CO129-226 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [4-5] — Page 102

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but farmers; this is important as bearing the question whether the witucesce

-pere ever

on board the juck,

Buch the most serious objections

against the reception of the

reception of the evidence of

these two wow Cheng A Fung

Cheung Tuing

care that they

to cre

or

accomplices, that their evidence is not corroborated cuid that pressure intimidation has been brought to bear

tticus.

expon

That they

were accomplices is, Iow

think, clearly proved from their own

statement, Cheung

Fung says

"I have

"Keown defondant along time, defendant

" has a boat and follown piracy.

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" 30

Iwas

days in defendant's book " True it

is that in his first exausination, he

first

said I did not know it was a piratical

went

juck when Iwout on board, best he

کریا

also

"Iknew

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before,

that sometimes

"he

was a trader, and souatives a pirate:

Aud

گر هم

I just before he had stated, "we were

tão arid carried to ce

" pirated

In fai

"cargo."

- fairures to the cintureses I think

that their statement should be

e judged

said on

only according to what they the occasion of their secondexamination as great objections aguiust the competency of the 1. ncterpreter were whitstell? Chlinger appear to have.

Were Mita de

a very competent

Chung Tiong says he know

rocured from his childhood; he comes

from the

t

and

village; he is a

boatuan

& follour piracy; he has a junt.

piratical jente -

be

22

Ithink there can

doubt, they both knew that Fc.

jink

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