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Honourable C. P. CHATER.-The brothel keeper paid the money?
A. The sister paid, I believe.
Honourable Ho KAL--Do you say the sister of this So MUI paid the brothel keeper $100 for expenses ?
A. Yes.
The CHAIRMAN.-What expenses?
A. An inmate of the brothel said the brothel keeper said for getting her out of the Pó Léung Kuk.
Honourable C. P. CHATER.-The money then was supposed to have been paid to the Pó Léung Kuk?
A. Yes, the brothel keeper said he had paid that to get her out.
The CHAIRMAN.-Have you enquired into the case?
A.
Yes, and I think we found that the brothel keeper was connected with a man
you dismissed,
Honourable C. P. CHATER,--Recently?
A. Yes.
The CHAIRMAN.-That was Mox LAI CHI.
Honourable T. H. WHITEHEAD.-Is he still here?
A. I do not know.
Honourable T. H. WHITEHEAD.-I think we might have him up.
He told me so.
The CHAIRMAN.I understand that you have interviewed him.
Honourable T. H. WHITEHEAD.-He wrote a letter to me and called at my office.
The CHAIRMAN (to witness).-Did this girl say that she gave anything to the Pó Léung Kuk?
A. Not directly; the brothel keeper took the money from her.
Honourable Ho KAL--As I understand it there were two girls in a brothel. So FUK and So Mur, the latter was taken to the Pó Léung Kuk and So Fuk paid the brothel keeper $100 which the keeper said he received and gave away in order to get So Mur out of the Pó Léung Kuk.
The CHAIRMAN.-Where is So Mur?
A.--Still here.
Q. In a brothel ?
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A. Yes.
Q.--Have you any other cases?
A.Some other cases that I don't know about, but in this one Mr WONG SING TUNG assisted a great deal in getting the girl out.
Honourable C. P. CHATER.-Who is he?
A. He was a member of the Committee of last year. He is a very respectable man. He assisted to get this girl out and he told the members of the Pó Léung Kuk not to detain her, and therefore she got out. We had a dinner party and so I found out.
The CHAIRMAN.-Have you any other cases?
A.—I heard of several cases but I took no interest in them.
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