Mr, Bryan asked not been a policeman handy. there ud been, but he was only one man and witness was oily one man: what could they do against three? Mr. Bryan proved even more curious. He asked whether as gute of his dat He said that it curred on the 7th of lust month, 'Mr. Bryan made it clear that the witness was referring to the 7th of "the foreign calendar th moon, Witness agreed heartily. Mr. Bryan was quite right, Then, how, asked Mr, Bryan, did' the witness account for the fuct that the three accused, having been arrested September 3, were in prison receive ing the equivalent of their tiffin killy" from the hands of a al warder at the time they were supposed. to have been in a government office foreing him to cept anti-government propaganda? Here the witness began to perspire freely. And, furthermore, at this point the judge intervened by ordering the witness, Who had bound himself in several different ways to tell the trath, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, out- of he box and away. this connection sundry complica-One Last, Attempt tions arose, various, deputies protesting against the decision of the So ended this attempt to ave tha Judges to hand them over, in com-three accused handed "over to the pliance with an application, to the Chinese. Mr. Bryan dwelt on the incident in his suma ring-up before Seainct them of erimisal proceed: vite faci case being tpale, the jadge. As he did so there was the sound of a smack upon the table, ings outside the Settlement limits. followed quickly by the thump 6f that the decision of the original The protests made were 29 strong roll of papers, 'The court man) ewen toe late witness Coming' judge that they should be handed 8 man from an attack of cons over was reversed sta subsequent coneen, He trow hin ha open the, without permission.
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