CO129-289 - Individuals - 1898 — Page 353

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you did subsequently. It appears that about the 10th july the Convict. Sham In. in Consequence of the favours you had already shown

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made berkain statement avours to bome. myself and most of the officers and men of the Forge. These statements where, merely hearsay and in no evidence. yet

get on these. H. E. the Governor to suspend myself on these you recommended and three other Europeans from duty. the 13th July. asyrrently for no other free prove then to exette the feeling of Colony against us for the fact of our being suspended was taken as proof of our guilt. in the mean time on the afternoon of the 12th you banged bartigin Chinese detectives and others to be arrested for banishment and in

to. H. G. the Governor's.

banishment orders Commanding these men to leave the balony you detained them as frrisoners in Victoria Gaal, There is no such a thing

as a banishment

Morrant knowven to the laws of have

bolony. The proper

is an order was no locafuel authority to detain these men one minute after

the Colony and was no.

they were Wit was necessary to detain.

and

then the order states distinctly they are to be detained in the bustody of the Police. Having goth these men