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In recording depositions that in the event of the witness being convicted of perjury I should at once discharge the prisoners, the court was, in my opinion, taking action regarding the prisoners. It was in answer to a question, and it never occurred to me that it could be supposed I was waiting for the guidance of a jury before I could make up my mind. My mind was practically already made up. The record I was making was for the object of providing for my own satisfaction and protection the notice I had given in reply to the question put to me, and I did not think of the particular meaning that might be attached to the word "convicted" by anybody else but myself.
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The Acting Attorney General apparently forgets that I already had the major part of the evidence against Ling Ah You in my own depositions and that there was ample ground for me to come to my own conclusion in the matter, while with regard to what I said about the perjury vitiating the whole proceedings, the rest of the evidence did appear to me so doubtful and suspicious that when assented to by the prosecution...