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to effect the necessary arrests. Unless this is done, it is feared that the criminals already in custody may have the good fortune to escape punishment and that earnest efforts may be made to apprehend those at large. The case will thus drag on and the season for obtaining redress for pent-up suffering will never come. Petitioner is therefore forced to appeal to the Viceroy and implore him of his goodness to again write on the case upon the attention of the proper authorities, to the end that Kum and the other 12 criminals may be handed over to the officer charged with their conveyance back to Fanton.
It is further asked that the Viceroy will send strict instructions to the Prefect and Magistrates concerned to detail additional detectives within the force to arrest, within a given time, with the aid of the military, Yong Ming-Kong and the others in order that they may be tried with the criminals now in custody.
The Petitioner would add that he is in receipt of a telegram stating that Yong Yat-ip, by whose hand the fatal pistol shot which entered his grandfather's abdomen was fired, made his escape on the 12th
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