LIST OF CHARGES
PREFERRED BY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL TO THE GOVERNMENT AGAINST THE
REGISTRAR GENERAL,
1. With being unfit to be a Justice of the Peace.
2. With having a scandalous connection with a Brothel licensed by himself, namely, Brothel No. 48,
3. With having passed a portion of his life among Chinese outlaws and Pirates.
4. With an alliance with some of the worst Chinese in this Colony through his wife—a Chinese girl from
a Brothel,
5. With being a speculator in Brothels and Brothel Licenses.
6. With being long and intimately connected with Ma-chow Wong; and that that connection is still subsisting; and that the principal link in that connection is the bond of affinity by adoption according to Chinese law.
7. With being in the habit, on Ma-chow Wong's unsupported information, of arresting and discharging
persons, and of confiscating or restoring property.
8. That the Chinese dare not now complain of the connivances and procurements of Mr Caldwell, the
patron of the outlaw Ma-chow Wong.
9. With having procured bail for Ma-chow Wong: such bail being a servant of his own (Mr Caldwell's)
who had been but a month before in prison for debt.
10. With audaciously denying that the books and papers of the Pirate's Hong contain any evidence of Ma-chow Wong's guilt, with having deceived the Executive Council in the enquiry had relative to Ma-chow Wong, and with being convicted of falsehood by Mr May.
11. With being partner with Ma-chow Wong in a lorcha, and that there were entries in Ma-chow Wong's books, and made by him, of monies paid to Mr Caldwell on account or out of the produce of plunder made at sea.
12. With harbouring Ma-chow Wong's wife after his conviction.
13. With inducing the Attorney General at the beginning of 1857, to order the release of a great number
of men who Mr May knows to have been pirates, and who Mr Caldwell ought to have known at the time were pirates.
14. With buying land in the Colony since December last, when he became Licenser of Brothels.
15. With having once owned three unlicensed Hongkong Brothels at a time.
16. With having a Chinese Sister-in-law by blood or usage, who in 1856-57 was keeping Brothels.
17. With receiving the monthly rack rentals of Houses, and in particular of a Brothel standing on Crown
Lots, down to the present month of May.
18. With having informed Mr May, that he, Mr Caldwell, was a member of a Secret Society.
19. With having informed Mr May, that although he would not himself take bribes, he would not object
to his wife doing so.
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LIST OF CHARGES
PREFERRED BY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL TO THE GOVERNMENT AGAINST THE
REGISTRAR GENERAL,
1.With being unfit to be a Justice of the Peace.
2--With having a scandalous connection with a Brothel licensed by himself, namely, Brothel No. 48,
3. With having passed a portion of his life among Chinese outlaws and Pirates.
1. With an alliance with some of the worst Chinese in this Colony through his wife-a Chinese girl from
a Brothel,
3. With being a speculator in Brothels and Brothel Licenses.
6.---With being long and intimately connected with Ma-chow Wong; and that that connection is still subsisting; and that the principal link in that connection is the bond of affinity by adoption accord- ing to Chinese law.
7.—With being in the habit, on Ma-chow Wong's unsupported information, of arresting and discharging
persons, and of confiscating or restoring property.
S-That the Chinese dare not now complain of the connivances and procurements of Mr Caldwell, the
patron of the outlaw Ma-chow Wong.
9. With having procured bail for Ma-chow Wong: such bail being a servant of his own (Mr Caldwell's)
who had been but a month before in prison for debt.
10. With audaciously denying that the books and papers of the Pirate's Hong contain any evidence of Ma-chow Wong's guilt, with having deceived the Executive Council in the enquiry had relative to Ma-chow Wong, and with being convicted of falsehood by Mr May.
11. With being partner with Ma-chow Wong in a lorcha, and that there were entries in Ma-chow Wong's books, and made by him, of monies paid to Mr Caldwell on account or out of the produce of plunder made at sea.
1.2.-With harbouring Ma-chow Wong's wife after his conviction.
13.--With inducing the Attoney General at the begining of 1857, to order the release of a great number
of men who Mr May knows to have been pirates, and who Mr Caldwell ought to have known at the time were pirates.
11. With buying land in the Colony since December last, when he became Licenser of Brothels.
15. With having once owned three unlicensed Hongkong Brothels at a time.
16.—With having a Chinese Sister-in-law by blood or usage, who in 1856-57 was keeping Brothels.
17. With receiving the monthly rack rentals of Houses, and in particular of a Brothel standing on 11 Crown
Lots, down to the present month of May.
18.—With having informed Mr May, that he, Mr Caldwell, was a member of a Secret Society.
19.—With having informed Mr May, that although he would not himself take bribes, he would not object
to his wife doing so.
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