The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-09-14
HE TAKING OFF OF 7SAO.
lN XNCIDENT OF MA RTTAL JUSTIC CE
 AT PEKIN'S RELIEF.

ae Was Brigand Who Stole and Lied
 Wath Impunity--Thon He BInckmail- Msd and Told the Truth About Himself
 %toSt the Germans-Their Rifles Did the
 Is.s..
 EIn life Tsao was bully: in death a
 taoic. The transition was a tragedy.
 rsao made his home in the Tartar City
 Tad ruled every man whom he could
 oully. He had the strength of Wrest-
 Ear and the heart of an Apache. If
 Ehina had popular government Tsao
 RQtlld have delivered his ward and As
 EEtf1bly district. His Pekinese neigh
 bprA, chiefly small traders and coolies,
 held him in awe. They called him the
 Emperor" and patd tribute when he
 aemanded it.
 The Boxer movement gave Tsao eX-
 epttonal advantages. With a great
 @lash of red across his blouse and a
 6nEer red tassel in his hat, he marched M the front rank of the fanatics, car
 Xipg modern magazine rifle over his
 hQllder and a keen-edged sword at his
 il&sAnd fighting like a bulldog. When
 kA Wasnotf ghting he was stealing and
 60un his brick and mud hovel up under
 me outer wall of the Imperial city was " Warehouse of rich loot. The days of NH legation siege were panicky ones
 0r even the Chinese in Pekin, and Nsao traded in their misfortune.
 srile thief knows no distinction in 6Wnefs. When the rattle of machine T <,,, %t,e, T,,1pO Cbao road told of the XbTiinR of the allies Tsao did not fly
 Iith Boxers, army, and peace popula-
 f6fj; Instead he slipped out of the
 3hS2Sr uniform, donned the jean of
 z{ifAble coolie and when the dusty Jap
 n6se and Russians swarmed into the
 4ft4r city he threw himself at their
 &Sf Rin servile kotow. Then followed fh&t carnival of loot which history will $GSpectably designate as "the relief or
 SeHili,s and the heart of Tsao was light.
 Ie stole with the audacity of brig <f14 Various stories of his daring
 Reached the Congregational mission
 F0m Chinese sources, but they seemed io Incredible that no attention was
 &fd to them With fine regard for
 I8f6iIs the native Christians told how
 ITS had boldly abducted a Chinese Ul #li0 lived but Ii from his house and Ind Successfully resisted all efforts to Tefake her. The Chinese insisted that EI}s was still prisoner in his house &Snd wanted an expedition formed to HIctie her. But thepretty romance only 6t tncredulous smiles from the mis- It09I&ries and the newspaper men.
 IS&o might still be stealing in peace
 s~s~.A TT~ daI nE |ifiI to his crimnal repertoire and it kiIGkly brought his undoing. Some of HIT foreign troops, particularly the | |3Sf mans, were ferociously severe in ISUHiohfng Chinese who had been Box &lff pr were guilty of any misconduct | 4Yld It was a simple matter for Tsao to | bI3&ct tribute from terror-stricken jlijfiaiien under threat of exposure. | x88fIy m the siege, when the Congrega- f163iA1 mission was destroyed, the Chi E13k13 liVinE near it had carted off the G6fiEk that lay in the ruins. It was |xlfnra an act of thrift han theft, but 24f 4&ryed Tsao. By diligent inquiry he HIT fiiad the names of the men who had Hbfdck In their possession and then in 4heNHlne of the mission he notified RfJ fJeiY1s that they must pay for them or gk5& 1proo1airned to the foreign troops S A1a Animation of this daring black |xlf4ii reached the mission and it stirred lfo Hctton The Rev. Dr. Ament and the |Other men were absent, so a committee IQfs five native Christians was delegated t64Watt On Tsao and remonstrate with The party included the deacon U tlie reader, and they were all men |0 bSAce. They carried no arms and Mx 1 l. L |Hcrtptural reproaches. Half an hour |after they sallied forth three of them sEaflfe Kalloping back into the mission |EdRnp0und out of bread and scared blue. aCYIe had run so fast that he had lost II &lioe and had been afraid to stop I0nR enough to pick it up. They all tslhed at once and in different keys. An 3iit4rpreter explained. They had found
 &30 Ut home and had scarcely stated tIjetr mission when he attacked them WILL U bayonet. He jabbed the blade 1ffo the deacon's neck, and then lunged into the readers side.
 The two men fell where they were struck and Tsao dragged them into the h0liae making them prisoners The other three fled. The interpreter made 1t clear that the wounded might bleed {
  actton The American ladies at the f txii1Sion appealed to the newspaper men t 4nd in about two seconds relief party l waS on Tsao's trail. Outside, a small { blix1krd which made khaki feel like ( nu9quito netting was blowing, and the S march was cheerless one. A Chinese 2 fiali-hun on a nice warm day may i havs It's delights, but that morning it a seemed to have some of the chill of the g ytortn Half block from Tsaos house the expedition halted for a conference c Jf commanders The leader said he e 1fdn't mind taking a shot at Tsao but ( Ae wanted to be sure that it was Tsao a when he fired. The strong resemblance Al 5f Chinamen was embarrassing. One if lhen expressed the belief that it was h inWise to take the law in ones own 1, sands. The Germans were policing the a itstrict and were the proper legal au- D .1tOrities to handle the case. Another a Ierious objection existed In the fact is hat the relief expedition had not 2 and man hunt without D O0d is cheerless. f, In the end the relief expedition filed i, ,osvn 10 the German police station and n ormally made complaint. That was fl lard work. Pigeon English was first r; educed to pure Chinese and then o