Those in police custody by midnight comprised four Formosans, three of them men and one a woman, and Chinese woman suspect. Further arrests were expected; the Formosán woman was taken into custody near the soda fountain of the Great Eastern Hotel, it is w when she was about to victim some clothes Wei's Japanese pass on her, 'There does not, at the moment, appear to have been any political motive for the crime, although the fact that the kidnappers, after demanding $5,000 ransom, agreed to take only $500 seems' somewhat peculiar, in view of the customary cupidity of kidnappers.
On the other hand, the kidnapping theory is strengthened by the fact that before the hostilities Mr. Wei, though nep wealthy, was comfortably off, owing a quantity of land in the country and several rice shops in Chapei. The latter, of course are now a "minus" quantity, while the land is not bringing him in anything either, he has a small grain business which helps him to keep going.
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