and be produced a memorandum purporting to give Barkam an account of the amounts which he had paid. The evidence of Sam Yuk, the Gambling House keeper, bears out Barkam to a certain extent. And there is, moreover, evidence to show that Ip Lak Shan was a ...
I agree with Lockhart and Sercombe Smith (the two dissentients who were against Ip Lak Shan's dismissal) that length of service and previous good conduct should not be regarded as extenuating such serious offences as those of Ip Lak Shan. On the other hand, there is circumstantial evidence which ...
The majority of the Committee hesitated to accept Ip Lak Shan's evidence in face of his denial. Moreover, in para. 8, the Attorney General states that Ip Lak Shan had lied to him deliberately the day preceding the trial.
I do not understand why Wan Shing, a Detective Sergeant & District Watchman of the Intermediate District, was not called as a witness. May, in his memorandum, says that he made a statement which must, I should have thought, have had a bearing on this case.
I gather from the Attorney General's statement that the majority of those on the spot considered Ip Lak Shan's statement unreliable, and if this is the case, I think the sentence now passed on him viz. reduction of pension must suffice.
On the other hand, I agree with May (see his letter attached) that the case against Mr. Osmund ...
On the whole, I prefer to trust the Governor and the majority of those on the spot, and I would suggest that we approve the grant of a pension of $1340, not because the evidence against Mr. Osmund does not seem to have been sufficiently convincing to the majority of the Executive Council, but because his offences, if past, had been long service ...
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