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Lordship's perusal to speak of McLeane
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in a manner
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Severe observation" and "to the threat of MC Justice Patterson To yo yo It is my duty therefore, in justice to M Leave to place fully before Your Lordship the history of this exerted confession", and I will
venture to say
that there
never was a Case
where such observations as those made by
the Chief Justice
were more
inapplicable
or more
unjust.
20. I now enclose a statement by Mr Bench Deane describing the circumstances under which he had examined the prisoners- how he received the Cutter from the Chinese Mandarin at Howloon, together with
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full written confessions previously made
to the Mandarin there, and how he and
endeavoured to take
his Deputy, Mr Breagh,
all practical means to examine the prisoners fairly cautioning them and
one that he need apprehend no
warning
application of Torture here, a warning
which owing to the natural apprehensions of Chinese criminals was
far
more
effectual
to make a Chinese prisoner feel independent
than all the Cautions contained in all the law Books.
21. No person reading Mr Deane's
statement, the Prisoners' Confessions, which are enclosed, being the paper with which Mr Deane refreshed his memory and the Attorney General's exposition of the Law, can for