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threatened

the turn affairs had taken as they the possibility of a dip!" Question aris

arising

wo be cumbarrassing to say the least of it but things having gone so far I saw no of avoiding it;

I however

suggested

wh

way

to the

Viceroy the Expediency of awaiting results

av the action of the Police Court in Committing Chen-shu-hsien for trial

only a preliminary, a possibly no conviction

wo be obtained in the supreme Court.

not say

that

my belief

that no

w? Convict on such Evidence because

I did

Jury

Chinese even the best & most Enlightened of

them are

their

own

inclined to interpret suggestions

way

but nevertheless I thought so

a in another shape such proved to be the

Cave.

I need do no more than glance at what followed, the copies of the correpre

W. Ensued fully showing it. Attorney fent having read over

Willimately the

the depositions

taken in the magistrate's Court saw at once

403

there were no grounds for a crown prosecution

& clien. han. hoven Eurrendered to his Bail a

was

discharged by Proclamation.

So caused affair

me some

This ended on

anxiety & Clien-shu haien returned to fanton; but I took the opportunity of

impressing

on the Viceroy the mistake made the Officershe had appl in prithing this forward to conduct the case against- Lo.ch. pias x the necessity in any future

man

A.

било

of sending Officers of sufficient

rank & authority! their position

discovere

to in

Ensure respect for

I told him what I had

namely

that then shu haien

formerly resisted in Hongkong, had served as a runner in the Post Office t

there

has been taken with the Chinese Police

force at Canton

ax a

detective with a view

of utilising his knowledge of the tolong

& its institutions & the first exhibition be

x

it in that line was to retain a

made

of it

Lawyer

there

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