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the names of persons who had no connection whatever with the suppression of gambling appear on it. Why should Sham In pre- tend that it was necessary to bribe an Inspector of Nui- sances, a Clerk in the Treasury, an Interpreter in the Su- preme Court, and the clerical staff in the Registrar Gene- ral's Office,two masters of Government Schools, one of whom is an Indian, almost the entire clerical staff at the Magis- tracy,and several numbers of the Water Police who have nothing to do with the suppression of gambling on shore.
Surely such peculiar entries would be cal- culated to raise suspicions in the minds of those who were swindled by these false entries. How much simpler and safer to have inserted the names of some of the European Police Inspectors which are conspicuous by their absence?
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The Petitioner relying on an answer obtained under cross-examination from Sham In seeks to establish that the Wa Lane gambling house was a mere coolie gambling house.
'But the jewellery seized by me at East
Street was valued by Sham In at $800 and there was over
$1,000 in cash seized with it. While in cross-examination by the Petitioner Sham In stated that $1,000 a day changed hands on the average in the house when gambling was going
on.
The books put in evidence at the Witchell
Trial
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