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and not scattered through the list but in justaposition one
with another under the names of the intermediaries through
whom Sam Yin says he paid them? Is it conceivable that, as
apparently suggested in paragraph 5 of the Petition, there
should be in Hong-Kong 20 persons with precisely the same
names as 20 Detectives in the Police Force?
They admit now that they knew of gambling in
Wa Lane and Cheung Hing Street. But during the whole of the
exhaustive enquiries that have been made into the history of
the gambling in Wa Lane & Cheung Hing Street during the
three years previous to the 21st.of June 1897, it has not
transpired that there were in those lanes any other gambling
houses than the ones opened by Sam Yin's employers and their
partner Lam Chi, and I can asseverate that none of the Chi-
nese Detectives ever took any steps to bring the existence
of those houses to my notice,or to otherwise disturb them
in any way.
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2
In paragraph 23 of my Report above referred
to I have commented on the statement made by Tang Chung a
statement which largely corroborated what Sam Yin said about
him.
At the end of the same paragraph I referred
to Yeung Fat's statement in which he made the damning admis-
sion that he believed the man Kwai Tau Hoi used to pay bribes
to Stanton, Quincey & Baker,
Baker beter!
Is that knowledge_compatible with an absolute
ignorance of Sam Yin (who identified him) and the gambling
house
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