ENCLOSURE
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Confidential.
Sir,
20054
RECP
(REL 15 SEP 7;
10, Belilios Terrace.
Hong-Kong, 22nd July, 1897.
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt
of your confidential letter No.8 of the 19th instant and its
enclosures.
The following is a statement of the grounds
upon which I rely to exculpate myself from the charges made
against me.
1. I did not between the 1st January 1897 and
the 28th June, 1897 or at any other time receive from the
keepers of illegal public gaming houses situate in Wa Lane
and Cheung Hing Lane in Victoria, Hong Kong, through a head
district watchman named Wan Shing and through a Clerk in the
Registrar General's Office named Ip Pak Shau or otherwise the
sum of $412.50 or any other sum.
The statement of Ip Pak Shau, so far as it
relates to this first charge is false.
2. I did not during the months of June & July
1897, or at any other time, obtain for my own use sums of
money amounting to about $100, or any other sum from certain
Chinese who applied to the Registrar General for certificates
to enable them to land at San Francisco.
The Honourable
J.H. Stewart Lockhart,
Colonial Secretary.