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Hon. Attorney-General,
I beg to tender my answers to the charges:-
As to the 1st. charge I beg leave to explain that I
received a message at sometime after 4 p.m. from my wife who was
then enciente and I did not think I would be more than fifteen
minutes away: I am sorry I did not report the occurrence to you
at the time.
As to the 2nd. charge I beg leave to state that on my
applying for an hour's leave from 4 to 5 some two or three days
before you asked for a reason and when I said "private affairs"
you insisted upon my telling you the nature of the affairs, and
the repetition of such a request did, I regret to say, irritate
me somewhat. I beg to apologize for the occurrence.
As to the 3rd. I admit I stated I would give my reasons
to Mr. Fletcher, who was then present, weaning of course because
he understands Chinese and being a gentleman he would act im-
-partially. I certainly did not mean to imply that you were
neither clever nor a gentleman: your position speaks for itself.
As to the 4th. I beg to state that the gentleman
named therein had on a few occasions sent his own house boy 'to
look see' me (the boy himself told me this) and the fact that
you sent up the office coolie up to my house gave me the im- -pression that that gentleman might have communicated with you.
As to the 5th. the same reply; but I regret that I did
not explain to you at the time.
As to the 6th. I beg to state that if I had been in the condition alleged by him it was his duty to charge me then
and there.
As to the 7th. I do not admit that I was a nuisance to
the Police; but I do admit that I wrote up to Mr. Hanson asking
whether a Chinese Detective would casually look in, as I had a
case for him. The European P.C. locked and I told him that he
would not know of the case.
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