W. & S. Ltd. 16679–6,000-10-7.
No.
32.
Hongkong.
My Lord,
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RECR
IR
18 MAR 08
Government House,
Hongkong, 10th.February, 1908.
Referring to No. 407 of the rules
and regulations of His Majesty's Colonial Service, I have
the honour to report that I have commuted a sentence of
death passed at the January Criminal Sessions upon a woman
named Lam Kiu to one of penal servitude for life.
2.
It appeared at the trial that the
prisoner deliberately administered poison to one Cheung
Fuk, whose concubine she was, the motive for the act being
apparently that the deceased had two days prior to his
death detected her in an act of unfaithfulness and had
beaten her. After the man was dead the woman took a dose of
the poison apparently with the intention of cormitting
suicide.
3.
The matter came before the Execut-*
-ive Council in the usual course, who were of the opinion
that the case was clearly proven, with the exception of
RIGHT HONOURABLE
the
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