Word: channing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Professor S. Wells Williams of Yale College says the story of the beheading of Chin Chin Chan, formerly a student there, must be apocryphal. He cannot trace the letter said to have been received, and is certain no beheading could have been done at Hong Kong, as reported, for that is an English province...
Chin Chin Chan, a Chinese student who left New Haven last year while preparing for Yale, and returned to China, has recently been beheaded in Hong Kong, because he carried on a correspondence with a young lady in New Haven...