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"be the same as those already disposed of. "We believe the charges are trumped upones and that the men are invocent
Messrs Jardine Matheson 76° in a letter of 3rd December say. "We send you papers " from which you will learn that the Fireman "Minnick has been sentenced to inipusorment
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" for 2 years, but that Pullen has been discharged
cumy to the (Chinese) Witripes in his case
having gone away
We fully believe mernick was as " innocent as the others, but the authorities were " determined on a conviction, in order to make an example, and to appease the Chimese Popsengers " who considered the prisoner Guilty, that they " preped the charge very hard, and the absence " of the Steamer rendered it impossible to " disprove the charges
We have thus given you extracts from the letters of mess?? Jardine Matheson 76° the trials of the men before the regarding HongKong Courts, and we daresay it is quite
us to make minecesary for
comment upon the statements made by that form, further than
any
that
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