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THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
THE GAGE STREET MURDER.
(Daily Press, 22nd May.)
No one who reads the evidence adduced at the trial in the Supreme Court of the man arraigned for complicity in what is known as the Gage Street murder can doubt the justice of the sentence of death passed upon him yesterday by the Acting Chief Justice. Though it was not the condemned man who actually fired the shot, his complicity in the murder was clearly established, and by the law of England he is, equally with the actual perpetrator of the outrage, guilty of murder. YEUNG KUE WAN, the victim of the das- tardly crime, was a leader of the reform movement, and in Hongkong followed the profession of a schoolmaster. It was while he wasengaged in teaching a class in Gage Street that the room was entered by two of the cou demned man's confederates and he was fatally shot. It was an absolutely cold-blooded mur- der, deliberately planned and carried out for the sake of monetary rewards and social dis- tinctions ill-befitting the class of men who became the wretched tools of the Chinese Government in this matter. One of the must sensational features of the trial was the clear testimony of the instigation of the murder by the Chinese Government, and the Acting Attorney-General was able not onlyą to aduce testimony that sums amounting to at least $6,000 had been paid to three of the miscreants by the Canton authori- ¦ ties 18 rewards, but 11 28 able to produce in Court The actual patent conferring, under the viceregal seal of Canton, the distinction of Mandarin of the fifth class upon one of the gang who perpetrated the outrage. It has all along been surmised that the murder was carried out by emissaries of the Chinese Government, and now that the fact has been clearly established, it
is to be hoped there will be no delay in i taking the necessary diplomatic action at Peking which the circumstances warrant.
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