Now
says
male Prisoner stabbed
Foreigner in the breast. Prisoner
and wife afterwards threw the body into the water; boty lead motionlen
and sunk it ruce. First prisoner then altered course
of
boat to
Shaw Kok. Boyes broken cannot.
Lay
whether contents were kept - No erou cramination,
Charles May- Magistrate on being sworn proved voluntary statement
Male prisoner after being crutioned that it might be used at the trial.
F
·Statement.
Y
First Prisoner states I took an
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American gentleman in my boat from a Thip off Aberdeen about. soclock on the 15 May. In the
15th
evening about 9 oclock when near Far trow the wind was Howing
strong
I observed the gentleman get
up from the deck near the middle of the boat where he was
asleep.
that
was
be
lying
arked me what place
I told him Har tsow he
then asked me what time I should arrive at Macas. I told him about 12 o'clock. The gentleruan then went to the side the boat
of
to make water. I saw him fall
into the water, but what caused
him to fall I do not know,