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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
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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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