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Overview Fan Shouzhi was a Named Individual.
Identity Historical · Male
Life and dates Attested activity Family
Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.
Places and affiliations At Huoqiu 霍丘 · Relation Native or residentEvents and relationships Falsely reported murdered
Legal · Supposed victim
Fled gambling debts then surrendered
Personal · Fugitive
Left home after quarrel
Personal · Subject
Stayed overnight
Travel · Lodger · At Chen household 陳姓家
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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 359 Volume 359 Biographies 146: Yue Qi, Jing Daoqian, Xie Qikun, Li Diantu, Zhang Shicheng, Wang Shaolan, Li Yichou, Qian Kai, He Shunwu · 4 passages
霍丘民範受之者，贅於顧氏，與妻反目，外出久不歸。
A Huoqiu man named Fan Shouzhi had married into the Gu family as a son-in-law. He and his wife quarreled, and he left home for a long time without returning.
縣令誤聽訛言，謂其妻私於鄰楊三，鍛鍊成獄，當顧氏、楊三謀殺罪，其母與弟及傭工某加功，實無左證，五人者不勝刑，皆誣服。
The county magistrate believed false rumors that Fan's wife had been intimate with a neighbor named Yang San. The case was tortured into shape, and the Gu woman, Yang San, her mother, her brother, and a hired laborer were all convicted of plotting Fan's murder as accomplices. There was in fact no corroborating evidence, but the five could not endure the torture and all confessed falsely.
使幹吏偵之，至陳姓家，言正月十五夜受之曾過宿，而讞曰被殺在十三日，乃緩系諸囚，嚴緝受之。
He sent capable officers to investigate. At a household surnamed Chen they learned that on the night of the fifteenth of the first month Fan Shouzhi had stayed there, while the verdict held that he had been killed on the thirteenth. He then eased the prisoners' confinement and ordered a strict search for Fan Shouzhi.
久之，受之忽自歸，則以負博遠避，不敢使家人知所在，今始聞大獄起，乃歸投案也。
After a long while Fan Shouzhi suddenly returned on his own. He had fled far away to escape gambling debts and had not dared let his family know where he was. Only now, hearing that a major case had arisen, did he come back to give himself up.