b.
The result so frightened the Chinese Police that it was some time before any information
could be obtained through They said "The
"
their
rel
Lones -
& genuine,
Endes
stolen property had
"bean rooovered - yet the prisoners "discharged, and the Sergiant dismissed,
"the Force !" I explained to them the difficulties in the
case.
itself, and.
that the Sergeant had been sellawed
to
- resign" ; because the fact that be had previously absconded from the Colany in debt (although he- afterwards compounded with his Cuditors) coupled with the want of -corroborative evidence took a
_––
away that confidence which the Magistrate
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should have had in his evidence. To
e person unaagersinted with the prejudices and Class sympathies of the Chinese; the substance of the above will doubtless appear trivial - nevertheless the case of that man - for.
time
man - for a time
paralysed the Chinese Police and
encouraged the Criminal Classes. In April. Cerntetion
в.
Good Gazette, 6.
22. April, 1871
Avas
Ordinance 7 of 1870
disallowed; and the
bad characters that had been confined
under its provisions
were released
from Gaol without any previous information having ban given to + this Bepartment.
17. In May - Crime commenced to
increase, after a lull for the three
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