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Honourable T. H. WHITEHEAD.-I wish to test what the woman's testimony is worth. You get satisfied on one or two little points that you want to know. I want to know a little more.
(To witness) Was it not possible for your husband or master to have bad business transactions without communicating them to you?
Witness.--He would be sure to tell me.
Q. Did he tell all his concubines what his business transactions were?
A.-No, some of the concubines were elsewhere.
Q. How many has he altogether?
A.-Five or six.
Q. What is his income?
A.-Not much.
Q.-Who was your
husband?
A. SIN MUN.
Q.--What did he do?
A.-He was a boarding-house keeper.
Q.-Had he been in the Police?
A.-No.
Q. How do you remember that he left on the 27th of the 1st moon last
year?
A. When my
husband goes away from the Colony I ought to remember that.
Q. How many other concubines had he in the Colony?
A. None.
Q.-His first wife was here?
A.-She went home yesterday.
Q.--What do you
do
now ?
A.-Nothing but needlework.
Honourable HO KAI.-The whole matter is that Kw'ONG CHEUNG was still in the Police Force when SIN MUN had gone to Singapore so that Kw'ONG CHEUNG could not have been a detective in the Pó Leung Kuk while SIN MUN was in the Colony because he was at that time in the Police Force. That is the point.
Honourable T. H. WHITEHEAD.-What was the date?
The CHAIRMAN.-March 7th 1892.
The Committee then adjourned.