in Hong Kong I did not know who they were!"
This is why we submit the whole of the direct evidence against the prisoner. If you except, for a moment, that there are two witnesses intending to speak the truth, their evidence would have weight if these events had not occurred between two and three in the morning and if there had not been about sixty (fifty, right according to My Mei Yoon) robbers all dressed in dark clothes, all armed and all having their trousers on upside down.
No evidence was called before her for the defence, as she was instructed that it was utterly impossible for witnesses to risk their lives by giving evidence against Soo for, especially after the experience of the one who gave evidence in the former case and who has been arrested by the Chinese officials in consequence.
But we think it only right to give His Excellency the information we received with reference to Kiran Shap yi, who is put forward in this case as the "respectable" witness for the prosecution. We are told that his father's name was Kiran Shun Teen, who had one wife and three concubines. The family consisted of seven sons and five daughters - the sons were called