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intended to reserve his defence it is difficult to subpone that he would not have mace some protestation of irpo- cence. It is still more difficult to suppose that when he found that he was to be recommended for dismissal he would, if innocent, still have abstained from assert- ing his innocence.

I believe the truth of the matter to be that Holt was guilty, and at the time had nothing to say. That when he heard that other policemen had successfully appealed, he thought that he also might as well try bis luck. That he took advice how to proceed (the petition of 1903 was certainly drawn in a lawyer's office, and it is hardly less certain that that of que 1899 is not his handiwork and it was seen that his silence at the enquiry would be a fatal obstacle unless it ad could be explained away. That the plea of intending to

reserve his defence is merely due to the legal ingenuity of his advisers.

I should reply that the matter was considered in 1908

by the then Governor, Sir H. Plake, and that the S.

of S. is not prepared to reopen the case.

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