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" crime himself will always be able
" to relate the farts of the " confiriciation be only on.
case, and if the on the truth of
"that history without identifying the "persons, that is really
"
at all.
uo corroboration
As to intimidation I think that
the expression of opinion of the
committing etta
Atagistrate that intimidation has been used to secure evidence is
bome out by the statements of the two witnesses to which I beg tarefer the Governor.
To evidence obtained.
by these
meaus little weight should, I eubmit,
To the deposition of Siong Ho
necessary,
Sat Yip I don't think it nee again to refer except that it would.
tend to prove that the accused is known
in his village
as a salt bader or salt
houver
wear
often.
snuggler that he has witness and that he is to be seen
The next witness called was -
Sam Kine Pin fruely a hawker
now a soldier. Ite said be knew chefoud
dant when he (withers) was
a
hanker and he knows where he lives; and he gives
an accoucet
to arrest
the
of his
1
brying village in
July
accused in
1885. He state that
a Mandarin was sent with 500 men to arrest the accused and that the
accund Managed
I to get away from
them.
It is
this story.
very difficult to believe but if it be truse it would
prove that the reaused was to be
fore