CO129-183 - Public Offices & Others - 1878 — Page 234

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

morning

to

Cypheral you hardship the

my

date.

recorded in

Despatch ho 64 of

this

days

I have the honour to

be with the highest Respect,

My Lord Your Lordship's

most obedrent

humble Servant

Afd. nove

at

P.S. I considered myself liberty to take the engagement

that the man surrendered thould

not be hanged,

because it appeared

to me that there could be

Lo

doubt respecting the Five following propositions :

/ That embezzling pestlig money

is

ر

114.55

is not a

capital crime.

227

2. That had the accused

ver crime

been guilty of a graver than that of einlogglement, good faith required that his surrender should be asked for

on the ground

and not the

the greater,

greater, and i

leper crime and therefore that embogglement

war

the

gravest crime laid to the charge of the Hong Kong Officer

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