CO129-291 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [5-6] — Page 186

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I, CHENG ON of Victoria in the Colony of Hong-Kong, Chief Chinese Excise Officer to the present Opium Farmer do solemnly and sincerely declare and say as follows:

1. I was in the Hong-Kong Police Force for sixteen years, resigning about December, 1892, and at the time of resigning commuting my pension.

2. I then left Hong-Kong for Selangor in the Straits Settlements, where I remained until 1894, following the occupation of a Miner. On my return to Hong-Kong, I proceeded to my native country in the Kwei Sin District, Province of Kwong Tung Empire of China, where I remained until 1896. Early in which year I returned to Hong-Kong and after a few months became Chief Chinese Excise Officer to the then Opium Farmer in Hong-Kong. I became such Chief Chinese Excise Officer in June or July 1896 and was in such service at the date of the trial of Job Witchell for bribery.

3. I was one of the witnesses for the Crown at the trial of the said Job Witchell, then an Inspector of Police, who was charged with receiving a bribe. Such trial took place in the Supreme Court of Hong-Kong at the end of July and the beginning of August, 1897.

4. I left the Colony of Hong-Kong immediately after such trial and did not return until the 11th day of October