacket he had borrowed of her, but the latter having lost everything had' no money to redeem the article and so was forced to ask Baihoola to allow him to take back the jacket, promising to pay him back the money. the next day. This, however, Baihoola refused to do; so Tokhta Akhoun commenced to upbraid the former for his lack of friendship, winding up with swearing at him. Bathoola then retorted by attempting to knock Tokhta Akhoun down with his ity
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