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the 19th of January chinaman named Chen-ssu
Police
Cast
before the Pelves Mongistrate
Naken before
charged with the abduction cr
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detention of 2 girls with intent to sell them .
3
emands and
the
After many full investigation of the case
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on
was sentenced by the Magistrate, the 3rd of April to 7 months imprisonment, and upon the 10t of the
same month application
was made for his rendition to the Chinese Authorities through Her Majesty's Consulat Canton
As the prisoner
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undergoing
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his sentence in
then
this
Molony, his Rondition was
clearly
impossible, and a communication to
such effect
was made to Mr Robertson
for the information of the Chinese
Authorities.
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Upon this the Viceroy made application for the Prisoner & rendition when his term of imprisonment should have expired ; alleging that the abduction was committed in Chinese Cerritory and
the 21t Article basing his claim on of the Dreatiz . How far punishment
inflicted here will be a bar to
rendition for the
same a
offence is the question under consideration, and to that I have to draw Your Lordship'=