The Faut'ai Li, who was promoted to} Kansu, died the same day as Yii Hsien. He was asked by his former chief to look after the mother and daughter of Yi, but declined on the score of the danger to himself, He was next requested to pay them is. 50 per mouth, but that too he declined. Yié Hsien thereupon handed to the Imperisl Commissioner a document, written and stamped by the Fant'ai Li, proposing to either burn or kill the missionaries in the house rather than publicly execute them in front of the yamen. This incriminating paper so upset when it was shown to him that he immediately took puisov. Thus in the sane city and at the same time the two chief instigators of the Shansi murders died togettier.
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