CO129-057 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [7] — Page 101

I want to pay the bookkeeper the £7.

7.2.0. He said that I was to pay it. I then asked him what this meant if he objected to take that sum, his demand being for more; I do not recollect Mr. Mitchell's answer. He did not tell me that I was to be liable. He asked not for the directions as to their food given before I arrived here.

They had a very hard and scanty deal of food, and worst of it. They had 10 biscuits diet whatsoever, only dist from the eating line. This lasted until the night before the day of the execution of the two under sentence of death, and for some 17 or 21 days afterwards, about that. More than two lived on the same diet up to the day of execution, that is, about 19 or 20 days.

I was sent for (since the visit of the Colonial Secretary and the Attorney General to this prison) by Mr. Mitchell, to attend him at his house. The Rev. Dr. Legge and Mr. May were there.

They asked me questions. I stated, in answer to Mr. Mitchell, exactly what I have described, and further I stated the circumstances of the most proud to this prison by the Colonial Secretary and Attorney General. We did not question or contradict my statements. Ly. Asi was also present for a few minutes. Only a few words were said to him; I left immediately afterwards, he is a servant of ...

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