COPY
ENCLOSURE,
Minute by the Attorney General.
Hon. Col. Secretary.
428
1035
RECEIVED JAN 19
I have read the petition and the minutes of the Captain Supt. of Police and Crown Solicitor and have no suggestions to make. It appears to me simply incredible that Baker, the Inspector in charge of the small section of a district, in which section these gambling houses had gone on for years, knew nothing about it. He must have known and he failed to report and there must have been a very substantial bribe paid to him or else he would have reported. That is the conclusion at which I, personally, have arrived, after weaving together, mentally, the very numerous small threads of evidence which I have found in the extremely numerous cases I have had to consider in connection with this bribery and gambling house scandal (as it has been called).
Apart from this matter I had formed a high opinion of Baker's ability, and it would have been much more pleasant for me to have been able to say I thought him innocent.
I am afraid some of the inculpated subordinate officers considered that the extreme difficulty of ever...