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my confidential conversations with the Chirt Justice his

opinion

that the evidence laid

Refore the Jury

did not warrant

de

a conviction. As to the individual among the Jury who dissorted from the pest I

lelive the Jurms have kept

Silence ande

therefore

I am

not in a position to state

whether Mr. Macleod who acted

کی ہے ہم کو

-okesman was that

their spokesm

Bukerhoker

dissentient or not. But whatwer

may

be the opinion as to Almm's

or im

Guilt or have

rro cern ci

and I

expressed none to any

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I do not.

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living being, Consider it quite becoming that a person acquitted of a

Capital offence should in Official Documents written.

а

by

a public Officer be designated " A miserant" a poisoner

wealthy and

"

influential

in

Assassin . I cannot be

inchument in sheining

an

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a

the

Machinery of the Law to Obtain qu'à cunque sia Conviction of an

the

an accused +

pewon and I again must most deliberately repeat my regret that in arcumstances

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