CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12] — Page 610

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That many of the Queen's

Subjects and others resident

Her

within this Colony and the Majesty's Jurisdictions

of

the Five Parts have been

during the last fourteen months, Kidnapped into captivity within this Kwanghing proviner.-

murdered, and beheaded ;-

That these crimes have

been done by hired assasins;-

That the hirer whose

name and seal authenticate

the many public proclamations, Edicts, and handbills, offering

8 for such services

rewards for,

was the villain yeh 5-

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That evidence has been

taken at the Central Police

Station distinctly tracing

the payment of such rewards to the mandaring Lantão and other

of

districts of Kwangtung,

and even to the authorities

Canton itself; -

of

That already

there

has been transported

for life to Labuan

one

wretched chines &

watshman from Stanley

You the crime of high

for

Areason: - that crime

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