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sense of my responsibility as any of the framers of the Repart - and it is my belief that the man to whose -. detention in Gaol the Report alludes
was one.
of those guilty of the murder_
The evidence of the grass cutting
Was
"Abozreni
highly probable from its very discrepancy in detail _ as between two-
Women
relating
a seene of the Kind.
viewed from tive different stand-points - The forsaken brindles in places found near the spoto the day of the murder proved that some grass cutters had been there and I can testify to the place being a favorite resort of such grass cutters _ The women
in question had mareaner attended regularly for
many Sesions to give their evidence. and it is not surprising, if at last they
- were not forthosming - when on considers how many influences
es can be
and are brought to bear on Chinese Witnesses.
The detained prisoner.
was
marcover mentioned by
by one of the men, who confessed the murder as having "been in it " and nothing but the delays interposed by Her Majesty's Consul- and the death of the murderers, before the prisoner could be identified by them prented that complete proof, which I think was probably possible, had the action of this Government not bun impeded at Canton .
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