Ah Soy
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Hope B. C. | Hope B. C. | ||
26 September 1884 | 26 September 1884 | ||
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Deputy Attorney General | Deputy Attorney General | ||
Victoria | Victoria | ||
Sir | Sir | ||
| − | I have the honour to enclose the Inquisition and Depositions of the witnesses taken at an Inquest held by Mr. Wardle, Deputy Coroner on the body of Ah Soy, a Chinaman found dead at Hope. The deceased was engaged in | + | |
| − | It seems impossible to obtain any further evidence in this case everyone | + | I have the honour to enclose the Inquisition and Depositions of the witnesses taken at an Inquest held by Mr. Wardle, Deputy Coroner on the body of Ah Soy, a Chinaman found dead at Hope. The deceased was engaged in hoeing potatoes in a field about half a mile from Hope last Saturday. There was another Chinaman named Ah Leong who worked with him until noon on that day. The latter then came up to Hope for dinner and says that he left the deceased alive in the field and when he returned to work at about two o'clock he found his partner dead. |
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| + | It seems impossible to obtain any further evidence in this case everyone here suspects Ah Leong of the crime but no one saw him do it. He is said to be a passionate man and it is well known that the deceased was disliked by his countrymen here. This together with the fact of Ah Leong being the last man in company with the deceased and his actions when | ||
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| + | BC Archives, GR-0431 Box 3 File 7 / BRITISH COLUMBIA. ATTORNEY GENERAL. / Inquisitions / inquests conducted by coroners in British Columbia. | ||
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Hope B. C. 26 September 1884
PAE Irving Esq Deputy Attorney General Victoria
Sir
I have the honour to enclose the Inquisition and Depositions of the witnesses taken at an Inquest held by Mr. Wardle, Deputy Coroner on the body of Ah Soy, a Chinaman found dead at Hope. The deceased was engaged in hoeing potatoes in a field about half a mile from Hope last Saturday. There was another Chinaman named Ah Leong who worked with him until noon on that day. The latter then came up to Hope for dinner and says that he left the deceased alive in the field and when he returned to work at about two o'clock he found his partner dead.
It seems impossible to obtain any further evidence in this case everyone here suspects Ah Leong of the crime but no one saw him do it. He is said to be a passionate man and it is well known that the deceased was disliked by his countrymen here. This together with the fact of Ah Leong being the last man in company with the deceased and his actions when
BC Archives, GR-0431 Box 3 File 7 / BRITISH COLUMBIA. ATTORNEY GENERAL. / Inquisitions / inquests conducted by coroners in British Columbia.