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the Mph of November acquitted on their trial for muniter, before me on a point of Law because the words "Your statement will be taken down in writing and may be used against you" — The Caution by the Police on the occasion of their making a confession — had not been used.

His Excellency says appendix N = 2 there seems to have been a failure of justice by reason of the rejection of evidence and adds by implication a strong expression of his disapproval of the conduct of the Judge on the suggested ground of rejecting of such evidence.

His Excellency says "it is incredible that in this place and under the circumstances in which this colony is placed any judge should have rejected important evidence on the ground stated by Me".

I am greatly mortified and disappointed that His Excellency who has been a Barrister and a Chief Justice should have censured me in language of great severity on the report of a legal person, the chief of the Police, the witness whose testimony I rejected — Inspected CLO — was inadmissible for several reasons, and whose conduct in extorting a confession appeared to me to be such that in England it would have subjected him to severe censure and to the threat of Mr Justice Pattison referred to in 3. Aus on bimes and

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375 the Mph of November acquitted on their trial for muniter, before me on a point of Law because the words "Your statement will be taken down in writing and may be used against you" The Caution by the Police on the occasion of their making a confession had not been used. His Excellency says appendix N = 2 there seems to have been a failure of justice by reason of the rejection of evidence and adds by implication a strong expression of his disapproval of the conduct of the Judge on the suggested ground of rejecting of such evidence. His Excellency says "it is incredible that in this place and under the circumstances in which this colony is placed any judge should have rejected important evidence on the ground stated by Me". I am greatly mortified and disappointed that His Excellency who has been a Barrister and a Chief Justice should have censured me in language of great severity on the report of a legal person, the chief of the Police, the witness whose testimony I rejected Inspected CLO was inadmissible for several reasons, and whose conduct in extorting a confession appeared to me to be such that in England it would have subjected him to severe censure and to the threat of Mr Justice Pattison referred to in 3. Aus on bimes and
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375

the Mph of November acquitted on their trial

for muniter, before

me on a

a paint of Law

because the words "Your statement will

be taken down

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#

writing

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and

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fused against you

The Caution by the Pulise on the

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justice by

reason

of the rejection of

fevidence and adds by implication

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conduct

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Judge

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ground of rejecting of such evidence.

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in which this laclony is placed any

judge should have refected important

evidence

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on the ground stated by M6

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the

report of a

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such that in Englund it would have subjected him to severe cheservation and to the threat of M Justice Pittison

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referred to in 3. Aus on bimes and

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