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Hore's total salary of $720 per annum, which money came from the gambling house keepers. Hore saw a gambling table in the house the first time he went there on a visit connected with his duties as Sanitary Inspector. Hore's interpreter, who had paid the money, was naturally desirous of helping his master and was taken by Hore to a Solicitor where he made a statutory declaration that Hore knew nothing of the payments to his woman.
It was obvious the money was only paid to her to induce her to prevent Hore from interfering with, or reporting, the gambling house, and it was equally obvious that the Chinese regarded Hore as being bribed and so safe not to interfere. The Executive Council did not believe the statement that Hore knew nothing of the bribery, and he was accordingly suspended, subject to the approval of the Secretary of State.
9. With regard to Osmund, he had been 38 years in the service and had risen to the post of First Clerk in the Registrar General's Office. He was a widower with 10 children. The charges against him were 3
(a) Receiving bribes from gaming houses amounting to $412.50.
(b) Receiving money, to which he was not entitled, with regard to certificates granted to Chinese enabling them to land at San Francisco.
(c) Offering Ip Pak Shau (who was the witness who alleged he paid Osmund the bribes, and was a Chinese Writer in Osmund's Office) $50 and advising