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14.

erher

J

many

- for defence of rioters, and

candiaw, posible when a large

large criminal

clap wisted and terrorized the peaceble

residents here

ly

the

menace of

of w

A

the

molestation to their families

mainland, but now quite impossible, and the fact that where formerly twenty

defended by Comel or

Criminal

Attorney

not

Amare!

at the Police Courts, there is now

than one, strongly caroborates this. I have only mentioned a few of

ih.

var e

-manifest advantages which

have resulted from licensing gambling.

As to Mr Caldwell Mr. Murraw again right in saying that I have always maintained his personal innocence, though it does not state that I always

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thought it unseemly that Mr Caldwell should remain Protector of the Chinese

and a Justice of the Peace after it shewn that his marriage with a

had enabled

was

Chinese

of her Chinese relatives

+

to do what itey always will do, right

trade upon their connection, however

remote, with

any person in

in powver, that

they do so

always is notorions.. I

believe most sincerely that Mr. Caldwell

-perfectly innocent of any participation.

in, or conection wich

any of the

of the crimes of which Mes? Ausley and Marrow

hier. When I first

accuto

The Colony M. Caldwell

was

came to

Assistant

Superintendent of Police and Interpreter to the Supreme

Count in Chinese and)

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