The second star witness, continued Dr Sellett, was Zaragelli. His evidence as to what happened Between himself and Dadanashvilli was heresy evidence and, as such, hardly admissible. Coming to Lianoft's part, counsel said there was no difficulty in reaching the conclusion that what Yih said true. Leonoff trusted Dadanashvi i, not Gwanho and Ca.
The whole of the evidence produced by the police and by defendant himself proved conclusively, eaid Dr. Sellett, that someone connected with Gwanho & Ca, actually purchased the opium which was alleged to have been stolen, 'The prosecution had taken practically all their time in attempting to prove that Gwanho & Ca. dealt in opium. It was obvious that they did 30, Much had been said about the accounts of Harry, Soto and others. Perhaps in regard to Harry' the sums supposed to have been paid. to him were legitimate. He t_that as the captain of an opium ship he was entitled to oro then the wage of an ordinary Mp. Musso, in' his address for plaintiffs, said that in their. en your to succeed they must prove! five things—that there was steamer named the Komogato Maru, that there were 180 cases of opium abroad her, that thg opium was Nanded in 81 that the drug] belonged to Dadanashvilli, and that the defendant was concerned with If the defendant had id he knew nothing about the matter, the case for the pro-Secution would have been more difficult. As it was, he had admitted there was a steamer called the Komogato Maru, that it had 180 cases of opium aboard, and that, the drug was landed. There only remained, therefore, two points 20 be proved—that the opium was the property of Dadanashvilli and that the defendant had something to with its disappearance,
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