Tientsin, Oct. 1.
Mr. Lenox Simpson was shot and seriously wounded this evening by three Chinese gunmen, The three Chinese drove up to Mr, impson's residence, presented a fictitious card and asked for an interview. Mr, Simpson was escorting them along the passage to his study when one of the men drew a pistol and fired twice at his back, one bullet penetrating the victim's spinal column and the second going wide, later recorded his exponeness in his book "Indiscreet Letters from: Peking", and although it contains some exaggerations it remains the account yet written of period of Sino-Foreign dis-
His intimate knowledge of the Chinese language served him in good stead for he was appointed an interpreter to the British relief troops and was later attached for some time to the Ist Bengal Lancers. After the Boxer trouble, he left the Customs to pursue the path of a journalist and author, and under the pen same of Putnam
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