*Kİ, SEælkäkinen 19, 301
COP Y.
No. 268.
Sir,
Endosure
1.
IREC
502
Realide ber 04,
56
Hongkong, 23rd. August, 1897.
1 have the honour to forward the notes of
evidence which I took on the 21st. instant, in the presence and
with the assistance of the Crown Solicitor, in a charge which
1 made against Sergeant Holt for neglect of duty in not report-
ing a gambling house at No. 2 Wa Lane, and with having received
bribes not to report the said gambling house.
The charge arose out of the discoveries
made at No. 3 Bast Street on the occasion of the raid made by
me on the 21st, of June last.
You will observe that Sergeant Holt asked
no questions of the witnesses and made no defence whatever.
When he left the room in which the case
was heard, he remarked to the Acting Chief Inspector who had
left the room with him "1 have not got a doliar to my name.
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I have been a b y fool and shall have to go on the beach".
I take that statement as tantamount to
an admission of his guilt.
I recommend the dismissal of Sergeant
Bolt under Section 24 of Ordinance 14 of 1887.
I should mention that was obliged to
promise B.C.187 Hau Hang that I would not use him as a witness
in a criminal prosecution of Holt. If I had not done so.1
should not have got him to speak.
The Honourable
The Colonial Secretary.
Otherwise of course Holt might have been
proceeded