No.533.
Hongkong.
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REC
GovernmenHoude J........ 04
Hongkong, 23rd. November, 1903.
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sir,
With reference to Mr. Chamberlain's Despatch
No. 366 of the 8th. ultimo, I have the honour to transmit as
requested the enclosed copy of Mr. May's letter of the 23rd.
August. 1897, in which he forwarded the notes of evidence
against and recommended the dismissal of Sergeant Holt, to-
gether with Mr. Stewart-lockhart's minute of the 23rd. August
and Governor Sir William Robinson's minute of the 24th. August
approving of Holt's dismissal. The case was reported to your
predecessor in Sir William Robinson's Despatch No. 190 of the
7th. September, 1897.
Enclosure 1. 23rd August, 1897 one losure 2
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2.
The case of Sergeant Holt differed in this
important particular from those of all the other European
Officers except Witchell implicated in the Wa Lane case, that
there was direct evidence of the payment of bribes to him.
For the reason stated in Mr. May's letter referred to above
it was not possible to use the evidence of the person who
actually paid the bribe to Sergeant Holt in a criminal prose-
cution.
The cases of Sergeants Macaulay and McIver,
to which Mr. Holt refers, were reported to Mr. Chamberlain in
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
ALFRED LYTTELTON, M.P.,
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