CO129-146 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [10-12] — Page 311

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

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Sotertoo (curses and 8) as a

confedential servant to a sapancee

Merchant

accompanied his Master

thie Colony-

to

from

He had been known

boy to his Master who stated

a

that he had always had a good.

character.

to each

Soterloo pleaded guilty charge - The total amount in value

which he had feloniously obtained

of

between the 2nd and 19th last appears to have been execoding $1100.-

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October

a dum-

From the depositions taken before Mr May copies of which __ have directed to be forwarded to you for the Information of this Excellency the

>

Lieutenant Governor it appears

that the allurements of four Licensed Gambling Houses flaunted in the public streets tempted the poor?... man into chese Houses and that

as.

be lost his Master's monies he

sought

to restore them

from time to

time by starting further

feloniously obtained;, and he is now

not only

a convicted felon but a

man whose remorse has disturbed his reason)

Whether this anan's destruction.

socially and mentally, is more attributable to the temptation or to the criminal so templed and whether

Governmental regulations

qulations under -...

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