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actually admitted he had received bribes from gamblers,
Petitioner emphatically denies that he ever
but your made such admission or
said or did anything that could be so interpreted, he has always denied the charge except when he
was threatened with prosecution and fully expected and hoped to be charged before a Magistrate
when, as an experienced police officer he naturally decided to reserve his defence until the proper time for making it arrived. Your Petitioner respectfully submits that if there had been any such admission on his part it is extremely unlikely that M. May would have refrained from prosecuting him after the means he had taken to
procure evidence, or that your Petitioner would have escaped the punishment such an offence would have deserved.
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Your Petitioner was never fairly tried or found guilty of any dereliction of duty, on the contrary he honestly performed his duty to the best of his ability, and while having
no special responsibility in respect to gambling he did as much towards suppressing it as any officer of equal rank, seeing this he considers he has been especially harshly treated, for while other Europeans and Chinese against whom evidence was equally strong in every respect have been granted Pensions, and when not entitled by length of service to Pensions, to bonuses, he alone of the Europeans has been disgraced by the stigma
of dismissal and greatly injured by the deprivation
of the pension he had earned by long and faithful service in a tropical Colony.
5. Your Petitioner most respectfully begs you to take the above stated facts into consideration and grant him a Pension as you already have those whose cases were exactly similar to his own.
Your most humble obedient servant
Jud. Holt
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