CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12] — Page 308

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against him, and finally ad 1 Established by Colonel Caine's silence under the reproaches flung out against him from time to time during several years both by the Defendant and other Newspaper Editors in the Colony.

The Defendant pleaded Not Guilty, and that the matters charged in the alleged libel were true, and that their publication was for the public good.

The publication of the libel having been proved, the Defendant, who conducted his own case, called witnesses to support his second plea.

The first witness was Taun Choy, a well-known, respectable (in a pecuniary sense) and astute Chinaman. He had been examined during an investigation several years back into the principal matter charged in the present libel, though at that time it was in an insidious form, under which it was intended to make it appear that the charge of extortion was levelled against Colonel Caine's servants, not against himself. On that occasion Taun Choy had given evidence in...

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305against him, and finally ad 1 Established by Colonel Caine's silence under the reproaches flung out against him from time to time during several years both by the Defendant and other Newspaper Editors in the Colony.The Defendant pleaded Not Guilty, and that the matters charged in the alleged libel were true, and that their publication was for the public good.The publication of the libel having been proved, the Defendant, who conducted his own case, called witnesses to support his second plea.The first witness was Taun Choy, a well-known, respectable (in a pecuniary sense) and astute Chinaman. He had been examined during an investigation several years back into the principal matter charged in the present libel, though at that time it was in an insidious form, under which it was intended to make it appear that the charge of extortion was levelled against Colonel Caine's servants, not against himself. On that occasion Taun Choy had given evidence in...

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