CO129-177 - Sir Kennedy Acting Governor Austin Lieut Governor Hennessy - 1877 [1-5] — Page 336

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a Mat Shed with him, within British Kowloon, watching for the prosecutor an offensive weapon

I sentenced him to one year penal servitude and to be three times publicly flogged with twenty-five strokes.

The witnesses were not influenced by any discrepancy, and unquestioned by the prisoners. It was simply an ordinary case of robbery with violence close to this boundary, at the Western Slaughter House, in a boat, but accompanied with such audacity as called for exemplary punishment.

The defence of the first prisoner, unsupported by a title of proof, was that a Mandarin had been staying with him; that the affair was taken from him by the four fishermen under the command of a son of the mandarin; that half of it was given to the mandarin and that the other half was buried in the garden attached to the third prisoner's mat shed to be kept, in other words, to be stolen.

One of the witnesses stated that according to the prisoner, if wrongly accused, he was dealing with the affair taken from the prisoner in front of the Empress of China, if on the prisoner alleged, it has...

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334 a Mat Shed with him, within British Kowloon, watching for the prosecutor an offensive weapon I sentenced him to one year penal servitude and to be three times publicly flogged with twenty-five strokes. The witnesses were not influenced by any discrepancy, and unquestioned by the prisoners. It was simply an ordinary case of robbery with violence close to this boundary, at the Western Slaughter House, in a boat, but accompanied with such audacity as called for exemplary punishment. The defence of the first prisoner, unsupported by a title of proof, was that a Mandarin had been staying with him; that the affair was taken from him by the four fishermen under the command of a son of the mandarin; that half of it was given to the mandarin and that the other half was buried in the garden attached to the third prisoner's mat shed to be kept, in other words, to be stolen. One of the witnesses stated that according to the prisoner, if wrongly accused, he was dealing with the affair taken from the prisoner in front of the Empress of China, if on the prisoner alleged, it has...

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334

a Mat Shed with him, within British

Kawlow, watching for the prosecutor

offemine weapon

I sentenced

year

penal

who

uno

them each to fire ge

servitude and to be three times

publicly flogged with twenty-five

strokes.

The witnesses without

Card was

three

fnued by any discrefraney, and

unquestioned by the primers. It won simply an ordinary

ease

of robbery

with violence close to this blond, al the Western Slaughter Come, in a boat, but accompanied with such | audacity no called for exemplary Junishment:

The defence of the fint pirmauer, unsupported by a title of prof. that a Mandain had bin staying

afrim amuggler; that tation from him

the afrim was

Mear

Lantas by the 14 finismer under

command of a on of the mandarin; I

that half of

Thand arm, and that

Thandarin

half it

quien

to the

no to the wher

buried in the garden

attached to the third

Third prio

meis mată

shed to be kept in other words

to be stolen

One o

that recording to

he was dealing the afrimum

taken,

from the prisoner if wrongly tithew,

taking it in frand of the Empress of China if on the prismer alleged, it has

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