Mr. Wong, the Quinsan Magistrate, took his own time about holding the inquest, and it was almost a week after the murder before the inquest was held, and it was then held by Mr. Wong's representative, and not by Mr. Wong himself. From ''the findings" of this inquest, one would conclude that Mr. Eu fell into the canal, and was drowned: when just one glance at the murdered man's poor battered head would be proof enough that he was beaten to death It took Mr. Wong two weeks to arrest two of the five ringleaders of the mob, although these men together with other members of the mob, were openly seen daily in the teashops. A week following the murder, these ringleaders together with their friends, held quite a large "way" (an assembly, or mass meeting) in the temple at Kehmo to discuss ways and means of preventing any more mission work being done in or near Kehmo. Mr. Wong arrested these two men only after strong pressure had been brought to bear upon him from the Soochow Taoyin.
Mr. Wong's delays are not surprising, for he is a Soochow mao, and comes from a Soochow family, who are notoriously anti-foreign and anti-Christian.
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