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Enclosure 5.
Evidence.
lat. witness.
Hugh Adair Nisbet; duly sworn,
27th. November, 1913.
I am Registrar of the Supreme Court and have been so since
August, 1911.
During that period there have been various Deputy or Assist- -ant Registrars namely Messrs. Lee-Jones, Helbourne, Fletcher, McElderry and Mr. Lloyd (since June 30th., 1913).
Messrs. Lee-Jones and Melbourne are the permanent Deputy Registrars.
Alim Khan was in my office when I arrived and remained there till June 30th., 1913, when he was transferred to the Post Office. Amongst my duties is the administration of the Estate of deceased persons.
Alim Khan's duties were those of General clerk and the Chief Probate Clerk and in a trusted position; he was 3rd. grade clerk; he also acted in the Courts as Indian interpreter. There have been irregularities in Alim Khan's work: on the 2nd. July, 1913, I found a locked drawer in his desk and on sending for him he opened it and in it I found 3 Probate files one of which was that of D. A. Cordeiro deceased: they appeared to be in order. That evening I received a note from Alim Khan (Exhibit 'A'). The next morning he brought round $11.20 in stamps. This all made me suspicious and I began to make an investigation of the Probate files.
During my investigations a Er. Razack handed me another letter (Exhibit 'B') from Alim Khan dated 7th. July, 1913.
On the 10th. or 11th. I sent for Alim Khan and mentioned to
him Razack's case, and those of Nam Ly Singh (deceased) and Chan Mow Yin (deceased). The latter two appeared to be cases in which money had been paid and not accounted for.
Alim Khan said that in Nam Ly Singh's case he had had $13.20
and in Chan Mow Yin's case $4.80 and that he would send the money.
He sent it under cover of a letter of 12th. July 1913.
(Exhibit '0').
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On 15th. July I saw him again. In the course of investigation
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