days, as short kind previously.
:had the Commission borne in mind the statement made by Spekeikai as circumstances of his being imprisoned/ to the I beg here to repent the made by him because I made by find it has been omitted altogether in the evidence at the statement taken down at the Enquiry) I do not think they would have considered the fact of my accepting bail coupled with the fact of the Chief Magistrate satisfying himself that he was worth the amount, of such moment as to remark on it in their report.
Speakai on being asked if he had not been imprisoned for debt, stated that he had, but that it was done at his request in order that he might rid himself of a partner who was squandering the money of the shop and that his only way of doing it was to get himself arrested and the shop sold off - this he said in Chinese, but as the interpreter was explaining it in English
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