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In Hong Kong itself several placards have been posted at the time promising different rewards from 200 to 300 dollars to them who would have captured any of the 13 men, mentioning the shop where to receive the money by delivering the men; but all the placards were signed by men of Jai-ho-pan's party, not by the Chinese Government.
The thirteen Chinese remained ten months in jail and no reclamation came from the Chinese Government; at least when the Court asked for it, it could not be produced.
After having been released by order of the Court in 1887, some of the thirteen men remained in Hong Kong for five years, and not any regular reclamation from the Chinese Government came to Hong Kong.
But instead of claiming them from the Government of Hong Kong, they went to work in England and Marquis Tseng moved them to claim them from the English Government. Why they went there? Has the Chinese Government or the Jai-ho-pan's party which persuaded Marquis Tseng to reclaim them? One of the relatives and party of Jai-ho-pan is a General. To say the least, it is very suspicious.
Lately, the order came from the Imperial Government to seize the men and hand them over to the Chinese Government, but even at present, after three years' time, when the case was dealt with at the Police Court in these last days, not a document could be produced from the Chinese Government at the beginning of the case, and the eleven prisoners have ...