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Jewellery, Jade stone

bangle, etc.

have

The Executive Government

sent down a full statement

of the charge against him and the evidence in support

thereof.

servants

and that

Two Chinese Police say they know him

they

depose he was at work in his village in 1884

and 1885.

The accused was under

sentence for two years for extorting.

This I submit should

be sufficient to authorise this Government

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or who is known from information

received by the Police to use

Hongkong

as the base

for his

depredations on the mainland,

which many do,

and when

there is not even

an allegation that the fugitive is required

for any political offence, this

case comes under

the rule that

there

should, I submit,

be a

statement

by the Viceroy of the crime

committed

which there

acceded,

to hand

a copy

read at

and

As it is, he

the investigations

and

evidence

of the case

is against the

accused.

The defence in all

cases which have arisen since I have been Acting Attorney

General, has been

that

the

accused, so far

from

having

erred, was

not

guilty

is defended like all the

others will

for many days.

When the Chinese

authorities who

have pled here for the surrender

has pled here,

put one

altogether; that he

is quite innocent

brutally

that

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