Indictable Offences (M) See s. 29. Depositions of Witnesses. CANADA, City of Victoria, Province of British Columbia

THE EXAMINATION of J B Matthews of said City of Victoria, taken on this Sixeenth day of December, in the year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventy -nine, 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 Ah Keong who is this day charged before me. This Deponent J. B. Matthews, upon oath deposeth saith as follows: I am a member of the Royal College of Surgeons. On the 10th of this month I examined the body of a chinaman whose name I