Those in police custody by mide night comprised four Formosans, three of them men and one a woman, and "a Chinese woman suspect Further arrests were expected; tht Formosan women wag-taken into cus-* tody near the soda fountain of the Great Eastern Hotel, it is understood, when she was about to take the victim some clothes. She carried Mi. Wel'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 do-manding $5,000 ransom, agreed 10 take only '$500 seems' somewhat peculiar, in view of the customary cupidity of kidnapper On the other hand, the kidnapping theory ig strengthened by the fact that before the hostilities 2ar. Wel, though nor wealthy, was comfortably off, owing a quantity of land in country and several rice shops in Chapel, 'The latter, of course are now a' "minus" quantity, while, the land is not bringing him in anything either, he has a small grain busine which helps him to keep going,
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