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YOUR EXCELLENCY,
Ping Shan, April 22, 1899. I SUBMIT herewith a translation of a Chinese petition presented to me here yesterday. As you will see, this petition is presented by Tang Wong Shi, of the Sik Hong village, in the Ha Tsun District, who complains that her husband, Tang A Cheung, who had been sent from Hong Kong to distribute Your Excellency's Proclama- tion in the neighbourhood of Un Long, has been brutally murdered at that place. He was shot there on the 17th instant, after having been cruelly beaten, and his body was put in a pig basket and thrown into a stream. Immediately on receiving this petition, which was presented in person by the petitioner, accompanied by her son, I instituted enquiries, which confirmed the statements contained in the petition. Two of the men implicated in the murder, Tang Tsung Sz and Tang I Shek, had already been known to me as ringleaders in the anti-British movement. Having completed my enquiries, I communicated the result of them to Colonel The O'Gorman, Officer Commanding, and it was determined to proceed to Ha Tsun in the afternoon and to burn the houses of the culprits if the elders corroborated petitioner's statements. I had previously ascertained that all the persons named in the petition as having been implicated in the murder had fled from this territory, and that their present whereabouts are not known. We started from here at 4 p.m. with a party of the Hong Kong Regiment, under the command of Captain Berger, and on arrival at Ha Tsun we were met in the ancestral temple there by the elders of the district, and also by an elder named Ng Ki Cheung, of the Un Long District, where the murder was committed. All the elders corroborated the statements contained in the petition, but said that Tang Chik Ting and Tang Chu Shan, named in the petition as having been implicated in the murder, had nothing to do with it. It was therefore determined to make further enquiries regarding these two men, but to burn forthwith the houses of Tang Tsing Sz, Tang I Shek, and Tang A Wei, and to close four other houses belonging to Tang I Shek. The elders pointed out the houses, and helped to collect material with which to burn them, and the villagers declared that the men whose houses were to be burnt richly deserved whatever punish- ment might be meted out to them, and that two of them, Tang Tsung Sz and Tang I Shek, had been the cause of all the trouble that had occurred. The three houses were burnt, due precautions being taken to prevent the spread of fire to neighbouring houses, and the four other houses belonging to Tang I Shek will be closed pending further instructions from Your Excellency. I informed the elders that the widow of the murdered man would have to be supported by the villages in their district. The widow was present at the burning of the houses. I have ascertained that two of the men whose houses were burned own some land in the Ha Tsun district, which should, I submit, be confiscated, as well as the houses referred to above belonging to Tang I Shek If no legal power at present exists for dealing with property in this manner, I am of opinion that it should be obtained at once, as I strongly recommend that the ringleaders
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