Show SACKS FULL OF HEADS chinese boxers were paid for murdering foreigners k or eigners among the advices brou brought glit by the from china were stories of the arrest of ch liege with the heads beads of foreign sold ers era in sad s it beems that head money of 0 fifty teals is paid for each head bead this fact was brought to 1 by the d of the private papers of viceroy yu lu of tien tsin in hia his day book is an entry which reads paid for tho the heads of two american marines I 1 allej illeta in the advance for the relief of tien tsin 50 for the two t cl guns cap aured on the same occasion the entry explains many eastly in which have been recounted of the kill nm ng of wounded when capt beyts anT and three marines with hi bi n fell at the engagement before usi u arsenal attempts 1 I et e made to decapitate them the next night some illness were found hidden in the millet and trying to escape were bayoneted one clung with to abac which when opened was found to contain the head of a united states marine gun ner watkins |