CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8] — Page 575

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Zeong Kut Po states that he is Interpreter

Chang

to Hore,Inspector of Nuisances in the employ of the Sanita

ry Board, that in September 1895 he went with Inspector Hore

to a house in Wa Lane, that the door was shut, that Inspector

Hore broke open the door and that they went upstairs and

into a room that had recently been used for gambling. That

shortly afterwards a man named Poon Woon requested him, Tear

Yut Po to offer to pay Inspector Hore, on behalf of the owners

of the gambling house in Wa Lane $1.50 per day if the Ins-

pector would not disturb the gambling house, that the Ins-

pector refused to accept the money; but a few days after-

wards Mrs.Hore, or Inspector Hore's mistress, agreed to ac-

cept money from the keepers of the gambling house through

Ching Teeng Yut Po and that $1 per day was paid by Tsong Yut Po

to Inspector Hore's mistress from that time until July 1896;

that in July 1996 the amount was at the request of Mrs.Hore

increased to two dollars per day and that this amount was

paid regularly every Monday morning until July 1897 and that

after the money was paid Inspector Høre did not disturb the

gambling house in Wa Lane or report its existence to the

Government.