Increasingly Hostile Receptions Believed to Be Cause of Sudden Cancellation of Trip there at the time, for, no sooner bad they come into sight, than four of the men brandished pistols and fired about 20 shots, most of which appear to have struck their marks, judging by the bullet-riddled bodies.
Villagers scrambled for safety as the first shots rang out and when the Chinese was ordered to go unto the bridge, many of the more curious inhabitants of the hamlet, came out to see the most distressing execution of the man. He did not display a) according to one of the ses, and seemed to know s in store for him, as he call; knelt down and awaited the end, which came a few seconds afterwards when his assassins presed their pistols against the lower pert of his stomach and fired one shot each. He fell the seven or eight feet into the creek, his bat floating away on the dirty water.
Once their gruesome job finished, the eight men took to their heels in a southerly direction and soon afterwards uniformed Chinese policemen of the "Ta Tao" government came dashing to the scene but did not even bother to take up the chase of the gunmen, presumably because they had batons as their only weapons.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.