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Submit that the change is not proved by
any adequate evidence
way
Which
the
and
the infper whole affair
conducted hands to create a presumption in
lus favour.
hit lox
I think he should be pausimed
how
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an not inconsistent
on
The notes of Evidua forwarded
with Scrypt Holt's story as told in his partition 34787/08. There is only the evidence of pre nation policeman who alleged that he handed the bribes
to Holt (but who was not prefaced to face the music in a court of law); and the fact that Holl made
questions is not no statement & asked no
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inconsistent with his assertion that be thereby practically intended to rease his defence. on the other hand I think it probable that Holt, berne, a policeman, knew perfectly will that he way browny dealt with departmentally (and not judicially ) under ose 24 of ander 14 of 1887, that he never axpected to be Cross, ut before chaseze of magistrati subacqueath, Cribery, and that, if he had so expected, incotand of merely "making no statement" he would, as the moult of his police experience, haves used some expression definitily rescoving
his defence until he was brought befor
the magistrats. He appears to have done nothing of the kind, and his
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bully consi- all the mstanner
case
conduct in this wopact is I think stranger widence against laim thran wittore the Evidence of P.C. 187
of his alleged confession. He be braved at the time as if he were
confiling, this with the Evidence
quilling and
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Evidence against hins for
what it is worth. I should on the whot bi inclined to represe to reconsider his case
hi Cox
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8/1
The case secunts difficult to decide but
I lean towards treating him in the
Same way
who wre
as the pot while
probably equally quilly or jugorent.
M. Lucas
Ishould decline to reopen
thi's
case. Of policeman knows enough of
law & practice not to act as
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if he had
Start did
a valid defence. Tape
with Mr Ridley?.
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911
Say that having communicated with the Gobain of Hongkong mi dyttelton is Ounable to comply with his petition to be granted a heusion in respect of
In the
his favice
colony, and this
and this ancare must
for considered as final tax let.
Let M. Cox see the lattad
mi-Cox
me see it
C.Pd. 9 at once