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whether the
prisoner
had been, as he
6.
alleged, struck with a stone, which
question she answered in the negative.
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It turns out however that
some material facts entirely escaped the attention of the Court and of the Jury. butting aside whatever additional evidence
an ar
Attorney might or might not have.
out
for the
been able to ferret
prisoner (such as his usually carrying this chopper. :that it was used by him at his daily work s.) it appears that two Government Officials, the Colonial Surgeon and the Inspector of Police, could have contradicted the evidence of the witness Chun Amui on the not unimportant statements she made respecting the sickle and the stone,
The Colonial Surgeon D' Ayres (who
unfortunately
was not examined at the trial) states that when he saw the prisoner : he had a number of scratches and grazed places about the head, abrasons hardly
more than sufficient to draw a few dreps
of blood, but
on
his forehead
sealp round. one inch shorter wound half
running
long
tvas
with
an inch long
a
a.
into it and this sealp wound
which Dr atyres
saw
bleeding
he is
prepared to swear was beyond all doubt caused by a blow of a stone.
7.
Inspector Swanston who
arrested the accused at Shaukiwan says
ort
his
he pointed out two wounds head. We (the Inspector) got the Key of