Q.
Proopt hipe
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And you have never been offered any presents that you
have had to refuse ?
A.
I have.
Q.
What sort of presents were they?
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A.
When I lived at 17 Morrison Hill Road, I instructed my
boy when I went out not to receive presents. That was
in 1903, I think the early part of 1903. When I went
out, he was to look the door and nobody was to ba
allowed into the house,
A.
23654 Were presents brought to your house on more than one
occasion ?
I refused them all. I shut the door that day, and I
had the misfortune to refuse a lady friend, s
Europe in, who sent a present to my wife on Tmas day
1903.
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Have you had presents offered to you since, that you
have had to refuse ?
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TWO +
I think
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I have had one or two offered to mo,
when I stayed with a man Stewart at Sommerville at
Wanchai Road.
A.
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Q.
And those presents you alsó refused ?
A.
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Yes. I had further in Barrow Terrase. I had two
presents offered me there. I also refused them, and
told the man to go away. I found the presents in the
house that I resided in, the next morning.
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Was this Xmas time ?
A.
It was at Xmas time.
Were the presents of any particular value ?
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A.
A.
A.
What particularly directed my attention was a turkey. 23659
You never had any money offered to you, or sent to you?
No, never.
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Who were those people who sent you those presents ?
I thought this man was my Compradors, Rung Cheung. I
made it a point to refuse my Compradore's presents. I
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