INFORMATION

COLONY OF VANCOUVER ISLAND And its Dependencies To Wit :}

The Information and Complaint of Rosalie Gowian of Victoria in the Colony aforesaid, taken this twenty fifth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty six before me Augustus F. Pemberton Esq re one of her Majesty's Justices of the Peace for said Colony of Vancouver Island and its Dependencies, who being sworn upon this Oath, saith through Frederick [illegible] who is duly sworn to interpret truly, the little girl in Court is my daughter her name is Mary Gowian she is five years old, last Saturday I was in my house situate in Humboldt street Victoria in the Colony aforesaid when I missed my daughter Mary and I sent my son Charley to to look after her, her returned and could not find her, I sent him out again and he went lady Chinaman's where he saw Mary, he came and told me she was there and he then returned and brought her home, when she got home, she complained of having been hurt by the Chinaman, last Monday I was [phrase?] and had the child with me, she went to make water, and began to cry and complain that she was sick. I afterward examined the child and found her diseased. I see the Chinaman in Court I hear him call himself Ah Gah I charge the said Ah Gah with

BC Archives GR-0419 Box 5 File 1866/16 / BRITISH COLUMBIA. ATTORNEY GENERAL. / Attorney General documents.