COPY.
Hon. Colonial Secretary,
C.O.
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RECE
REGE 10 APR 13
Mrs. Cotton was married to Mr. Cotton on 14th.
January, 1890, at the British Consulate Kiungchow (near Pakhoi). I
have seen the certificate. So far as Mrs. Cotton knows he is not
married to any other womanı, but
(a) Before her marriage to him Cotton had been living
with a woman called Emily Jones at Ipswich. By her
he has a son (and grandchildren)
(b) When he was home on leave in 1908, Cotton had rela-
-tions with two different women at Newton-on-()use,
Yorkshire
viz:-
Violet Anderson
Edie Fowler
and has a child by each of them.
Cotton gave his wife letters from these women and photos of the
children and told her to use them as she pleased.
2.
Previously to his leave in 1908, Cotton treated his
wife well. On his return he took to drink and treated her at times
very brutally. On one occasion he turned her and her children into
the street (Queen's Road East) in their bed clothes.
3.
Since he went home Cotton has written to other
people in Hongkong asking them how his wife is living. In one letter which Mrs. Cotton has seen, he suggests that she is living
with another man.
A
lars. Kemp has been good enough to visit Mrs.
Cotton for me at her house. There is no indication that she is
living anything but a straight life.
A girl, well-known to the Y.W.C.A. is living in the same room as Mrs. Cotton and her children. The other rooms
in the flat are sub-let by Mra. Cotton to respectable people.
5.
Mrs. Cotton does not believe that her husband really wants her and her children in England, and Cotton's conduct up to
the