CO129-089 - Public Offices - 1862 — Page 89

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as nothing could be proved gainst the defendants. Isince all the charges. hought against them only served to prove thein innocence both of these quillemen were a

were acquitted I in the most satisfactory

manner. The Jury would not even hear the counsel for the defendants and the the two days Court during

days that the trial lasted, was a place of amusement, the whose affair ending amidst a general laughter from The Jury

and off rom the people at the Bar, who witnessed this scandalous and arbitrary act of injustice.

Here begins now a cusions and unheard of, case has filled witte indignation

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the whole Community oflis Colony and which will arouse the noble indiguiation 74.5.

On coming out of that very English Jibunal allere both of these quitterren had been acquitted in each

satisfactory manner

to the wisdom owing justice

Justice of the English

of them m

a

Law; one

at

Pastor was again, the very door of the Hall of justiler taken into custody

again

and conducted

from Sa new ways a under. the fovernor to be delivered over to the Chinese foot who claimed him as soon as the chinese Auttionities should call for him.

I need not enter

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