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have taken in this matter.
I have fo
(sd) Rederick Stewart.
Colonial Secretary
Report by the Acting Attorney General
I have not interfered or wished
to
interfere
in
any way
whatever
with the Magistrate's discretion.
The Magistrate
stated
that he would postpone the
remand case
from
week to
week until the perjury case
was concluded.
This I pointed out was irregular, and justified by
no law or precedent;
on
the contrary it had been
condemned by Judges.
The Magistrate
could have
only
one
object in waiting
for
the decision in the
perjury case; that was, to be
guided by it, and that
he should not do.
Again, the Magistrate
stated, and has recorded it
in
the depositions, that, in
the event of perjury being proved against the witness Leung You, it would
vitiate the whole of the evidence against the prisoners.
The Magistrate is wrong
again here. He has nothing
to do with the verdict
in the
perjury case; he must decide on
the evidence as
given before
him, and nothing else.
I have said nothing
whatever to
influence
the Magistrate's
decision
in any
way