si Such is the common report on the. spot and generally accepted there as true, Anyhow his request for possession of the prisoner was 80, promptly refused, that he is.said to have bowed to each of the gentry inturnand begged them not to implicate him in the matter, AS TO THE UNFORTUNATE CAPTIVE, he was hurried without loss of time to the city, and there almost immediately brought up for trial before the city magistrate. His attitude was bold and defiant. He neither denied the accusations laid against him nor tried to exculpate himself. -When threatened he said his death would be avenged on the man who caused it. When asked what he meant by propagating this Society and who were its members he told the magistrate that he (the magistrate) knew all about it, he being almost a member of the Kolao Hui. Upon this the magistrate seems to heve lost his temper, and ordered the prisoner to be
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