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So that the Petitioner, the experienced of-

ficer of 25 years service in the Colony who on account of his knowledge of the Chinese language and general intelligence and capacity was selected by my predecessor to take charge

of the Detective Staff and was by myself recommended to be made Chief Detective Inspector, asks the Secretary of State to believe that, while the two Detective Sergeants acting directly under the Petitioner's orders on the Detective

Staff, and a junior Inspector, knew about this gambling house in Wa Lane, he alone remained in absolute ignorance of

it!

But it is hardly necessary to confound the

Petitioner out of the mouths of others, for in his cross-exa-

mination of Sham In he has himself shewn that he had at any

rate knowleage of a gambling gang with which Sham In was

connected, and that he had accurate information of its move-

ments in the Spring of 1895,

How otherwise did he know that it was gan-

bling in Stanley Street in 1895, and knowing that it was ear-

rying on gambling there why did he make no report on the

subject.

The Petitioner in paragraph 23 says that he

had no opportunity of examining Shan In's list as a whole

and that he has "no doubt it would repay a critical exami-

nation".

The