CO129-070 - Public Offices - 1858 — Page 305

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purporting to be depositions Encloud by the Faoutae Le fin totally denied that he had made the confession Allributed thing. His well known that in a Cheese Court of Justice Any desired time of wordence may be I often is Elected from prisonerns (and wven from withefres ) by torture, At the same time it is quite probable that Le fin although quilly would refuse to admit the fart whew Interrogated by

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notice that he need hot hope to

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