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1879/13 Regina vs. Ah Keong – murder (2 people)

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

THE EXAMINATION of C P Bloomfield of said City of Victoria, taken on this Sixteenth 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 C P Bloomfield upon his oath deposeth saith as follows: I recollect Wednesday morning last when the alarm of fire was given. I went to the house that was on fire at Fisgard Street an arriving there I found the body of Chinaman whose name I believe to be Ting Pap, laying on the sidewalk quite close to the house