Papera from China are full of accounts of the most diabolical murders and eoiotdee, also of cues of kidnapping. As regards the former, a blind man tried to blow up hla mother-in-law and her house because his wife constantly took refuge there to avoid hie company; but his plot was un uocessful, and he was himself killed. A woman threw herself into a well at Fatsbam to get tree from her mother-in-law, who llltreated her, and another member of the same eex hung henelf because her busband took another partner, and the widower bad to pay her parents * sum of money to avoid a charge of murder,
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 578, 5 March 1891, Page 2
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