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support of
the
charge.
It was
discredited at the time. If
e
has now
entirely escaped the witness's memories. Notwithstanding the numerous points suggested by the Defendant's Examinative from which his memory might
have started, Tam-a-
remembered
he
was not
Prosecutor.
They positively nothing. Of course
cross-examined for the
The second witness called
for
the
defense
was A-tai, a
Ship's Comprador (quasi purveyor)
of nearly 20 years standing
in Hei-joing. He was one of the
original partners in the
Market which was said to have
been taxed in a variety of ways
by
or in the
name
of
the Prosecutor. On examination,
however, he failed to give any
the slightest evidence whatever
of any act of extortions having
been committed on
the Market
proprietors by any one.
A shameful attempt was made to drag before the public some pecuniary difficulty of Colonel Caine in consequence of which the interests had employed the services of
an
Attorney in the town at a
time when Colonel Caine was
leaving the Colony
sick...