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Jet Witness for Prosecution.
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Intimately acquainted with hauntings, and her keeping persistenters the hundred be lock prepared a Petition presented it to the Senior Magistrates: Law. He was ordered to bring Magistrate, that I also might make my statement; accordingly presented as Petition to the Mandarin Law, and after waiting for thirteen days at trong lòng, wide to the English Magistrate fainer. My elder brother presented the Petition on the 30th June. I presented mine 18th July Chief.
Witness is questioned by the Chief Magistrate.
Question. After you had found your brother's corpse, did you go and make enquiries to the head man?
Answer. I did not. It was that all the inhabitants of Shainan were friends afraid, that, if I said thing to them on the subject, the corpse would be made away with, and proof of the murder destroyed.
Question. – Did your brother quarrel with Prisoners?
Answer. No. Never have.
Question. Were you ever in debt to Prisoners?
Answer. – No. Never.
Question. Did you ever flirt with your brother's wife to any one?
Answer. No.
Question. Has the woman Wong:neiske, since the death of her husband, cohabited with Alow?
Answer. Yes, until she was taken by the Police.
Question. How do you know this?
Answer. – On the 22nd April I went to Thai-wan, saw Ming:neisher in Lo:Atow's House, and told her to come home to her brother. She said that she would not, as she was then Lo:etton's wife.
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