Tragic Result of a Joke
The occupants of the Russian frontier station, Alimta. on the Chinese border, were recently murdered, and tbe station burned down. An investigation showed the outrage to be the result of a stupid joke. Tin* station manager had two grown daughters, whom in jest he sold to a couple of Chinamen, forgetting that suoh a bargain in China is both common and lawful. His visitors took the offer in earnest, and paid a part of the purchase money down, promising to return with tbe rest. When it wuh too late the father protested that he was not in earnest, but the Chinamen would not listen, and went away. Alarmed for his daughters' safety, the station manager sent them to a neighbouring military post, and when their would-be owners returned, pretended that they had disappeared mysteriously The Chinamen, furious at what seemed to them a breach oi faith, fell upon him with their knives and killed him. A Cossack, who was the only other person at the station, ! si.ared his fate, and ihe murderers burned the building. On demand of the Russian authorities they were afterward." seized und executed
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Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 3, 17 June 1884, Page 3
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