Complainant replying -to further! questions by Mr. Wright, said that he did not make any complaint regarding the treatment to which he had been subjected, because, "I did not know anything then."
Mr, Wright:—When you came ty folie gac!, were you not shown the prison reigulations?—T' did not pay apy -atiention, because whea we persons there.
'Questioned further, witness ad-' mitted that the prison regulations had been read to him, "to remain' in gaol, I must observe the rales," 'd other articles he could not remember. Mr. Wright asked him if foreigners did not make daily visi to the cells, at which time he could lodge a complaint if he wished, witness replying that they passed. to and fro on the verandah.
'Mr. Wright:—When the foreigner' slapped your face, did he know your name?—I don't know, I was not asked my name.
After a lengthy interrogation, concerning the questions which the foreigner might have asked the other three inmates of the cell, witness finally admitted that he stood in front of them and that only he was addressed. He was then excused.
Koo Tze-zung, cook at the Yates Road "wheel," said in reply to Maitland, that he knew complainant. At the time in question, witness aid that Inspr." MacDermott, whom he identified, came to the cell, had the door opened, and asked Yang if he knew a foreigner atthe establishment with a long beard, Yang denied that he did, according to witness, whereupon accused slapped him inthe face and struck him with his fist in the chest and ribs.
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