Another case is being tried in the Courts here. A wealthy gentleman of about fifty years of age became enamoured of a sing-song girl and took her into his house as a cone cumine. The girl had a lover whom she has maintained and with whom she did not bronk off relations.
During the night of December 20 the elder gentleman was supposed to have had a fit and died. Tis son was not living at home and th concubine took charge of matters and purchased a coffin, which was sealed up. But the suspicions of the son were aroused in some way and he appealed to the authorities for an inquest on the body of his father. The request was granted, and the coroner's verdict was that the man had been suffocated with wet towels. The sing-song girl and her lover have been arrested and charged with the crime, but there seems to be no reason why they should have done this doed as the son would be the heir to the old man's property. press 58 reorganized the arsenals Shansi Province, and has issued an. order forbidding military command= establish arsenals without hig awake the other half, and B will ie down in his place'
Tam, moreover credibly informa ed that living and sanitary conditions in the Wusih gaol, in which at present there are 582 prisoners, are simply appalling. To cite one instance, 50 men are crowded into a room 20 by 20 ft. with an alcove in one end which is used as a Much more might be written, but enough has been said. 1 think, to Show. that "Siewponts" if "not SMtandpoints" may' diter one he a of extraterris
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