In of a. certain front re. sidence near—Jessfield, we policemen were daily ting duty for the protection of the house. For reasons unknown to outsiders, the two policemen on duty outside the premises suddenly made an attempt to kill the master of the house, who usually returned home at a certain hour every night by a carriage. They loaded their rifles and waited till he turned up. But it happened that the master was delayed somewhere that night, and about the customary time when he used to return home, another car-ringe but unoccupied came rapidly in sight, They mistook it for his carriage and fired at it. When they found the carriage empty, they entered the house and fired several shots at his sleeping apartment, believing him to have sped there already. The policeman on point duty near by hurried to the scene upon hearing the shots, but he was shot through his shoulder and fell down. The two would-be assassins then decamped, bringing their rifles with them.
A strict order has been issued by the Headquarters of the Chinese And Cuticura Ointment occasionsl!y They succeed when others fail.
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