and my solicitor assisted by
Interpreter
L
whose
an
scarcity
trust could be placed,
Commenced
an
examina-
tion of the prisoner Lam Min. I
first carefully explained
to him that it
was
only
by speaking the strict truth
that he could hope to gain any consideration.
Lam Min is a man of
middle
age
and rather feeble
physique
and is an
intelli-
gent man of quiet disposi-
tion. He comes
of the respectable shop-keeping class; his
uncle Sam Cha & the latter's
partner Lam Chi, who together furnished the capital for this
other Harbouring shroff,
are
men
of considerable property.
Both Sam On & Lam
Chi left the Colony as soon
as Lam Min
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was convicted
I attach
a
copy
of Lam Yen's statement
as it
was taken down
by
the Town Solicitor, together
with a translation of the Chinese documents referred
(Enclosures L.M.N) to in it
Q. P. Q
It became at once
apparent to me that our investigations would be
necessarily
abortive unless we could
find
means
to examine the
persons who had acted as intermediaries between Lam
Yen and the persons who had been bribed.
Accordingly