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explanation of the principal entries in the list,named va- rious persons as intermediaries in carrying bribes to va-
rious Police and other officers.
On enquiry every one of these persons were
found to exist, and to have been following the avocations Sham In said they were up to time of his conviction when those of them that were not arrested mysteriously disap-
peared from the Colony. One of these persons was the Inter- preter Tseng Ut Po whom Sham In named as the person through whom Hore was bribed. Tseng Ut Po admitted it and gave evi-
dence on which Hore was dismissed.
If the list was a bogus one why should Sham
In have gone to the trouble of inventing these interme-
diaries, and if they were not really intermediaries why did
they run away from the Colony and why have they never re-
turned.
(c) If Sham In was not engaged in bribing
the Police for a number of years,how did he gain the extra-
ordinary knowledge of the Police and their movements that
he has given proof of. To take the European Police alone, how
did he know for instance that the Petitioner left the Colo-
ny before the Great Plague and returned after the Plague,or
if he had heard it what interest had he in remembering it.
That No.91 (Sergt. Hall) when in the Central
District had charge of the gambling section, that No.29 (In
spector Kemp) had charge of at the time the statement was
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