CO129-149 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [1-4] — Page 285

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-It is to be regretted that the Coom = missioners should, as before remarked, have travelled so far out of their

Province, as

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appears by this Storagraph; but as they have thought proper to express their opinion to the course pursued by

Attorney General in act Rosscuting

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the various

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who

gave

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evidence before the Magistrate against the man accused of the Holworthy Murder, it is desirable that I should take some notice of it.

An

any.

The real Issue to be tried

such. Prosecution would have been the Yuilt of Innocence

of the accused, and it would have been

a monsbious course to attempt de

presente those Witnesses before the

intended Iricel of the accused avas

over

As for prosecuting either

or the other, after

set of Witnesses

the discharge of

The accused without

a trial, I satisfied myself from the Materials before

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That This

could not be done with the slightest

prospect of success.

avhe

With regard to the Old Women.

was committed for

mmitted for Strial, there was in addition a legal obstacle.

to a Shrovention, namely, Heat the

evidence whish the

gave before

the Magistrate, and upon schist

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