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It is here, the second item, a payment, on the top margin.
Mr. May:
I think it is clear now.
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His Excellency: It was all repaid eventually.
Mr. Howett: Neither of these payments had any reference to the $25.
Defendant: That has been paid back on the instalment plan, every Month $5 and $10 and $5.
Mr. May: You had better put that to the witness.
Defendant:
Your Excellency, this is not the manager and he knows nothing about it.
His Excellency: Well, ask him what he is and ask him where the other man is.
Defendant:
I know the chief accountant because I paid my bill to him.
His Excellency: You might ask these questions for him, Mr. Attorney.
Mr. Gompertz: Is it not a fact that the inspector paid you back that $25 by $5 instalments every month?
A. No.
Defendant: Do you remember one afternoon at the head of the stairs when I paid you at the table in the back room ten dollars and you wanted a commission on the difference between Hongkong currency and the Chinese - sixty cents?
A. No.
Q. Why has that other person not been here this afternoon that received the money, the manager?
A. The large man. He is a very heavy-set man.
A. Which one?
Defendant:
I am the manager.
He has only lately been manager then.
Mr. May reads third charge and answer.
Mr. Thomson: It is finished.