Harbin, Jan. 20.
During the past few months Har-in. this unique among cities, built on Eudopean lines and unlike any other city to be found throughout the Far East, has been singularly free from sensational crime ever since the armed rob bery and murder of the rail cashier, who, accompanied by two soldiers, was driving in a droshky, having on him some Rls. 70,000, ay station to the dininistrative office, when and shot by " gang wf ruffians with their booty. The mystery remains unsolved to this day, the murderers win at large. Of late the ussly inefficient guardians of the place have had an unusually easy time, A few days ago, however, Har bin's population were ast muded and amazed by the news that a wander had been nmuitted in very jiart of the city a rime nit pon alld in the wrt tern of st House Like a Shamble:
The scene of the drama was a one-storied brick—building, awh as were erected in the rash chat took place just before the panese War and which now ave fast disappearing.—The front as a gracer's store, whilst the back sams were occupied as living rooms. The alarm wes given to the police at 9 o'clock in the morning by "through one of the back windows giving on yard, saw something unusual had Entering the house hack de the authorities dis. covered, in the first bedroom, the bodies of the shipkeeper, his wife and a small con of some fi all lay on a bed besmeared with blood done to death in the same manner, the mur-
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