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who was then asked if he had any question to put to the Baid Henry Ellis. Your Petitionar replied that he had no
questions to ask.
6. Your Petitioner then was charged by the Assistant Superintendent with telling a falsehood in the statement mada by him on the previous day.
ry.
Your Petitioner in reply to the Assistant Superintendent stated by way of explanation that when he made his statement on the previous day he was excited and for that reason possibly omitted to give some information and on being then asked for any further explanation stated that he reserved his defence.
8. On the following day your Petitioner was informed by the Assistant Superintendent that he was degraded to the rank of Warder, and such degradation thereupon tock effect.
?. Your Petitioner thereupon brought his case to the notice
of His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong with a view to an
enquiry being held into the circumstances of his case but his
request was not granted.
10.
Your Petitioner holds a good record in his service as Principal Tarder and for a period of nine months in the years
1909 and 1910 acted as Chief warder of the Gaol. Your
Petitioner also served for a period of five years from 1996 to 1901 in H. M. General Prison Berlinnie Glasgow and at Dundee
Prison under the Prison Commissioners of Scotland.
11.
Your Petitioner has a wife and two children and is a man
of nearly 38 years of age.
12. Under the circumstances above referred to your Petitioner
considers that he has not received fair treatment in this
matter inasmuch as apart from his conversation with the
Assistant Superintendent of Victoria Gaol he has been given no
Opportunity of making any explanation of what took place and
as your Petitionar did not to his knowledge make any false
statement he is wholly unaware of the exact nature of the
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