The Archive · 1903

A Friend of Prince Tuan

A man is ander arrest here who claims to be the notorious Prince Tuan, On examnination he evinced such cleverness in baffling the attempts of the officials to prove him a fraud, as {0 necessitate communication with Peking before tinni sentence is passed. He will doubtless be beheaded. It is evident that he has had intimate associations with the exiled prince, and probably attempted the impersonation with a view to collecting a handed resum of money from sympathetic officials and gentry.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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