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issue fore this arrest of the said Chandik Cheung and others.
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1. During the prosecution of the said Chandik Cheung and others the said Hoki appeared in Court and instructed the Solicitor who was conducting the case for the prosecution.
On Saturday the 26th day of March 1887 was committed for trial to the Supreme Court on a charge of perjury committed in the said case against Leung a You and others. On the following day, that is on Sunday, the 27th day of March at about 11. A.m the above-mentioned Hoki came to my house and in the presence of Chow a Jung and others informed me that since he had been examined as a witness in the case of Regina vs Leung a You the above-named Li Toi had sent a large number of soldiers to Sam Kwai, the native village of the said Hoki, that he had arrested five of the gentry, two lipoes, the said Hoki's elder brother and several of the acquaintances of the said Hoki, about 20 persons in all.
The said Ho Ki further said that the said Li Toi had billeted about 100 soldiers in the ancestral temple of the said Hoki at Sam Kwai aforesaid and that the family of the said Hoki were compelled to supply the said soldiers with food.
The said Ho Ki further said that he had been provided with clothes and passage to Singapore and that he could not attend any further in Court to give evidence on behalf of his husband against the said Leung a You as if he did so the said Li Toi would punish him and his relations.
When the said Ho Ki said this he was dressed in new clothes and was armed with a loaded revolver.
I verily believe the statement of the said Ho Ki to be true and that he is prevented by the said Li Toi from attending to give evidence before the Supreme Court on the trial of the said case.
And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true and by virtue of the provisions of an act made and passed in the sixth year of the reign of his late Majesty King William the Fourth Entitled an act to repeal an act of the present session of Parliament entitled an act for the more effectual abolition of oaths and affirmations taken and made in various departments of the State and to substitute Declarations in lieu thereof and for the more entire suppression of voluntary and extra-judicial oaths and affirmations and to make other provisions for the abolition of oaths and affidavits.
Declared at Victoria Gaol this 31 day of March One thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven. Having first been interpreted by Ho Fook, Interpreter to Chinese, "Moo-sof"?
Before me, J.A. Mong
My Ai Yurk mark.
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