The other two called the police.
Edgar, meanwhile, entered his own house.

Four policemen broke open his door, and the instant Edgar came out into the passage, Policeman Jones shot him dead with a revolver.

"A mere police row," says Dr.Kuyper.
Jones was arrested next morning, but straightway released upon a bail of L200.

The money was not even paid in, but carried over to be deducted monthly from the future salaries of other members of the Johannesburg police force.
Feeling was strong among the other English workmen, many of whom knew Edgar; and this feeling was intensified by the subsequent parody of justice.
3 .-- _An Ingenious Collusion._ The State Attorney, Mr.Smuts, informed the Acting British Agent, Mr.
Fraser, that it would be better to bring a charge against Policeman Jones, for "culpable homicide" than for murder, but that he considered the chance of his conviction by a Boer jury to be very small.

The word "culpable," says Webster (English Dictionary) is "applied to acts which have not the gravity of crime." In this instance, it made Jones' action excusable on the grounds that Edgar struck him with a stick, at the moment of his entering the house.
A journalist, Mr.J.S.Dunn, Editor of _The Critic_, commented upon the action of Dr.Krause, the First Public Prosecutor.