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Dunstan Times, Issue 1221, 24 July 1885, Page 3

No health with inactive liver and urinary organs. Take only Hop Bitters made by American Co, bee

A yonng man of the City of Mexico attempted suicide by piercing hia heart with a corkscrew. The American detectives who came over to take hack Maxwell, the St. Louis murderer, inform the Auckland papers that fantan is played in American towns under considerable risks, and that detection is not easy, as informers have a dread of the gambler’s veugeanne reaching them. Thus, just before Detectives Tracey and Badger left St Louis a police raid was made upon a Chinese gambhng-honse, where fantan was played. The police got •’ the office ” through a Chinaman who had been “cleaned out” at the establishment. The two detectives felt satisfiel, from previous experiences, that the man would be marked, and his fate sealed. Their apprehensions were realised, as the night preceding their leaving San Francisco for Auckland telegrams reached there from St. Louis stating that the Chinese had hired four men to assassinate the Chinese police informer, and that he had been murdered.

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