his accomplices in this case
Suffer death in the course of
law,
persons here threaten
to put them to death with their own hands
At a private conversation with Mr. Superintendent to which I understood, myself to be invited, I had also this morning informed him that Since last evening I have had cause to apprehend a failure of prosecution in the event of the poisoners being tried by a jury in the Criminal Court. The common Jurors of Wongking
are not
Generally
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generally men of affluent circumstances; and it is believed,
that most of the houses of business
are in debt to their
own Compradors or Shroffs. These latter again
are strongly of
the party,
or under the influence
of the miscreant Allum, men of wealth and, of course, moneylender having been arrested some of them assisting his friends to his assistance, these Compradors and shroffs
have generally responded to the call; - and they are going
about to sweep on houses
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