[LXXXIX]
CENTRAL POLICE STATION,
28th September, 1892.
Captain Superintendent,
I have made inquiries respecting the charge made in the attached Petition against a man named CH'AN PO-SHAN alias TAK HING-TSAI.
The petitioner CH'AN SAM has been a sly prostitute in this Colony for 6 or 7 years, except at short intervals when she has been the kept mistress of Chinamen. She is at present living with a man of very doubtful character named Tò CHAN-MING, and, I am informed, she still earns money by sly prostitution. Some time ago CH'AN PO-SHAN gave a gold watch to Tò CHAN-MING to sell for him for $18.50. TO CHAN-MING has not paid the money nor returned the watch, and CH'AN PO-SHAN has been to the house, 25, Aberdeen Street, several times trying to get one or the other. On the last occasion, shortly before the Petition was written, he had a row with Tò CHAN-MING. I think it likely that the complaint is made in consequence.
If there is any truth in CH'AN SAM's statement, she might have charged CH'AN PO- SHAN, who is a notorious character amongst the class she has associated with, and his whereabouts must have been known to some of her associates if not to herself, any time during the last few years.
She is unable to refer me to a single person to corroborate her story of her having lived a day or two with CH'AN PO-SHAN or of the drugging and kidnapping.
Minute by the Registrar General.
What is known of CH'an Pò-shan ?
J. H. S. L.
8.10.92.
Minute by Inspector Stanton.
W. STANTON,
Inspector.
Captain Superintendent,
CH'AN PO-SHAN has been known to the Detectives for several years as a gambler, and he sometimes associates with TIN SZ-KUK Swindlers. He used to keep a gambling house in Heung Lane. I have been informed that he and a man surnamed LAU conducted Potsze gambling in a house in I On Lane, and won over a hundred dollars only a few nights ago. CH'AN PO-SHAN, is the man who summoned MоK CHI, the Pó Léung Kuk Detective, for assault last year and got him fined $5.
W. STANTON, Inspector.
12.10.92.