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979. PERSONAL.—  I am a West-Indian by birth. I lived in the North-West with a native woman.We had with us a girl, a half- caste, who lived in my house. The police never interfered with me until I came back from serving as cook on a schooner. My native woman had meanwhile gone away, but the girl remained in the house. At the trial the girl, whose age was about twelve and a half, was frightened and shaken by the interpreter into saying what he wanted her to say. I has never assaulted her. I would like the Commission to see the depositions, if they are obtainable.
 
979. PERSONAL.—  I am a West-Indian by birth. I lived in the North-West with a native woman.We had with us a girl, a half- caste, who lived in my house. The police never interfered with me until I came back from serving as cook on a schooner. My native woman had meanwhile gone away, but the girl remained in the house. At the trial the girl, whose age was about twelve and a half, was frightened and shaken by the interpreter into saying what he wanted her to say. I has never assaulted her. I would like the Commission to see the depositions, if they are obtainable.
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nos. 3677, 3665, 1579, AND 3666, examined.
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980.  OFFENCE AND SENTENCE.— Assault ; two years hard labour each.
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981.  PERSONAL.— We complain that the row with the prosecutor in this case was brought about by our trying to recover a portmanteau, which a man (called Benedicto) and a native woman had taken from the camp of one of us and were removing in the cart of the prosecutor. Our gardens and property are going to ruin. We were not allowed to explained at the trial that the cause of the disturbance was the stolen portmanteau, which we were trying to recover, as the Magistrate said we were being tried for the assault which was committed, and the portmanteau had nothing to do with it.
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No. 6, examined.
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982.  RE CASE OF SAN DAWES.  — I think Dawes is not guilty. i gave evidence against him which led to his conviction. I did so because the police told me that Dawes and  Wise had garrotted a man, whose name I forget, in Charles Street, West  Perth. i did not know the men, and, in fact, did not see them, but only gave evidence that they were the men, as the policeman said if I said they were the men the Government would pay me.
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(The Commission adjourned.)

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1ST, 1899.


[AT FREMANTLE GAOL.]

Present: DR. ADAM JAMESON, Chairman. Mr. E. W. Mayhew, Mr. J. Gallop, Mr. F. Craige, Mr. H. Stirling, Dr. Lotz, and the Secretary. No. 10555, examined.

976. OFFENCE AND SENTENCE.— Murder : ten years. 977. PERSONAL.— I want to ask the Communication to look into my case. I was sentenced to death for murder, but the sentence was commuted to ten years penal servitude. The point I want looked into is the great discrepancy between the evidence first given after the man I was supposed to have murdered was missed and what was subsequently given by the same witnesses at the trial. I had a row with the missing man on a Friday and threw him overboard, but he came on board again in the presence of the next day he was missing. At the first inquiry held it was shown that I was in my bunk at the time of the man's disappearance, but in court the same witnesses declared that they saw me following the deceased up in the a threatening manner. I have not the least idea what became of the deceased, and had nothing to do with his disappearance.

No. 3657, examined.

978. OFFENCE AND SENTENCE.—Indecently assaulting a female: two years.

979. PERSONAL.— I am a West-Indian by birth. I lived in the North-West with a native woman.We had with us a girl, a half- caste, who lived in my house. The police never interfered with me until I came back from serving as cook on a schooner. My native woman had meanwhile gone away, but the girl remained in the house. At the trial the girl, whose age was about twelve and a half, was frightened and shaken by the interpreter into saying what he wanted her to say. I has never assaulted her. I would like the Commission to see the depositions, if they are obtainable.


nos. 3677, 3665, 1579, AND 3666, examined.

980. OFFENCE AND SENTENCE.— Assault ; two years hard labour each.

981. PERSONAL.— We complain that the row with the prosecutor in this case was brought about by our trying to recover a portmanteau, which a man (called Benedicto) and a native woman had taken from the camp of one of us and were removing in the cart of the prosecutor. Our gardens and property are going to ruin. We were not allowed to explained at the trial that the cause of the disturbance was the stolen portmanteau, which we were trying to recover, as the Magistrate said we were being tried for the assault which was committed, and the portmanteau had nothing to do with it.


No. 6, examined.

982. RE CASE OF SAN DAWES. — I think Dawes is not guilty. i gave evidence against him which led to his conviction. I did so because the police told me that Dawes and Wise had garrotted a man, whose name I forget, in Charles Street, West Perth. i did not know the men, and, in fact, did not see them, but only gave evidence that they were the men, as the policeman said if I said they were the men the Government would pay me. 

(The Commission adjourned.)