them down to the Governor of
Hong Kong for safe custody :
the Governor directed the Inspector of
Police to send for your
prisoners in
Z.
carefully, and
they were confronted with the prisoners,
who each and all pleaded guilty, and it
was decided that they should be handed
over to their
CL21 authorities.
His Excellency the Viceroy of
requested to be kind enough
to hand over these thirteen
Criminals to the Officers at Ping
Jai, who had received his
orders to keep them in safe custody and produce them when required.
Unexpectedly, however, these Convicts have been held back for almost
six months and Le Ping Lai has
been kept waiting for four
months. On the 25th day of
the 2nd month before last (23rd February) Your
Petitioner's counsel requested His Excellency the Governor of Hong Kong to effect the rendition of
the prisoners. A Mr. Ja ssir, who
had fled to Penang and had been