was perpetrated by a man so skilfully, that the murder was charged to the -on of a wealthy Tae actual murderer was the paramour of the decessed cerns to have waylaid the high road, murre-ed him anddragzed the bods into fields helonsins to tie afore-mentioned owner. Without any" examination into the case the chuchou had the owner arrested and bound him' over to produce the murderer, stid to be his own son. At the end of a month the! chih chou, hearing the accused had gone to} ahizher Court, sent for the wife of the; deceased, wh, during an examination, declared' she did not know the accused. The murderer of her husband was her paramour. She had agreed to the murder so she might be free from her husband, whose only foul: seems to have been his stupidity. She and her paramour are both in prison. The Ixndowner and his son are buth rejoicing in so cheap and so complete an exoneration,
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