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may

not have been personally

examined.

Whether he was so examined or not

cannot be known in the absence of Mr. Beane.

Para 5.

The Discretion of the Magistrate as to pemands, as regulated by the peculiar circumstances of each base, and if Mr Deane "stated his belief that widence would be forthcoming to implicate these men in the Murder, the Magistrate very properly ramental them. Even assuming that they innocent it is not the first time that persons have been confined .

Suspicion at home

15 days

012

or in the Colonies, who have

are

Aurned out afterwards to be innocent.

It is a misfortune to which all persons

Arre

lible and to which Individual s

the Interests of Sublic.

must submit, in

Justice, and of the Public Safety :

Faras: 6 and

7

I presume no fault is found with these proceedlings .

Para: 9.

If Me Downe had obtained further. Covidence corroborating that of. Tang - Tak - Tho, which he had previously disbelieved, he

undoubtedly justifiect in again seizing the Junk, and. the evidence before the __ Magistrate.

and bringing

alf

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