a
struggle in W.? doubtless there
way
great deal of hard swearing by the witnesses on both
It ended however in the accused [o. A pias being discharged & he or his
sides.
attorney
ou a
rather retorted by applying for a warrant for the arrest of the Chinese
charge of Officer Chien Shushien Conspiracy on the grounds of his having suborned witnesses to swear falsely against Lo.st. fins a particularly of having caused the falsification of a Brother Louse Registry where Lo. A. pias resided, in order to prove not in the flory at the time of the
he
way
robberies in
All the witnesses
in question. produced by Lo. A. piss were wither inmates
of or keepers of a Brothel with one
exception.
The Chinese Officer Chen-shuhsien was arrested on the warrant & being brought before the sitting magistrate committed for trial to the Supreme Court, but released on bail.
when
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this be was unquestionably
when the Viceroy heard of impertinelly
much disturbed but I told him then-shu. hoien
had gone too far in Endeavouring to obtain the conviction of Lo. A. pies a advised him to let. matters take their course & he agreed with mur it was better they should, but the same night I wrote privately to the flonial Secretary that I thought the arrest of a Chinese Officer on duty from the Viceroy
rather a strong proceeding, & the answer was that the Executive had nothing to
was a
I got
do with it & that it was in the Police Court. Evidently however the other High Authorities were dissatisfied with the arrest
told me of this man, for the Viceroy that after all his honor was to desert ch'an shu haien, that being sent down on a mission from this fort he was
:protected from the action
or
pledged
not
he considered
If the Houghony Law, a if he broke it, ought to be remitted to his own authorities for punishmrat.
at
I confess I became very uneasy the
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