Jewellery, Jade stone
bangle, etc.
have
The Executive Government
sent down a full statement
of the charge against him and the evidence in support
thereof.
servants
and that
Two Chinese Police say they know him
they
depose he was at work in his village in 1884
and 1885.
The accused was under
sentence for two years for extorting.
This I submit should
be sufficient to authorise this Government
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or who is known from information
received by the Police to use
Hongkong
as the base
for his
depredations on the mainland,
which many do,
and when
there is not even
an allegation that the fugitive is required
for any political offence, this
case comes under
the rule that
there
should, I submit,
be a
statement
by the Viceroy of the crime
committed
which there
acceded,
to hand
a copy
read at
and
As it is, he
the investigations
and
evidence
of the case
is against the
accused.
The defence in all
cases which have arisen since I have been Acting Attorney
General, has been
that
the
accused, so far
from
having
erred, was
not
guilty
is defended like all the
others will
for many days.
When the Chinese
authorities who
have pled here for the surrender
has pled here,
put one
altogether; that he
is quite innocent
brutally
that
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