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take place

was not his doing, but that Mr. Tarrant made him bring it forward; he spoke in the broken language,

he was

but this was

the substance of what he said; that he wished me to take care of him,

meaning, I supposed, to protect him.

I told him to go to the Attorney General;

he was chinchin'd and went away.

About nine o'clock, the Government Office Comprador, named Achan, came to me in a considerable state of alarm, and told me that Mr. Tarrant had visited his house the preceding evening, after he, Achan, had left the Court of Investigation. I think he said it was after 8 o'clock. He spoke to Achan in broken English and Chinese, and led Achan to suppose that Mr. Tarrant asked him why he did not give such evidence before the Court of Investigation, as would injure Major Caine, and that if he did not do so, Achan would come into trouble. The words he quoted Mr. Tarrant as using were, "What for you no have spoil Major Caine before? You no do so, catch trouble." I asked him if he had any witness to this; he said he had. On the afternoon of the 9th of July, he again came to me, and seemed more alarmed than before, and said that that morning, when at Mr. Tarrant's office at the Government offices, Mr. Tarrant again questioned him, and asked why he did not give evidence to injure Major Caine; that if he did not do so he would have trouble; he further told him to come to Mr. Cleverly now.

The circumstances, coupled with what has taken place at the investigation, when Mr. Tarrant endeavoured to prompt

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take place was not his doing, but that Mr. Tarrant made him bring it forward; he spoke in the broken language, he was but this was the substance of what he said; that he wished me to take care of him, meaning, I supposed, to protect him. I told him to go to the Attorney General; he was chinchin'd and went away. About nine o'clock, the Government Office Comprador, named Achan, came to me in a considerable state of alarm, and told me that Mr. Tarrant had visited his house the preceding evening, after he, Achan, had left the Court of Investigation. I think he said it was after 8 o'clock. He spoke to Achan in broken English and Chinese, and led Achan to suppose that Mr. Tarrant asked him why he did not give such evidence before the Court of Investigation, as would injure Major Caine, and that if he did not do so, Achan would come into trouble. The words he quoted Mr. Tarrant as using were, "What for you no have spoil Major Caine before? You no do so, catch trouble." I asked him if he had any witness to this; he said he had. On the afternoon of the 9th of July, he again came to me, and seemed more alarmed than before, and said that that morning, when at Mr. Tarrant's office at the Government offices, Mr. Tarrant again questioned him, and asked why he did not give evidence to injure Major Caine; that if he did not do so he would have trouble; he further told him to come to Mr. Cleverly now. The circumstances, coupled with what has taken place at the investigation, when Mr. Tarrant endeavoured to prompt
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take place

was aut his doing, but that Mr. Tarrant made him bring it forward; ho spoke in the broken language,

he

tvas

but this

the substance of what he said- ; that he wished me to take care)

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meaning, I suffered, to protect. hive.

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I told him to go to the Alémey General;

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be chinchin'd and went

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