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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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