CO129-277 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [8-10] — Page 387

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Enclosure 5.

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Minute by the Attorney General.

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Hon. Colonial Secretary,

As regards Indian Police Sergeant 547 Khaim Singh the case seems to be as follows:-

We who have had to do with many of these cases, know that the amounts paid by the Wa Lane House usually were the same as those paid by the Cheung Hing Street establishment. Here, in the daily account slips of the Wa Lane House found at East Street, is an entry in each of the slips from 4th. to 18th, June 547 85 cents, "Fuk". That means a man named Fuk had 85 cents a day given him to pay 547, which is the number of this Indian Sergeant.

Now whether Tse Fuk is mistaken or not as to the date he first began paying Sergeant No. 547, he swears he paid him last on 18th. June at 5 o'clock specifying the place where he paid him, and he picks out the Sergeant from among others.

In corroboration of this a man named Un-Kin picks out No. 547 and identifies him as the man he paid at the rate of 85 cents a day (getting usually 5 of them himself as "cu.shaw") for the Cheung Hing Street establishment.

In my opinion the Sergeant should be dismissed.

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