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trial, to the cruellest of deaths, at the hands of the Imperialists on the opposite shore to Hong Kong;—and this at a time when, under the supposition that we were at war with the latter, as we then professed to be, the murdered men had been soliciting our alliance with the Tai Ping Wang, and offering their help in the common quarrel, as they imagined it.[1]
I allude to the charges brought against him by Mr. May, J.P., Superintendent of Police, imputing complicity with Mah Chow Wong in the celebrated "Gold Dust Case;" where the latter culprit, with his aid, deceived Mr. May into the surrender, into the hands of a false claimant, belonging to the Mah Chow Wong, of the portions of the stolen property which Mr. May's vigilance had recovered, and of which he had taken custody, on behalf of the absent owner.[2]
I allude to the evidence of the Assistant Police Magistrate, Mr. Mitchell, on the pending accusations of Mr. May, J.P., against Mr. Caldwell and Mah Chow Wong, in connection with the felonious removal of tin slabs, belonging to Sic-Qua, of Canton, committed at Hong Kong some years ago, and commonly called the "Tin Case."[3] I At the request of his friends, the firm of Messrs. Gilman and Co., Mr. Mitchell acted, he says, in that matter for Sic-Qua, and employed Mr. Caldwell, then Assistant Superintendent of Police, to aid in the recovery of the goods. That firm was then represented by Mr. Hudson, now re sident in England, as is his senior partner, Mr. Gilman,
