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SUB ENCLOSURE 3.
RECP
Victoria Gaol.
Red 14 WA 98
21st. January, 1898.
Job Witchell states:-
with reference to my communication addressed
to the Superintendent of Victoria Gaol yesterday I desire
make the following statement:-
After I was made Inspector in 1896 I first
took money from the Kwai Wa Lane gambling house. It was at
No.9 Kwai Wa Lane. It was brought to me by a man belonging
to the Fish Lans at West Point called Cheung Hung. He came
and asked me what I broke the house for (I had broken it 3
times). He said that other Inspectors had money from the
house. I did not take the money when first offered. After
about 3 weeks he came and brought me 25 dollars. I received
it. It was in December 1896. Shortly after that the house
closed up. In the beginning of March 1897 a man came to me
while I was on patrol. I do not know his name. He was a fat
man who had been banished. He said "Why do you want to go
down past the gambling house in the Ngau Lan Hong (Wa Lane)
You frighten the people there. Do you know Cheng On, the Opium
Farmer's man?"I said "Yes, I do. Then he said "I will tell
The evidence that Cheng On
Cheng On to go and see you.
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