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retained by the Government,

As regards Hau Hang it must not be forgotten

that his confession was extracted from him under somewhat pe-

culiar circumstances,

This Constable went to England for Her Majes-

ty's Diamond Jubilee Celebration. I had some influence with the

man, as he,like Au Hing, had worked with me all through the

Plague of 1894, and I thought if I could get a speed of him be-

fore any one else in the Colony (and Stanton, Quincey and Baker

were then at large besides many other European, Indians and

Chinese implicated in the case) I might get some information

from him.

I therefore had the steamer which was convey-

ing him back, boarded at the entrance to the Harbour by Chief

Detective Inspector Hanson who conveyed Hau Hang direct to my

office at the Gaol. He confessed to me there and made the state-

ment which is on record in C.S.0.2220 of 1897.

He afterwards gave evidence against Stanton,

Quincey, Baker and Holt and he has since obtained for me the

statement of Wong Kwok, and the man Pang On whose statement I

sent to you yesterday, besides giving me much other valuable

information.

It is true that I held out no promise of re-

ward or other advantage to him if he confessed, but it is idle

to suppose that he was not influenced by hope and expectation

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