Estonial Secretary, Dr. Bridges, and his (Mr. Caldwell's) assistant in the Office of Registrar General,
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a. 10. Grandpre (a Macau Portuguese) who also was,
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at the hug and probably now is a Tenant of licensed
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other brothel property, under lease from Mr. Caldwell's Partner and Co Insolvent
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My Brother-in-law, the defaulting Colonial Treasurer,
mentioned above.
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was called to speak to her own character and to lay clear, in her own
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-right, to
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and
the property standing, in Mr. Caldwell's at the Land Office or elsewhere) – The indelicacy of her being present for such a purpose/occasion caused Great pain to nearly every one who heard her evidence.
67. Mr. Kai, Lum Ateen, Mr. Stuce, Dr. Bridges, and Mr. Grandpre only confirmed the main facts of the real or reputed Ownership of W. Caldwell over the Brothel property (claimed nevertheless to have been purchased from him by Lum Ateen himself) and of W. Caldwell's acts of interference on behalf of Mah Chow Hong, already stated. They gave no material evidence in his favor, and they failed to impeach the motives of those who had testified or were going to testify against him.
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But the last two Witnesses made further assertions, apparently without feeling their force, as to their own part in these matters.
Para. 4, 5, 6 Sup
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Prinkel attentes & Fever Fifteenth days Grand 28th Su pop 20 (2nd) and 30 (1
But
Dr. Bridges stated that he had himself afforded his voluntary professional services for Mr. Caldwell in adjusting his Insolvency and inducing the creditors to accede to the arrangement as above mentioned; and that in giving Mr. Caldwell his support and countenance against all accusations, he had acted out of a sense of duty as a
Freemason, which last observation was unanimously expunged from the minutes as highly improper, for so the Chairman being also a Freemason
Twenty of the Commission has succeeded and twenty-fourth days, 14!!!
7. The 4th and 9th (both)
July 1858, pp. 93 (2, 6th
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(re-examination
The narrative, which Mr. Grandpre gave
70. The
90
of his
conduct is still more instructive, and the rather,
since, in their haste to get done, the English Mail being about to be despatched, the Commissioners overlooked it altogether, during the few hours engaged in preparing and signing their Report. It must be supposed, that, if they had not so overlooked it, they would have censured it.
Printed Minutes Pr. 71. He began by declaring that he had nothing to do
6th day 8th June 1858
with the Registration of Brothels, that he was not Assistant Registrar General, that the branch of Mr. Caldwell's duties was entirely distinct from his own, that he had nothing whatever to do with Mr. Caldwell beyond having the Pay List of his Department in the same building, and being
72. The Commission, giving credit to these repeated and unequivocal denials, decided not to affect Mr. Caldwell with Notice of M. Grandpre's proceedings.
So that they were, for the time, in the right; - only for the time. And even at that time, some Notice ought to have been taken of them, as affecting M. Grandpre himself, a public Officer - This is his own account of them:
73. I am Collector of Police Rates, and have been so since January 1858. I am the occupant of (Lot 218). This lot still stands in the name of my Brother-in-law, as Owner, in the Land Office Books.
From the time M. Reinaecker left the Colony to the present, I have rented it from him at One hundred Dollars a month.
"two persons, one house 10-Victoriano Flores, and the other to a Chinese Woman named
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now sublet to
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