As this is about to be dispatched come fuller details of a preuliatly revolting crime perpetrated in cold blood some ten days since in the T'int'ai district. A man who recently has more than once made himself obnoxious to the authorities, entered by night the dwelling of another, with whom he had a dispute of some trifling nature, and stabbed him to death in seven places. The next morning instead of taking flight, he assembled a number of rowdies, made feasts, and so strengthened his position that when the chehsien arrived later in the day, he could do no more than inspect the mutilated corps and return. Now, the bodyguard having frittered away, the murderer has taken refuge in the Roman Chapel in Tint'ai, and when the magistrate requested him of the resident catechist, the latter informed him in person that he was un-rebared to deliver him up, but could ity of hush money.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.