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a Mat Shed with him, within British Kowloon, watching for the prosecutor an offensive weapon
I sentenced him to one year penal servitude and to be three times publicly flogged with twenty-five strokes.
The witnesses were not influenced by any discrepancy, and unquestioned by the prisoners. It was simply an ordinary case of robbery with violence close to this boundary, at the Western Slaughter House, in a boat, but accompanied with such audacity as called for exemplary punishment.
The defence of the first prisoner, unsupported by a title of proof, was that a Mandarin had been staying with him; that the affair was taken from him by the four fishermen under the command of a son of the mandarin; that half of it was given to the mandarin and that the other half was buried in the garden attached to the third prisoner's mat shed to be kept, in other words, to be stolen.
One of the witnesses stated that according to the prisoner, if wrongly accused, he was dealing with the affair taken from the prisoner in front of the Empress of China, if on the prisoner alleged, it has...