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actually admitted he had received bribes from gamblers,

Petitioner emphatically denies that he ever

but

your made such admission ov

said or did anything that could be so interpreted, he has always denied the charge except when he

was threatened with prosecution and fully expected and hoped to be charged before a Magistrate

when

as an experienced police officer he naturally decided to reserve his defence until the proper time for making it arrived. Your Petitioner respectfully submits that if there had been any such admission on his part it is extremely unlikely that M. May would have refrawied from prosecuting him after the means he had taken to

Petitioner would have procure evidence, or that

your

escaped the punishment such as such an offence

would have deserved.

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Your Petitioner was

never fairly tried or found guilty of any dielection of duty, on the contrary he honestly performed his duty to the best of his ability, and while having

no special responsibility in respect to gambling he did so much towards suppressing it as any officer of equal rank, seeing this he considers he has been expecially harshly treated, for while other Europeans and Chinese against whom evidence was Dame Kuid

and equally strong in every respect have been granted Pensions, and when out entitled by length of service to Pensions, to bonuses, he alone of the Europeans has been disgraced by the stigma

of the

of

dismissal and greatly injured by the deprivation

of the pension he had earned by long and faithful. service in a tropical Colony-

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5. Your Petitioner most respectfully begs you to take the

above stated facts into consideration and grant

hem

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Pension

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you already have those whose cases were exactly similar to his ours.

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Your anost humble obertient servant

Jud. Holt

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