Arizona republican., 1900-09-03

She was visiting the Ellistons in Sinu. her husband at that time being a coal merchant in Shanghai. On the night of June 25 she and two women friends called at the house of the British con sular agent. A. T. Rolfe. The three left there for home about o'clock. As they stepped into the. street a Russian detective stopped them, with a warn ing to leave the city soon as pos sible. as the boxers were angry at all Europeans.
 The women reached the Ellist1n house without having met any ob- stacles. and Mrs. Crane says she was beginning to regard the Russian with suspicion when there came a knock at the front door,
 One of the women," she said, ''went to the door and asked what was want cd. She could see. huddled on the porch near the door. a dozen Chiname of the lowest type. One man asked in broken English for MT. Elliston, and receiving no response, all threw their combined weight against the door. The door was heavily built, however and did not yield to their strength. Finally
 
 his head into the apartment"
 Mrs. Crane. who had been watching the proceedings in the dim light in the ! hall, felt that their time had come If something was not done quickly. She rushed to the next room and procured a revolver. Running back, she saw the boxer who had made his entrance pull . ing another one into the room by the scruff of the neck Without waiting to ask questions, she immediately fired upon the fellow in the room, who dropped without a sound. The second boxer was now far enough above the sill to make a good mark, so Mrs. Crane | stepped up to him and shot him square Iy in the breast. He fell back into the crowd.
 "G felt as if we were all going to be murdered" said Mrs. Crane, but l learned to shoot in Minnesota, and I did not propose to die without a strug- gle My husband had given me q re- VOlver when I left Shanghai, and re- quested me to keep it always near mo. !, That I had presence of mind enough to f get it and use it seems more wonderful to me now that it is all past than it can to any one else. I don't know how ever nerved myself up to do such thing.
 When the boxers heard the first shots they withdrew a short distance. , and at length we noticed them moving toward the rear of the house. The rear of Mrs. Elliston's dwelling was entirely f unprotected. and l knew if they ever got back there they would certainly kill us all: so I began firing into the crowd. After the fourth shot, my last one one of them dropped, and his com panfons walked away and left him. They paid not the slightest attention to f either him or his fellows who had made l the first attempt to enter the house. The man who got into the window was unconscious, and Mrs. Elliston. a. servant and myself dragged him out , or the house after the others had gone away. We hoped he wasn't dead and somehow managed to drag him a great distance down the street. At least it seemed like great ways. although. as 5 remember it now, it was perhaps not more than i50 feet.
 We returned to the house to find two marines who had been attracted by the shooting. They were consi Ter ably under the influence of liquor. but 7 they had sense enough left to under ? stand what had happened, and the l Knowledge of it sobered them almost immediately. They asked if they could do anything for us, and We told them l what the Russian spy or detective told s us. He said We had better profit by the 9 Information, as they had received the same warning from the same source earlier in the evening
 The next morning about o'clock We all struck out for Wei-Hai, Wal I was so excited that I could scarcely contain myself after it was all over. lut . l was not bit frightened at the time.
 Both of my friends were prostrated with fright and could scarcely stand. It was a terrible experience During the shooting the Chinamen made no attempt to protect themselves I am at d loss to understand their actions, unless they were struck dumb with as tonishment.
 You see, they had learned that Mir. EllistOn and Mr Houcke, a young ci- Vinity student, who lived in the house, were not at home and the fact that they were attacked by women must have dismayed them. Or they may have thought the shots came from some other quarter. Anyway, they did not molest us further. And their indif- ference to the fate of their comrades was very strange. But that is charac- telistic of the Chinese character. They care nothing much about anything eX- cept the graves of their ancestors.
 Tt is some comfort to me, although l acted in self defense, to know that several dead Chinamen were found in the town the next morning. The com fort is in the fact that I do not know for an absolute certainty whether the shots from my revolver actually killed any of them or not. The second man I shot must have been very badly wounded, anyway. I remember that the revolver touched his breast when [ fired."-Chicago Journal
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