CO129-224 - Foreign Office - 1885 — Page 276

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

is not allowed to produce cidence.

in support of

less is

a

his in

nocence and much

/

third party permitted to do so, All that it is competent to the fugitive criminal to do is to plead mistaken. identity, that the offence laid to his

Charge is not one of those named in

the Treaty, Character.

02

that it is of a political

Acting, therefore, on renewed instructions received from my Goo! I have the ponour to request that the 11 fugitives may be handed over to the Chinese :ituthorities for trial, or in the event of Her chagisty's Govt continuing to maintain the competency of the Governor of Hongkong to sit in judgment

on cases of criminal extradition & Co

try them in the absence of a represen- tative of the Sout concerned in them, I am to beg that your Lordshich will

be

be so good as to furnish me

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Ive her

in tha

Copy

of the Proccedings of the Council Meeting Br. Raymondi

at which the cordence

7

was taken & the proops of guilt tendered by the Chinese Govt declared to be insufficient to justify

a belief in the probable guilt of prisoners.

the

The Chinese Ace thouities having at the request of It. M. Govt. consented 1st To give a guaranter for the treatment of prisoners Surrendered by the Hong Kong Authorities.

2nd Having

and Chan. a.

H. ll. Consul

as in the case of Wang Keem on

Kit consented to allow

to be present at the

trial

of

the 11 fugitives, it was thought that they had at last arrived at such

an understanding with H.all. Sov!. would have ensured to

a.0

them

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