CO129-57 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [7] — Page 130

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[ the words underlined being upon my subsequent protest, I that

the

or

attempt

any

t to commit extortion,

other misdemeavor, directly

verisa

" or viedirectly, is itself, a

a misdemearn " and that if they thought the- defered ant quilly, they wost pus. ' hiin quilty : His Lordship here and then, changing his paused tove, resumed as

as follows; - You

" will fried him not quilly, if '" you think that all that he did suggestion to the

I was to make a

" prisoners that they ought to pay

the

Atvai

of the Cookshop . In a

· few minutes the jury returned Verdict of "Not Guilty '" Before

I left the court two of them informand me that they had found the

" Verdict entirely upon

entirely upon that last Statement of the judge

as to the

that be

" suggestion", - conceiving ' meant to say that in that case, "'it would be quite immaterial " whether the defendant

dant was or was

to add that-

' not himself liable to pay the bill "to which his suggestion" head- reference - I beg this information was en voluntary

their part, and

ov

enti

entirely

that I had not sought any

conversation on the

subject of

the trial with either of them.

The revission to recapitulate