CO129-113 - MacDonnell - 1866 [5-6] — Page 337

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rehearing- witnesses

was

and that the presence of all

therefore again required;

in Honghing; secondly, explaining very

fully

wherein I considered the Vice Roy's former fileage against torture to be

insufficient,

and

requiring.

it to be made

No 13

22 May,

May, 1866.

thrown in the

induced the lemnant to

thornighly explicit and comprehensive.

12. These various impediments

way appear to have

investigation as interminable, for

regard

the

he

lignified

Nice Roy to abandon the demand made

his intention of advising

No 12

the

1866

19 may.

for the prisoner

13.

He found however in

am-

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interview, which he had with the Vice Ray

a

on the 21st of May- that the latter was resolved to follow up the case, and was prepared to order the allindana second time of all necessary witnesses, as well as to give the explicit pledge- which I had requined.

24

M 14

1866.

May

14.

This he

a een

dingly did in a

letter transmitted by the boneal and

declaring that instructions were be the judicial Commisioner of the

Province to

give

the

issued

prisoner a fair

trial and that "neither before nor after

"Sentence should he suffer any

Kind of

" torture

Ornel

punishment whatever."

15.

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