CO129-378 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [6-7] — Page 264

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However he refused to go up to the Colonial Secretary. I told him that I had discussed his conduct with Mr. Fletcher

and that he would be reported. He then asked if he was suspended. I told him that he was not, but that his application for leave was refused. I further told him that I would hold the report back for two hours to give him an opportunity of reconsidering his position with regard to the written apology and to his general impertinent be- -haviour. At the end of the two hours as he had not changed

his attitude in the least I reported him to the Colonial

Secretary.

These charges are based on the statements of Inspector Collett and P.C. Stuart, but I can corroborate them to a certain extent. On the 10th. April, 1911, I took charge of, the Attorney-General's Office. Mr. Rees Davies had left the Colony on Sunday the 9th. and had asked me to take charge on Monday the 10th. and I did so but as I had received no communication of my appointment direct from Government House or from the Colonial Secretary's Office (I was not in fact sworn in or gazetted for some days afterwards when my appointment was made retrospective) I did not feel justified in taking a strong line with the staff. I, however, noticed Law's behaviour particularly. He behaved in a manner which convinced me that he was

either mad, or drunk, or trying to "shew off" and to impress me with a sense of his importance. He did no work but kept coming into my room and fussing around and then he went to the desk at which I was writing and took up the desk telephone and rang up No. 15 (the Central Police Station) without asking my permission, and said through the telephone "I want you to send up a Chinese detective to my office. I am Ur. Law. The Attorney-General's Office. It is very important. No I cannot tell you what it is about. It must be a Chinese Detective. It is very important".

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