That your Petitioner was thereupon convicted of being an accessory before the fact to the said act of piracy, and was sentenced to be imprisoned for three years with hard labour, and that the said Lam Apat and Leang Achin were acquitted of the said charges.
That your Petitioner was convicted solely upon the evidence of Te Ape, a common informer and a man of unprincipled character, who admitted that he himself was engaged in the said piracy at Chimms Bay aforesaid—that the evidence given by the said Te Ape upon which your Petitioner was convicted was to the effect, that is to say, "Witness went to Chimme Bay in one boat, and the prisoners in another—that boat had three guns, provisions of iron and one of brass thereon board, fish, vegetables, rice, and several other articles—also two pigs which Aoo supplied, and was to share in the piracy, for which he was to receive a share.
"Witness was in the boat that attacked the large schooner. Aoo was not there. They took about fifty chests of Opium which they brought to Fan to-moon and there divided. Another boat was hired there which brought forty chests to Hongkong, where the three prisoners were then present puts into Aoo's boat—the three prisoners received more than two chests of Opium, besides other things, as said. Too Apo and Aloo received more than two chests.
"For Apeo found guilty of being an accessory before the fact, the substance of the evidence was as follows—that Too Apo, formerly a fisherman, now an informer, he knew the three Prisoners (the said Lam Apat, Leang Ashin, and your Petitioner). Asoo (meaning your Petitioner) said to him he had an armed boat belonging to himself—Witness went with him and the two others to Chimme Bay to attack a schooner for money.
That the said informer Too Apo has since been found guilty of extorting money from persons under threats of intimidation, to the effect that unless he paid a certain sum of money, he would charge the parties with having committed acts of piracy, and who being so convicted on such charge, has been sentenced to hard labour for three years in Her Majesty's Jail of Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong.