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A H« say in a short time, in half an hour-MR TAYLOR; I want to call attention to this fact. This examination is very irregular. When the witness appears to be going all right he is taken in English, and then when he wants to take refuge in anything he goes back to the Chinese. Now this witness is either competent to be examined in English, or he is not, and if he is competent to be examined in English he should not have an interpreter We have sufficient evidence that he is entitled to be examined without the aid of the interpreter, who is very liable to give his version of what the witness says without understanding the legal technicalities that may arise in the difference of one word or so. Now your Honor knows Wing is a fine interpreter, but he gives his version of the evidence, and he turns it his way, not understanding the legal side of it, or the niceties---- MR MORESBY: You have your interpreter, MR. TAYLOR: Perhaps our interpreter may be the same he does not understand the niceties in English. COURT: (To witness) You try and answer in English; you talk English. MR MORESBY: I wish to put this on the record We are prepared to go as far as we can -with this man in English but when we have the witness say he does not understand the question, we are entitled to have him answer taken through the interpreter. MR TAYLOR: Sometimes a white witness does not understand a question, and we have to put the question differently or more fully; there are a great many cases where that crops up in our Courts, and that is the commonest thing in the BC Archives GR-0419 BRITISH COLUMBIA, ATTORNEY GENERAL Box 100 File 1904/10 Attorney General documents.