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to procure this evidence. —
intimidation seems to have
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been used. No steps
were
against the accused for
taken
some
"months after the alleged
the alleged crime,
and moreover the Magistrate
has reported that the witnesses
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ve
gavt
their evidence in an
untriestworthy
mammer, and
that intimidation has been
used to procure evidence if not to prevent the attendance of the witnesses for the accused, and that therefore the accused was _
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under
under the circumstances much
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prejudiced in his defence!
I had already received
through the Consul at Canton
an
application from the Viceroy for the extradition of t
this man.
ALL-
—other charges of piracy
sixteen
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murder. I did not therefore order
his discharge.
eAn
enquiry
be held in due course
will
before.
in
the Police Magistrate into all or any of these sixteen charges support of which the Viceroy may bring forward evidence. I annex
for