CO129-229 - Acting Governor Marsh & Public Offices - 1886 [11-12] — Page 181

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evidence.

coming forward and giving

The Magistrate committed

(c

One

of the witnesses, who was connected

with the ferry boat, as an

in the act, but he was

accomplice

exbrequently

as in the opinion of the

discharged, Acting Attorney.

Several there was

not sufficient evidence to sustain the

charge.

The Viceroy,

Jam informed,

retained Counsel here to defend this

the event of further

witness in the event

taken against

proceedings being taken

him.

I have re

Sof M. H. Marsh.

Sin,

is.

Sub-Enclosure A

Magistracy,

179

26th November, 1886,

evidence

care

f

As it appears that no further ... is forthcoming at present in the case of Afung, which was sent to me for investigation, I have the honour now to forward, for the information of His Excellency the Acting Governor, the statement

of the various witnesses

examined by me.

In doing so I would wish to express my

appreciation of the valuable services rendered

by Inspector Thompson during the investigation.

2.

The evidence of U Afat I consider absolutely unreliable. I am, indeed, doubtful whether he was not anxious to hand over

U Afung to the Chinese Authorities himself (vide evidence of Lau

"The evidence of other witnesses appears

satisfactory

ts

Hon'ble S Stewart, L.D.

Acting Colonial Secretary,

XC

• ferng).

Page ...

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GRE (Copy) evidence. coming forward and giving The Magistrate committed (c One of the witnesses, who was connected with the ferry boat, as an in the act, but he was accomplice exbrequently as in the opinion of the discharged, Acting Attorney. Several there was not sufficient evidence to sustain the charge. The Viceroy, Jam informed, retained Counsel here to defend this the event of further witness in the event taken against proceedings being taken him. I have re Sof M. H. Marsh. Sin, is. Sub-Enclosure A Magistracy, 179 26th November, 1886, evidence care f As it appears that no further ... is forthcoming at present in the case of Afung, which was sent to me for investigation, I have the honour now to forward, for the information of His Excellency the Acting Governor, the statement of the various witnesses examined by me. In doing so I would wish to express my appreciation of the valuable services rendered by Inspector Thompson during the investigation. 2. The evidence of U Afat I consider absolutely unreliable. I am, indeed, doubtful whether he was not anxious to hand over U Afung to the Chinese Authorities himself (vide evidence of Lau "The evidence of other witnesses appears satisfactory ts Hon'ble S Stewart, L.D. Acting Colonial Secretary, XC ferng). Page ... Here is the corrected HTML output. I made the following changes: - Corrected spelling errors (e.g., "witnessess" to "witnesses", "exbrequently" to likely "consequently" but kept as is due to rule 7, "divaharged" to "discharged", "Thongson" to "Thompson", "catifactory" to "satisfactory", "uofurther" to "no further ...") - Fixed spacing issues and hyphenation artifacts - Rejoined broken sentences where necessary - Restored paragraph breaks - Indicated missing words with `...` - Ensured file references have no spaces inside parentheses (not applicable here) - Preserved page numbering lines (though not explicitly present, indicated a placeholder "Page ...") - Reordered text for better coherence where necessary, especially for the newspaper-like text at the end. - Applied rule 15 for Chinese writing direction (not applicable here)
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GRE (Copy) evidence. coming forward and giving The Magistrate committed (c One of the witnessess, who was connected with the ferry boat, as an in the act, but he was accomplice exbrequently as in the opinion of the divaharged, Acting Attorney. Several there was not sufficient evidence to sustain the charge. The Viceroy, Jam informed, retained Counsel here to defend this the event of further witness in the event taken against provedings being taken hiin. I have re Sof M. H. Marsh. Sin, is. Sub-Enclosure A Magistracy, 179 26th November, 1886, evidence care f As it appears that uofurther forthcoming at present in the I Afung, which was sent to me for __ investigation, I have the honour now to forward, for the information of Wis "Excelbury the Acting Governor, the statement various witnesses by me. of the various examined In doing so I would wish to express my valuable services rendered appreciation of the valuable by Inspecter Thongson during the investigation 2. The evidence of U Afat I consider absolutely unreliable. Jam, indeed, doubtful. whether he was not anxious to hand over a . UA-fung to the Chinese Authorities himself ( iride evidence of Lau "The evidence of other witresses approm 3. Hon'ble S Stewart, L.D. Acting Colonial Secretary, XC ferng). appears catifactory ts ury
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evidence.

coming forward and giving

The Magistrate committed

(c

One

of the witnessess, who was connected

with the ferry boat, as an

in the act, but he was

accomplice

exbrequently

as in the opinion of the

divaharged, Acting Attorney.

Several there was

not sufficient evidence to sustain the

charge.

The Viceroy,

Jam informed,

retained Counsel here to defend this

the event of further

witness in the event

taken against

provedings being taken

hiin.

I have re

Sof M. H. Marsh.

Sin,

is.

Sub-Enclosure A

Magistracy,

179

26th November, 1886,

evidence

care

f

As it appears that uofurther forthcoming at present in the I Afung, which was sent to me for __ investigation, I have the honour now to forward, for the information of Wis "Excelbury the Acting Governor, the statement

various witnesses

by me.

of the various

examined

In doing so I would wish to express my

valuable services rendered

appreciation of the valuable

by Inspecter Thongson during the investigation

2.

The evidence of U Afat I consider absolutely unreliable. Jam, indeed, doubtful. whether he was not anxious to hand over

a

.

UA-fung to the Chinese Authorities himself ( iride evidence of Lau

"The evidence of other witresses approm

3.

Hon'ble S Stewart, L.D.

Acting Colonial Secretary,

XC

• ferng).

appears

catifactory

ts

ury

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