An inquest was being held at Wachang over the body of a man who was shot dead in his own doorway, when matters suddenly became quite dramatic. The widow had eon giving hor evidence, and she had told how a knock had been, heard at the door and her husband took a lamp and went to sce who was there. No sooner had he Joosoned the bolts, than aman thrust ina weapon and fired four times. Hez husband dropped dead and the miscreant: fled, Asked by the coroner if she could explain the attack, the widow said that a man named' Shu had. tried to establish illicit relations with her daughter and her husband was about to enter a case against him. Shu had called and tried to settle the matter, but her husband had refused to come to terms with, him. Just at this point in her statement, the widow spotted Shu among the crowd and he made a bolt for the door, but he was!
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