The Archive · 1929

Hired Assassins

At court, in attendance at the trial of a criminal case, the writer ran across two of the worst type of these cut-throats, who had been sent out, apparently, to commit combing" outrages. in Kuangtung. They had just been led into the compound of the courthouse officers from the Bureau of Pi Safety. Finding a captain.of police in a talkative mood, your correspondent engaged him in conversation, and the several bundles that had "been brought as evidence of the guilt of the accused were opened

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