he
believes he has a right of
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appeal to the British Minicli
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ab
may
Minister
and desires such appeal be submitted on his behalf.
(signed) A. Gordon
Superintendent
relative to the case
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had
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them
of my
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line of
On the morning of the 19th
August 1883, when returning to
home from duty, I was
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attacked, and stoned, by Chinese mob, in the streets of Honam, Canton. Thinking may
Copy. Statements, and facts,
of J. H. Rogan
how
a
prisoner in Victoria Gaol,
life
who
were
I was tried at Canton in
the Empire of China before Chief Justice si trichard. Semple Remnie, and sentenced to seven spars'
penal servitude, for manslaughter,
September 1883.
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five years Sergeant
of Police in this Colony, from which I resigned in 1873. I then joined the Imperial Chinese
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was in da.
danger
from the mob,
calling out in Chinese
to kill the foreign devil, I fired
my
revolver
over
their heads to
intimidate them. The feeling against all foreigners
this line
very
was ab
had, owing
to the
war with France and China,
having then broken out.
After my
Erial
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finished,
the Crown Advocato, Mr. Wilkinson,
Came
to me
before I was taken on
board
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