The information and complaint of Harry Wilmer of Victoria in the Colony aforesaid, taken this Twenty sixth day of march in the year of our Lord one thousand eight and sixty six before me Augustus Pemberton Esq. one of Her majesty's Justices of the Peace for the aforesaid Colony of Vancouver Island and its Dependencies , who being sworn upon his Oath, saith on the fourteenth day of March instant I charged the prisoner Ah Soo through an interpreter with having in his possession two pieces of silk which had been stolen from the residence of Mr. J D Pemberton. I gave him the usual caution , he told me the silk had been in his possession for three months that he was in the habit of going from place too place collecting rags and that he had picked up the silk in question outside a blacksmith shop. (Signed) Harry Wilmer Sworn before me the day and date first before written. (Signed) A Pemberton