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1884/16 Ah Keong, attempted murder, big scrap in Victoria’s Chinatown

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Indictable Offences

(M) See s. 29.

Depositions of Witnesses.

Canada City of Victoria Province of British Columbia

The examination of

Ah Sing of Victoria in the Province aforesaid taken on this 10 day of October in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty four at Victoria in the Province aforesaid before the undersigned one of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said Province in the presence and hearing of Guy Wah Shue, Ah Keung, Ah Kow, Yip Mong Guen & Pown Shuk who is this day charged before me, This deponent Ah Sing upon his oath and saith as follows: I was going along Fisgard street on Tuesday evening instant and saw lots of fighting I recognized some of the men and some one was hollering Murder. I saw Ah Keun with a knife , I think I