Selasa, 10 Januari 2017

The Chinese Man Who Lost the Lottery, Killed A Man and Took Refuge in a Powder Magazine

He threatened to strike a match, but lawmen called his ‘bluff’. Crime in the 19th-century West wasn’t always as straightforward as outlaws robbing a bank or one man shooting another from ambush. Take the case of one Dong Ng Chang, a Chinese man who in 1898 had been employed at Western Fuse & Explosive Co.in …

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