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Q-What private business?
A.-With HANDLEY as a plumber and gas-fitter.
Q. And where did you make the $1,500?
A.-In private business.
-In two years?
A.-I did not say in two years. Once, for instance, I had $3,000 from the Manila Lottery.
Q.-Well, you lost on the Oriental Hotel I think, did you not?
A.--Yes.
Q.-And you were bankrupt?'
A.-No.
Q.-You compounded with your creditors?
A.-I believe everything is paid up; if not it is not my fault, it is my partner's, because he never had a cent in the business.
Q.-But you did not bring any money out with you?
A.-No.
Q.-Your $1,500 was gone?
A. Yes, that was gone.
Q-It appears in evidence FRASER-SMITH at your house?
you had been drinking champagne with Mr. STEWART
A. Yes.
Q.--How can you afford on $80 a month to drink champagne?
A.—I don't think you would take it as a guarantee that I was drinking champagne every day. I have a lot of sea-faring friends who owe me a lot of money from the hotel.
Q-Then you say it was a present?
A. Yes.
Q.-Champagne is very frequently given by the Contractors?
A.-I never had any from them.
Q.-Do you know STAINFIELD was an Overseer?
A.---Yes.
Q. How long was he there?
A.He took over the works after I left.