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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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Shelton Hooper:-

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clerk who wrote the letters (other than Government letters) what the letters were about, which made me *suspect there was something wrong. The clerk's name

*was Chin Ta Wen-

Lue Chi

"I have not seen sim-Glade for 4 or 5 years,

"I am living at Chan Chun. I admit having received "presents from Yan Ying. Signed. To Man Fai.

I read itover to him, and he signed it, and he said he wished to add something in his own hand, and he wrote

"I admit having received presents from Han Hing. This

introducing

was the first letter he sent in to me,

himself -

. Canton 5th August 1906.

"A. Shelton Hooper Esq.,

"Dear Sir,

*

I, the undersigned, bag to request that you will be "good enough to let me know when you can conveniently

"see me. I was lately employed in the Sanitary Bor-d "Office, Hongkong; and wish to have an interview with

*you.

Yours faithfully, agd. Le Man Kai.

I asked him to meet me again at 5 o'clock that night,

and he said he would, and came in hoard, and they said

they could not find me. He left a letter for me. This

is the letter:

"gir,

Canton 5th August 1906.

A With reference to the alleged suspicion that I am "the proprietor or partner of the Yan Hing firm, I beg

"to give the following reason, for which I believe the "auspicion was made.

*As my house is quite close to the Man Hing premises, * was in the habit of calling on him 3 or 4 times a "úsok after my evening walk to have a chat, and to

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