CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8] — Page 381

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Confidential

My dear May,

A 380

16th June 1897

From two different quarters, at different times, the following information has been given me & I think it my duty to pass it on to you.

1. There is in Hong Kong a well-recommended gambling house keeper, named Sam Ah Cha. This party's houses are Lum Ah Chee, Lun...

2. They have fully organised gambling establishments constantly going on in Taiping Shan, Lan Hor Street, and other houses in the same street to which they periodically move. All these houses have special exits into other houses behind and at the sides, especially through a brothel at the back.

3. The Lum Kee sailors' stop shop, in a street leading downhill from Taipingshan, is a sort of depot or headquarters & in a large chest to be found in the upper floor of this house are gambling account books, watches, rings, and other jewelry and valuables won from gamblers.

4. The Master Sam Ah Cha's concubine lives with his medicine shops, of which...

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Confidential My dear May, A 380 16th June 1897 From two different quarters, at different times, the following information has been given me & I think it my duty to pass it on to you. 1. There is in Hong Kong a well-recommended gambling house keeper, named Sam Ah Cha. This party's houses are Lum Ah Chee, Lun... 2. They have fully organised gambling establishments constantly going on in Taiping Shan, Lan Hor Street, and other houses in the same street to which they periodically move. All these houses have special exits into other houses behind and at the sides, especially through a brothel at the back. 3. The Lum Kee sailors' stop shop, in a street leading downhill from Taipingshan, is a sort of depot or headquarters & in a large chest to be found in the upper floor of this house are gambling account books, watches, rings, and other jewelry and valuables won from gamblers. 4. The Master Sam Ah Cha's concubine lives with his medicine shops, of which...
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Confidential

My dear may

A

380

16th June 1897

From two different quarters

tat different time's the following information has been given me & I think it my duty to pass it on to you. 1. There is in Iong Kong

2.

a well Recomien

gambling house Keeper, named Sam a cha This parties

Lun

a chee

They have fully organised gambling establishments constantly going

in

Taiping than Igan Lan Hor. Street Яго roz

a Pork fat shop, rother houses in the same street to which they

periodically. All these houses have special exits into other houses behind and at the sides, especially througle

a brothel at the back.

3. The Lum Kee sailors stop shop, in a

street leading down hill from Tampingshan is a sort of depot or head quarters &

in

C

d

large chest to be found in the upper floor ofitio house are

gambling account Books

Rafet the

the watches

ring's rother jewelry and valuables won from gamblers.

to be

No 3

in

a

This shop is said.

street called Tang Kai Hom

4. The Master Sam

Concubine's

A

a cha lives witte his medecine shops of

which

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