Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1891 — What it Coats to Murder in Tibet. [ARTICLE]

What it Coats to Murder in Tibet.

-Century, -y-—■ I had arrived in Eanze in an evil hour, iu the midst of the festivities of the 15th of the fourth moon, when the people from far and near congregate there and the chiefs review their men, and drinking and fighting are the order of the day. In Tibet nearly every j crime is punished by the imposition of a fine, and murder is by no means an expensive luxury. The fine varies according to the social standing of the victim—l2o bricks of tea (worth a rupee a brick) for one of the 1 ‘upper ten,” 80 bricks for a person of the middle classes, 40 bricks forawoman, and So on down to two or three for a pauper or a wandering foreigner, a Lieutenant, Lu Ming.y-ang'kindly informed me. He said that there was hardly a grown, up man in the country who had not a murder or two to his credit; and latter on Mgr. Biet,the Bishop of Tibet corroborated this statement. i