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Centon, and $20,000 for his dead body. With a view to obtaining this reward and no doubt also to gaining official credit, Admiral Ho sent three of his officers to Hongkong in order to try to effect the capture of Hung. For this end they engaged the services of a man named Chang Tso-ting who had some family connection with Hung, having adopted as his son the grandson of Hung's nephew.
Whether Chang made any attempt to arrest or murder Hung is not known, but if so he did not succeed, for it is known that Hung left Hongkong on March 31st for Singapore where he arrived safely. But either because he found the capture of the real Hung too difficult, or for some other reason, Chang determined to substitute for him another man, bearing to him a personal resemblance, and such a person he found in an acquaintance of his at Canton named Wu, who kept an opium den in that city.
Chang went to Canton to see this man and told him he could find him employment at Hongkong if he would come to see him there, and in the evening of March 15th Wu proceeded to Hongkong in pursuance of this invitation. Chang met him on the steamer and took him to a house he had hired, and there entertained him for some days with great apparent hospitality, but during this time he was really making arrangements with the Chinese naval authorities for the removal of the dead body to Canton after the murder he contemplated committing. All being ready, Wu was murdered on the 24th March. His body was seen in Chang's house on the evening of that day, bearing all the marks of a death by violence. Next day Chang engaged coffin carriers who took the body, hidden in a large basket, to a steam launch which conveyed it to an island near Hongkong. There it was transferred to an undertaker's boat, which proceeded to Chik Hom where it was met by a Chinese gunboat, the "Kuang Heng", which was waiting there, and taken to a place near Fu Mun, the headquarters of Admiral Ho.
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Centon, and $20,000 for his dead body. With a view
to obtaining this reward and no doubt also to gaining
official credit, Admiral Ho sent three of his officers
to Hongkong in order to try to effect the capture of
Hung. For this end they engaged the services of a
man named Chang Tso-ting who had some family connec-
tion with Hung, having adopted as his son the grand-
son of Hung's nephew.
Whether Chang made any attempt to arrest or murder
Hung is not known, but if so he did not succeed, for
it is known that Hung left Hongkong on March 31st for
Singapore where he arrived safely. But either because
he found the capture of the real Hung too difficult,
or for some other reason, Chang determined to sub-
stitute for him another man, bearing to him a personal
resemblance, end such a person he found in an acquaint-
ance of his st Canton named Wu, who kept en opium
diven in that city.
Chang went to Canton to see
this man and told him he could find him employment
at Hongkong if he would come to see him there, end in
the evening of March 15th Wu proceeded to Hongkong in
Chang met him on the
pursuance of this invitation.
steamer and took him to a house he had hired, and
there entertained him for some days with great ap-
parent hospitality, but during this time he was
really making arrangements with the Chinese neval
authorities for the removal of the dead body to Can-
ton after the murder he contemplated committing. All
being ready, the men Wu was murdered on the 24th
March. His body was seen in Chang's house on the
evening of that day, bearing all the marks of a death
by violence. Next day Cheng engaged coffin carriers
who took the body, hidden in a large basket, to e
steam launch which conveyed it to an islend near
Hongkong. There it was transferred to an under-
teker's boat, which proceeded to Chik Hom where it
was met by a Chinese gunboat, the "Kuang Heng",which
was waiting there, and taken to a place near Fu Mun,
the headquarters of Admiral Ho.
For the murder of Wu nothing would of course
have been paid to Chang, but he entered into a bond
declering
pursuance
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