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In the matter of the Humble Petition
of Utter singh of No. 12 Hollywood Road, Victoria Hongkong late Sergeant major in the Police Force of that Colony presented to the Right Honourable Mr J. Chamberlain M.P. Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Colonial affairs Downing London S.W. on the 15th day of September 1897.
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The matter of "The Statutory Declarations Act 1835"
I, William Stanton of Victoria in the Colony, Inspector in the Hongkong Police Force, do solemnly and sincerely declare and say as follows:
On the 24th and 25th days of August last I was directed to attend before the Honorable Francis Henry May, the Captain Superintendent of Police of this Colony, and Henry Lardner Dennys, Crown Solicitor of this Colony, and did attend on the said days at Victoria Gaol to answer certain charges of not discovering and reporting a gambling house at No. 2 Wa Lane, Victoria, in this Colony.
The hearing of the said charges proceeded with before the above-mentioned gentlemen, and four witnesses were called by them against me.
One of these witnesses was a Chinaman named Leung, who stated that he had been employed on and off for a number of years as a watchman to gambling houses in Wa Lane, Victoria aforesaid, and whilst under cross-examination by me, he stated that he...