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against the prisoner

the interval that is

and no.

the

21st June Ng Leying-lund

for Ng Mi Foor

and

Kwan Pok chaw sent for.

Kwan Thap Hi

Re

places

Ying

o Ma

ki be

being

and Chan Maw.

Ling

ad

a considerable

distance from each other and

reports having been made

the witnesses it is by any of

extremely curious that the justices at the two places

should have been able on

the same

day

the identical

only

the prisoner part in

A

have been

to send for

and the

who could identify Laving taken

burglary said to

Y mouths before.

It

must also be

remembered that the identification

in the Gaol amounts to little because the witnesses

had been in the Colony four

or five days before they were

asked to

go

into the Gaol

and identify the accused

who had been

more than

in custody between the arrival of these witnesses

and their identification of the accused.

identifying the

The Council

on this evidence refused

to hand

over

the accused.

5.) Edes. J. Ackroyd).

Acting Attorney General

7th September, 1857.

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