of Wong a how the third convict with a European Constable in the morning after the robbery and then & there he immediately put his hand on Chan a Cheung, Leung a Fuk, and ... as two of the men who had robbed him on his boat near the Western Slaughter House. Before the Committing Magistrate and in the Supreme Court, the man made the same statement, adding that the second prisoner had presented a pistol at him. This witness had previously known all three prisoners. Two boatmen of this witness each identified the two prisoners very distinctly, being close to them at the time of the robbery under circumstances tending to excite their sharpest observation.
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As to the first prisoner, Chan a Chung, his presence at the robbery is unquestioned: but then he alleges that the locus in quo was in Chinese waters beyond a Chinese Island. It is also clear that the third prisoner, Wong a Too, was well convicted as a Receiver. No substantial reason for a contrary view is put forward.
The only question which can arise upon these three statements is as to Leung a Fuk. Now he and the first prisoner were instantly fixed on by the owner of the junk robbed, out of five or six persons. That he was the second prisoner in question is beyond doubt. There was no reason why he...