Since it was a continuous article, they dramatize the story a little and serialized, and the senior editor of the same newspaper submitted to 'Kinki Hyoron' (The Review of Kinki region) of Kyoto when he retired there that this was noticed by the eyes of Tateki TANI who stressed on "the Suspect theory of Shinsengumi" and IMAI received severe criticisms.
この際、続きものの記事であったことから多少脚色を加えて掲載していたところ、当時の同新聞編集長が退職後、京都へ戻った折に同地の「近畿評論」なる雑誌へそのまま寄稿、これが”新選組犯人説”を強固に主張する谷干城の目に止まり、今井に対して厳しい非難が浴びせられた。