Others, acting in gangs or dependently, were busy searching] for concealed wealth. In the frantic "feast of greed," the interiors of shops Were literally torn to pieces. Merchandise and household effects of every description were littered all about or thrown out into the streets All this, more or less, systematic Tooting was not unmixed with Yandalism, pure and simple.
The bandits appropriated for themselves Jouly "such aitieles as represented very considerable value in proptrsion in' bulk ud weight (principhlmangy, jewellery and opium), Yat other fstieles of value, quite ufeess. to.thesn, were not' spared, were rotliléssly smashed, burned for jothernige: destroyed or' damag} And Ap histor of havoc Jcomplete, in'an}. one place, and Premiéés had bees thoroughly ted of-al] that the spoilers want that place would be fred bef iboing abandoned: for some new field of activity, successful may be illustrated by the following thoroughly authenticated fact. A captured merchant, press-to the limit of endurance by torture, admitted that he owned cealed money and would lead captors to it. He did so. He told them where to dig, and they unearthed a booty of 600,000 silver dollars, The miserable owner was then and there shot dead, but the why and wherefore do not concern this preterit writing and will be disclosed in due course in an article covering side lights on band-try,
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