called the Wing, the Diwan, the Rivai, the Damn, Chi Seung, That that and Shap Yo.
Two of the daughters died unmarried and one, called af Zai, was married to a man named Wong, who is still living. Of the Brothers, the Kin, and the thickam are dead; this Sung and the Rivai are Military men, while Ohran Shap Yo and the witness, Ohran, are both unmarried.
Shap Yi and Ohran have been in trouble with the mandarins for having committed theft; they were captured by the mandarins in the 4th year of Sheran Shis and have since been employed on board one of the guard boats at Yung Ke as detectives. Dhran Phap Yat, we are told, is still alive.
There appears to have been a robbery at the house of a man called Shran Thurstang, who is no relation of Stevan Shap Tis and Kiran Shap, who were not in the house at the time. A criminal, a dwan (opium den) delinquent, was having become so after being a soldier, and was arrested at the Hi Yo Kr. The above facts have been elicited by Leutan Pháp and we think they are sufficiently probable to justify our asking Excellency to make enquiries as to their truth before putting trust in the evidence given by this man.
If the above statements are correct,