CO129-364 - Public Offices & Others - 1909 — Page 255

Sir,

To The Right Honourable, The Earl of Elgin,,

Secretary of State for the Colonies,

not

February, 1909.

6903

253

In my previous petitions I Ex, P.S. 43. John Holt have pointed out that I was wrongfully dismissed from the Hong Kong Police Force on the 4th, of August 1897. and with other Police Officers was charged by Mr G.r. May who was then practically our young Captain Superintendent of Police, accused of receiving - .bribes from Gamblers ( whom I have been very instrumental in arresting, and getting convictions against) on a date preferred whilst I was in Shanghai on duty of identification, and returned with a rendition prisoner.

then singularly

After several weeks suspension, at an isolated Police, we were Station commanded to return to the Central Station, then to the Offices of Victoria Gaol, and cross questioned by Mr May instructed by Mr Dennya a Solicitor, and informed that we should be dismissed without having had an opportunity of engaging legal advise, the only person a well known Gambling House Keeper, at the time under going nine months imprisonment, and afraid or banishment, who said he did not know me, but who had in his possession when arrested, a book in Chinese one dollar against a designation which Mr May made out referred to me (at this time Mr May had appointed himself Governor of the Gaol by offering to do the work without remuneration ) and a LuiKong who had been locked up in Gaol with the other Chinese detectives and tretned with banishment the majority of whom were banished this one LuiKong was afterwards allowed to continue his duties

as a Chinese P.C.

and

The Captain Superintendent of Police, Mr May and the Honourable HoKai a member of the Legislative Council, several other Government Officials, designations were also in this book as having received money.

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