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Bad Charrioters do undoubtedly frequent the Garming Houses; beit I
unable to call to mind a single -Cese in which it has appeared that a uspcolable Chinese had been tempted, by Gorming Hauses flaunted in the Problie Streets to commit Larceny for the purposes of indulging in the Vace
of Gambling. It is true that in some:
instances thieves who have been
convicted at the Supreme Court, have keen cunning enough to say (in the hope of exciting the Commiseration of the Judon) that they have been ruined
Gaming Houses, and were
in the
thereby driven to commit theft; but whenever the Story has been sifted
it has been found to be ritterly falas.
The Chief Justice himself admits
10
in his letter that one
to which he refers,
of the two Prisoners
quilty of this
nery allempt at Deception!
11.
As for the other Prisoner, the Japanese Laterloo, he was evidently
bad Character, for he not only
very
pleaded guilty to an
Information
for obtaining money by false pritence, but to another Information for ... Stealing his Master's Watch and, Japanese Passport, and other articles
which he sold to trades,
- people. He simply gambled with his plunder
like other thieves.
12.
The Chief Justice would sum
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