CO129-238 - Governor Des Voeus - 1888 [7-8] — Page 492

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-murderous robbery; and it is seareely creditable to us that a considerable number of _ such should have, as there

is no moral doubt they have, escaped altogether from justice by using refuge.

as a

1.26.

this

Colony

As to the Chinese

Judicial system it must-

us

always appear to me as one"

Eve

devised rather to bring certain punishment to crime than

to reveal innocence.

But

however

But tortion

a view

setting Ende

however

in some

of

repulsive in it's features, it is probably better adapted to the peculiar conditions present in China

other that is practiceably

any

than and in view of the prevalence of Secret Societies formed for the protection of criminals, of the terrible punishments which they

mete out to informere,

and the utter absence of mome"

courage in witnesses; it is, I think, to say the least doubtful whether the severe requirements

of

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