Daily Richmond Whig

Courage of a Chinese lady, in Shuntak district.—Soon after her marriage a party of robbers laid a plan to plunder the house in her husband's absence. They got a little smooth faced yellow skinned old man with a hunch-back, and dressed him up like an old woman, that he might personate one of her husband's distant relations, whom she had not yet seen.

It is usual for such to visit newly married people.

The old man dressed in woman's clothes acted his part so well that the lady Chan-she believed that he was what he professed to be, and in the mean time set meat and wine before her guest, of which the apparent old woman ate and drank so heartily, as to appear intoxicated and fell asleep, and was carried into her bed-room. In doing this she observed on the apparent old woman some weapons under her clothes. She was alarmed, but said nothing—then quietly got some cords, and tied down the old woman fast to the bed. She peeped out at the door, and saw about a dozen men, with their faces blackened, standing without. She then barricadoed the door, and taking the gong, went to the top of the house and beat it, by which she alarmed the villagers, who came running to know the cause. The robbers outside fled.

The old woman was searched, and found to be a man named Chang-une, with a number of murderous weapons concealed about him. Four of the robbers were afterwards taken, and transported to Yunnan Province.