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Mr. Shelton Hooper.-Quite a run on the Bank. He has got a bad name. that from creditors.
I know
The Chairman.-This letter goes in as an exhibit.
Witness cautioned, and requested to do his best to get Lai Him to come back.
The Chairman.-The Commission will do all it can in reason to protect him against his creditors.
19.--CHAN WAI HING, declared and cautioned:-
The Chairman.--Can you read ?'
A. Yes.
Q.-You know what the letter is about?
A.-Well, Wu told me about it -something about the Inspector.
Q. What about the Inspector?
A. He said the Inspector had come and wanted to "what to do with him", and he got frightened.
Q-Do you know what the Inspector said-how the Inspector frightened him?
A.-I do not know. It is only what Wu told me.
118, 180 and 262.—LO MAN KAI, declared and cautioned
Statement handed in by witness
"I joined the Sanitary Department as the first clerk in March, 1899, when Mr. Duggan "was the Secretary. Before I joined, I was a clerk in the l'olice Department. I know "Lui Chi. About 6 months after I joined, when he got the contract for sundry stores. He "had the contract for about one year and a half. When the next contract was put up for "tender, Sham Iu came and persuaded me to take some interest in it, saying there was money to "be made. As he had dealings with Lui Chi, he knew it. When I saw Lui Chi, I asked if he "would let me have a share of his business, but he wont consent. Thereupon I went to "consult Au Sui Shang, and asked him if he cared to send in a tender for the contract; if เ he did, I would go in shares with him. Au Sui Shang agreed, and we obtained the (4 contract. Since then I have been working with him in the business of Man Hing, as partners. In 1903, Sham In approached ine and Au Sui Shang, and warned us that Lui Chi "would send in his tender again, and that if $200 or $300 were paid to Lui Chi, he would "induce him to retire from the field altogether.
Accordingly Au Sui Shang paić: Sham Iu $200 (about) to be handed to Lui Chi. In- “1904 the same amount was paid to Lu. Chi, in the same manner, upon Sham In's advice.