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75.
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they
were
escaping
I should
try to
catch them. it would have been
better to have had
my
musket,
if
I had had
mustel I
my
some of
them
might have shot
I should have had ten round-
I might have stopped them
Henry Robert Irwin-
states
Serjeant of Police. I am in
charge
of the Police Detachment stationed at Stone Cutters Island; I took
charge on the 22 instant, I remember the 21st instant, I was present at the 8 o'clock A.M. Parade. I left at 1/2 past 8 a.M. to go to Hong Kong on duty; I had taken two Portuguese
Constables who had been reported
to Hongkong the previous day, and
were detained, and I had
brought two others to replace them. I took the other Portuguese Constable to Hongkong on the 21st when I
was returning, in the Queen's Road
I saw Inspector da Silva who told
me a signal for the Doctor had been made. I said I would
inform him, I did so-
at once. I heard two
more
guns and hastened to the Police Boat
there
was no
got a fullaway Boat and
landed. Police Boat on
the way. I landed.