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that would certainly be brought against
the charge him, which was one,
I said that
might
be
punished with penal servitude for 14 years _ and
without proofs,
• jury with
I farther told him that no jury
which he did not possess, could possibly accept
the truth of the story he told to
Avas
vieur
taken
me
Wuffam
apparently a good deal aback at this
- of his position, but he said the subject of his flight had been already considered between himself and some friends to whom he had confided his position and that he had in
deter unined "to face it out". Further
consequence
than this I am certain no word.
us on this subject
that evening. suppose
s
he had
evado justice.
word passed between
OLL
that occasion
LO
had I the
had be on
test reason to
slightest
any intention of attempiting
to
I considered, his explanations very.
vague
, and finding
him
very
and unsatisfactory, and uncommunicative, I left upon
I left upon the understanding.
Our interview did not indeed last
that he would call at my
office
OM.
the following
morning.
over a
qquarter of
an hour
oy
teventy
minutes.
at about, so
far
13.
a s
On the same
evening
I remember seven o'clock,
I called at
Government House on His Excellency the Governor
who was then about to start for his residence at the Peak, and I related to him the substance of what had passed between Wuffam and myself. His Excellency very shortly afterwards reduced our conversation to writing, and in the accuracy
of his memorandum I entirely coincide. I am
bat nothing completely certain that.
ava o
said by
Ine
to raise the slightest suspicion in His Exellenoy's
mind that Wuffam contemplated flight to