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-perjury in recognizing the witnesses.
were the pretended assailants
Twenty four.
were asked for
and they
more than
thirteen. Why thirteen? He have reason to believe it is a superstitious number:
They
were not looking after the culprits but to satisfy their superstitions. They wanted the 13 who were previously in Jail. Now of the thirteen who were in the Jail before,
some have died and some left the Colony but they wanted thirteen and the man who first hounded over the prisoners to the Police in his own house at West Point in November last knowing that they wanted 13 he pointed out 13 of his guests (it was a dinner party) disregarding that in order to supply the number he pointed to the two young men who could not by their age take part in anything of the kind. The two of course have been recognized as not having taken part and were dismissed.
4 having taken part and being identified from the Jail. There remained eleven, but two of these eleven were not in Jail before, and of the nine left one was not even in the village at the time of the pretended attack.
not
The
of them were really guilty
Further proof of the innocence of the prisoners is this. If they were guilty the Chinese Government would not have lost a moment to reclaim them. Now all the facts prove that the Chinese Government has always been reluctant to claim them.
When in 1880 the prisoners have been arrested by the Police in Kowloon it was not the Chinese Government which denounced them but a Chinaman of Dai-ho-pau's party.
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