with a table laid with implements of gambling. The people had all gone up by the roof. "I did not report this as I did not consider it any part of my duty to report gambling. I have no instructions to that effect.
4. At the same time after this I was asked by my interpreter on two occasions to receive money from the gambling house but I refused. I went up to the said House again on several subsequent occasions under orders for the purpose of measuring the capacity of the house with a view to over-crowding and for other sanitary purposes, but I never saw any gambling going on in that house on any of the said occasions except the first one.
5. I had no knowledge that my mistress was receiving any money from the gamblers and I should not have allowed it if I had known it. I have never received any money whatever, directly or indirectly from keepers of gambling houses, nor have I authorized any one to receive such money on my behalf; this I declare to be the absolute truth.
6. I respectfully submit that the fact that a woman, who is my wife, and simply a housekeeper, has been receiving money from the gambling house, (without my knowledge as admitted by the two actors in the transaction), is no evidence against me, nor any...