Imbitu Alebrations so mate
little could be done in
ring into the matter. When
they
were over
Sentired upon
the back of investigating the
buth of this statements made
to Mr Francis and commu-
nicated by him to me in
his letter of the 6th June.
The first object was to obtain
a conviction
against
the
man
Sam Vir on whose possession I had found the tin box & the
documents it contained, and
the first step in that direction
was to find
whose names.
some of the persons
appeared on the
paper wrappers of the articles
Jewellery which had evidently
been pledged.
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I should have saved
myself much time if I had
acted on Mr Francis, who his
original informant was,
as information
but
regarding the
existence of gambling houses
and other abuses.
me,
always reaches
when not reported by
the Police, through anony-
mous letters, it
never
occurred to me that Mr Francis had derived his informa-
tion
from such a
source as he did.
I therefore mistrusted
Inspector Stanton with the
detective
assistance of
the
staff to discover for me some
of the owners
of
this
Jewellery
in order that I
might
ascertain
aa-
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