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Q-Nothing at all?
A. No; I never made more than three or four bills.
Q.-Do you see the bills? Do they go through your hands?
A.—No, never.
Q.-You have nothing to do with them?
A-Nothing.
Q.-Do you know at all how Mr. FRASER-SMITH, of the Telegraph Office, got copies of certain letters, with the numbers and dates from the Public Works Department?
A.-I know he has got some information.
Q.-Do you know how he got that information?
A.—I heard something about it, that some one furnished him with information by copying letters.
Q. Do you know who gave him that information?
A.-No, I don't know.
Q. Do you suspect any one of having given him that information?
A. No. I cannot say I suspect any one. I knew nothing about that letter until
the case came on.
Q.-Hon. F. B. JOHNSON.-Do you know Mr. FRASER-SMITH?
A.—No, not at all.
Q.-Not by sight?
A.-Only once, when I visited a friend at Wan-tsai, my friend pointed him out.
Q.-You have never spoken to him?
A.-Never.
Q.-Did you make out the bills you say you wrote in the Office or at home?
A.-At home. The man came to me and said, "I am in a great hurry; you must do one or two things for me."
Q.--And you have on no one single occasion received any money from a Con- tractor for making out his bill?
A.-No.
Q.-Quite sure?
A.-Sure.
Q.-You need not be afraid of stating the fact, because you were doing work outside your office hours. Perhaps you thought you were justified in taking a small present.
A.-No; not at all. I said I made out four or five, but in reality I can't remember.