CO129-082 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [8-12] — Page 526

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there is not in my opinion the slightest ground for doubling the

the paper transtated

genuineness of

Mr. Wades but this was just one of Mr fuldwell's statements which,

like his arrested belief in Minchowwvong's innocense, it was impossible, in the absence of the original Kocument, te

disprove..

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Ture

difficulties were still

surther increased by the mandibility of the chinese witnesses who were examined,

скапи

were detected

nearly all

I whom

in untruths.

As

a rule it

May

be

Laid down that Chinese witnesses are

for

more intent on

"making out

"a strong ence" than in telling the truth. It has long since been found impossible to devise any form of rath which would be considered as

binding

chinese

on his conscience by any Witness, and therefore a thinaman

is never

sworn to speak the truth

to deceive by telling a lie is regarded

merely

as an

i

example of cleverness,

but to be found out is discreditable. Amplicit reliance cannot, therefore,

be placed upon

by

the statements made

clinere to the Council, and very

little weight should be attached to them unless they

are corroborated by

unimpeachable testimony. This remark

has special reference to a witnere