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Show ou STABBED TO DEATH BY JAP BURGLAR Tokio, July 1G. The Rev W. A. F. Campbell and his wife, Canadian missionaries, mis-sionaries, were stabbed to death by a burglar early this morning in their summer cottage at Karulzawa, The weapon used was a Japanese short sword. Karulzawa, which is an American Amer-ican missionary summer center, has been greatly excited by the murder. At 2 : 30 o'clock this morning, according accord-ing to the police accounts, a Japanese, dresed In foreign garb, entered a second sec-ond story window of the cottage and, after awakening the missionaries, de-'manded de-'manded money. This being refused, (lie intruder plunged a short sword into Mr. Campbell's breast, mortally wounding him, Mrs. Campbell struggled heroically with the assailant and was stabbed repeatedly, succumbing to her wounds a few hours later. At the point of his sword, the burglar, burg-lar, the police say, forced the Japanese Jap-anese maid to disclose the cash box and then made his escape with tho $10.50 which it contained. The Rev. Mr. Campbell recently volunteered vol-unteered for service with a Canadian contingent in the European war and was about to return home. Tho Rev. W. A. F. Campbell and Mrs. Campbell were sent out to the far east by the Methodist church in Canada. They had been engaged in evangelistic work in Japan since September, Sep-tember, 1913. Karulzawa is a small town at an elevation of 31S0 feet in Shinano province, pro-vince, eighty-seven miles northwest of Tokio. It is a favorite summering place for Protestant missionaries, nr |