Harvard University - Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard Business School / Heard family. Heard family business records, Volume FP-4, Folder GQ-2-2, and Volume JP-2.
Mss:766 1754-1898. Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard Business School.
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c(Uty . on their return, however, the mob preesed upon the!. in a threaten-
iug manner and one shot wae fired , which killed a man . This disper.ed
tl:e IiIOb, but the next
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a claim was IllIlde at tM consulate for
life
for
life . Spooner (n.s.) wa. the man who bad fired, and
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consular court wa.
organized to try
h1m.
Hi.
defence ...e self- defence .
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Chinese aallerted,
l
and attempteli to prove , that the
r:IaIl
who waa k1led "as a .imple country-
man. who happened to be pauing at tha t1l!>e , but as it wa. difficult to
undentand what he was doing in
the
front rank of a 100b which "as al;llallt-
int. foreigner • • Spooner was acqw.tted. I understood that Spooner afte:r-
warda ,ilensioned the
man"
family, and auppo&e
ha
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chance that
hi •
.
tory might have besn true .
There wu another riot not far from the lama t1.we, called the
COlIIpton Riot, from the fact that
it
wal brou,;:ht on by an old gentleoan
na;ned Compton, ,\ho waa a veq irascible penon. quarrelling with the keeper
of a fruit .tand. Thil 11.110 res'lllted in the 10111 of aeveral 111'ee .
r. Compton WaB alway. a warked man amant" the Chinese .
There were one or two eventa that bnppened in !!aCao
that
I do
not think: I lOenUoned in their place . One _. the murder of the governor
of !Ul.cao, I think, in t'!:e e8fl,y fHuea. l!e took it into his head
tbat J,lacao had paid tribute to tbe Cbineol goverru..ent long
eno~ ,
and tr.at
M would declare itl Indepen<ience. T"oia of cour.e excited more or 1esl
bad blood, especially wtth the mandarinl. They ecployed men to go to
!.:
acao and aflfluinate
the
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ernor , and they succeeded. in doing 10 . He was
out riding Qne afterno"n beyond the Barrier, witb one or two aids , when
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