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at the trial but he understands

you have had opportunities of

that you

closely examining the prisoner's head before and after the trial.

I have 40. (signed) I. Mr. Price, eActing Colonial Secretary.

No 100.

Colonial Surgeon to Acting Colonial Secretary

-Government Civil Hospital,

Hongkong, 30th July, 1878.

Sir

reply to your letter of

yesterday's

date

the wounds

concerning

of the head received by Cheung a Shin,

I am

were all

of opinion that they produced by a rough stone or

of rock, they

were contused or

abraided wounds.

Only

one wound was

of

Afton; J. Mr. Price,

Noting Colonial Secretary,

fo

pieze

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