Room ab 4:3 Eact Street & the Key of the time tox
which
the money & Jewellery was
Kept This Evidence was cut
Short by the defence pleading
guilty.
he was prepared
to corroborate the Leung.
On the 7th July the man
Lam Movi
was convicted and
sentenced to five months imprisonment with hard labour
and fined $1000.
The prosecution on the defence offering
in the middle
of the trial to plead guilty, waived the Second charge of
advancing money for the purchase of gambling.
It was considered wiser
not to risk
any
chance of
appeal
against a conviction on that charge.
On the Summing-up,
after consultation
with yourself, I addressed a letter to you suggesting that the Crown Solicitor verbally
might be authorised to inform Sam
in Gaol that if he
would make a full disclosure
of the facts necessary & give evidence
in Court, this
Services thus rendered to the
public would be taken into
This Excellency's favourable
consideration should Sam
desire any mitigation of his sentence.
This course was
approved
and on the 10th July Mr Danny