Indictable Offences

(N) See s. 31.

Statement of the Accused.

Canada City of Victoria Province of British Columbia

Ah Mow stands charged before the undersigned, one of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace, in and for the Province aforesaid this twenty third day of March in the year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighty, for that the said Ah Mow on the 23rd day of February 1880, did unlawfully and feloniously escape from the Chain Gang whilst at the School Reserve in the said city.

And the said charge being read to the said Ah Mow and the witnesses for the prosecution, being severally examined in his presence, the said Ah Mow is now addressed by me as follows:

Having heard the evidence, do you wish to say anything in answer to the charge? You are not obliged to say anything unless you desire to do so; but whatever you say will be taken down in writing and may be given in evidence against you at your trial.

Whereupon the said Ah Mow saith as follows:

I was sick in my neck and the Cook told me to go out and told me to go to the Chinese Doctor and get some medicine and the he/the cook said if the medicine cured me, I was to come back, and that if I did not come back the Cook would fetch me back.

Through interpreter Ah Sin

Witness Wm. Leigh

Taken before me, at Victoria, the day and year first above mentioned.

A.F. Pemberton S.M.

BC Archives GR-0419 Box 19 File 1880/13 / BRITISH COLUMBIA. ATTORNEY GENERAL. / Attorney General documents.