Complex sentence: George Crofts (1872--1925) acquired the bell for the museum, he found it in the former Austro-Hungarian Legation, where it had been bought, reportedly by Italian troops after the Boxer uprising of 1900.
Split into simpler sentences: George Crofts (1872--1925) acquired the bell for the museum. He found it in the former Austro-Hungarian Legation, where it had been bought, reportedly by Italian troops after the Boxer uprising of 1900.