CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8] — Page 577

with a table laid with implements of gambling. The people had all

by the roof. "I did not report this as

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I did not consider it

any part of my duty to report gambling. I have no instructions to that effect.

4.

on two

Ame time after this I was asked by my interprèter occasions to receive money from the gambling house but Irefused

I went up to the said again on several subsequent vccasions under orders for the purpose of measuring the capacity of the house with a crowding and for other sanitary

House

a view to over-

purposes,

but I never saw any gambling going on in that ~ house on

any of the said se-

Casions

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occasions except the first one. 5. I had no knowledge that

my

mistress was

was recei

receiving any

money from the gamblers and

I should not have allowed it

if I had known it.

seli

I have never received

any money

my- whatever, directly

- or indireally from heepers of gam- bling houses, nor have I authorized.

any

one to receive such

money on

my behalf; this I declare to be

the absolute truth.

6...

not

my

acts as

I respectfully submit that the fact that a woman, whos my wife, and simply house keeper, has been reviving money from the gambling (without my knowledge as admitted by the two actors in the transaction, to no evidence against me, horány

house,

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