Possible Clues:

• Outrageous property development of mine — and Tory
• Vastness — great crime
• Two men, inside six months, perhaps confronted crime
• It seems hugely, horribly wrong
• Monstrousness
• Evil and hatred consuming other ranks
• Hostile state captures soldiers causing outrage
• Major crime resulting from hostility about gold
• Great wickedness or huge size
• Great crime creates ill-will -- men must be caught