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*Pern" on the 9th instant I was informed by the
Police Inspector that a man named Frank Wilder, an-
swering to the description contained in the tele-
gran received from His Majesty's Consul-General in
Shanghai, was on board the vessel.
The Police hav-
ing shadowed the man while the vessel was in port
informed me to-day that the Steamship "Peru" had
left and that Frank Wilder had proceeded in her.
The vessel being bound for San Francisco (viâ
Honolulu) I at once telegraphed in cypher to the
Colonial Secretary at Hongkong to the following ef-
fect:-
telegram.
Consul-General Shanghai on 6th repeated your
The telegraphic description of Ernest
Horwitz was incomplete but an individual answering
the description named Frank Wilder arrived and left
per Steamship "Peru' bound for San Francisco.
There being no Extradition Treaty the Japanese
Government declined to arrest but at the request of
His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires Police were ordered
to watch.
I made personally such enquiries as I could with-
out exciting suspicion and am satisfied that the man
answered the description telegraphed to me but it was
hardly distinctive enough to identify Frank Wilder as
the fugitive criminal and I have stated this in my
telegram to the Colonial Secretary.
I am writing to the Colonial Secretary to record
and amplify my telegram but as there is little or
nothing to add I hasten to put you in possession of
the facts of the case and to bring to your notice the
prompt and efficient manner in which the Japanese
Police Authorities have carried out your wishes in
the matter.
(Signed)
I have &c.,
A. M. Chalmers.
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