Presently, alone and forsaken, General Ku Ping-chen sat on the mountain side, revolver in hand waiting calmly the approach of the enemy, who even now were advancing very cautiously to take him, and as two of them drew near to him he informed them Correspondent. that he was the governor of the province Ku, and they immediately attempted to bayonet him, but he was too quick for them and before they touched him he had shot himself through the heart. The two bandits thereupon bayoneted him in the neck nearly severing the head from the body, and making a rough bamboo framework tied the corpse to it and putting a cigarette into the mouth they reared it up against the wall and held it up to the scorn and ridicule of the bandit tribe.
The new government as soon as they heard of the death of Ku immediately ordered that the body should be coffined and gave $3,000 for the purpose, but who eventually got this money is a mystery for the crops was brought. to Yunnanfu in a cheap deal coffin worth about $20 only, and the body had been very unceremoniously thrown into it; minus boots and one stocking, and with part of his undergarments missing. It has now been properly encased in a very costly bier by his family who have spared no expense, having paid nearly $10,000 for the coffin alone; and is now resting in his own garden waiting a favourable opportunity for interment.
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