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It was necessary that an example should be made of the murderers.
Mr.Seward, Secretary of State at Washington, took Mr.Webster's view as to the rights of missionaries, and removed the doubts of Mr.
Morris, the American Minister at the Porte, which had occasioned an unfortunate delay; so that he, with Mr.Goddard the Consul General, put matters in train at Adrianople, which led the Pasha of that province to offer four hundred dollars, and soon after as much more, for information that would insure the detection of the assassins, and to distribute bands of soldiers over the country.

Mr.Blunt, the English Consul at Adrianople, offered a reward of ninety dollars on his own responsibility; and with him the Austrian Consul, Mr.
Camerlobe, actively cooeperated.
These efforts resulted in the arrest, conviction, and execution of three of the five engaged in the murder.

The remaining two met with an ignominious and violent death; one having been assassinated, and the other shot down while committing highway robbery in an adjacent province.
A very effectual check was thus put to the brigandage so prevalent before, and the attention of all classes was drawn to the character, position, and aims of the missionaries.
Scarcely a year had elapsed, since Mr.Coffing had fallen by the hands of assassins in Central Turkey; and who can tell how much the punishment inflicted on the murderers of these missionaries, has contributed to the safety of their brethren, or how much it will be instrumental in preventing future massacres of native Christians, as well as missionaries, by fanatical Mohammedans.
The Rev.Henry C.Haskell and wife joined the mission in the autumn of 1862, and assisted Mr.Morse in forming a new station at Sophia, about four days' journey northwest of Philippopolis.

In the following year, Miss Mary E.Reynolds took charge of a school for girls at Eski Zagra, which had been successfully commenced by a young woman from Catholic Bohemia, who spoke the Bulgarian like a native, and gave good evidence of piety.

The school was designed for the education of female teachers.