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me to take
care
of him, meaning, I suppose, to
protect him. I told him to
go.
to the Attorney
General ; he chin - chin ́d and went away.
came
to
me and seemed more alarmed than
before, and said that that
morning
when at
Mr. Parrant's office at the Government offices,
Nert
Mr Tarrant
came to me in
morning Office Comprador named Aoan,
about nine o'clock the Government
ac
considerable state of alarm, and told me
that Mr Tarrant had visited his house the
preceding evening after he, Avan, had left the Court of invectigation . Ithink he said it was
after 8 o'clock. He spoke to me in broken English and Chinese and led me to suppose that Mr. Farrant asked him why he did not
give such evidence before the Court, meaning
the investigation,
as would injure Major Caine, and that if he
did not do so, he Avan would come into trouble.
The words he made use
remember, were
of of as well as I can
#
What for you
no
have talk so
have spoil-um Major Caine before Mr Campbell?
catch trouble." I asked him
You
no do so you
if he had
any witness to this ; he said he had.
On the afternoon of the 9th of July, he again
again questioned him, and asked
injure Major
he
(Aoan)
why he did not give evidence to Caine, that if he did not do so
would have trouble; he further told him to
now. These circumstances,
Come
to Mr.
Cleverly
coupled with what has taken place at the investigation, where Mr Tarrant endeavoured to prompt. Mr Cleverly, have induced me to bring the matter forward
(Signed). W Cainer
2th Witness Chow loan_swnw
2nd
I am a
Government Comprador:
On the 6th July Instant I was examined
by Mr Campbell and between seven and eight
o'clock P.M. I returned to
Farrant
came to
my
my
house. Mr.
house and asked me