CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7] — Page 9

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

18 to take their hial at the

Supreme Court for Piracy with wounding . One of

the wounded Chinese died Soon after the "Gulnare" arrived in Harbour, and a foroner's Inquest whose verdict was of Justifiable homicide, was held on the body on the 17th March. To facilitate the dispatch of the ship the Chief Justice

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Sessions of the Supreme. Court on the 27th March, a verdict of quilty was

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returned thereat after a kial which lasted the whole

day against all the 18 prismes,

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the chief Justice loft three Agtingsprang, Chrom -Sew and Chun-Amoon for

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execution and ordered a

Sentence of death recorded to be enkred up against the remaining 15. At a meeting of the Executive Council held on Monday the 6th after lengthened investigation of all the circumstances of this case I came to the

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Conclusion, in which however

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