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and procurements of Mr. Caldwell, the patron of the outlaw Mah-Chow Wong [an inference].
9. With having procured bail for Mah-Chow Wong: such bail being a servant of his own (Mr. Caldwell's), who had been but a month before in prison for debt.
10. With audaciously denying that the books and papers of the Pirate's Hong contain any evidence of Mah-Chow Wong's guilt; with having deceived the Executive Council in the enquiry had relative to Mah-Chow Wong; and with being convicted of falsehood by Mr. May.
11. With being partner with Mah-Chow Wong in a lorcha; and that there were entries in Mah-Chow Wong's books, and made by him, of moneys paid to Mr. Caldwell on account or out of the produce of plunder made at sea.
12. With harbouring Mah-Chow Wong's wife after his conviction.
13. With inducing the Attorney-General, at the beginning of 1857, to order the release of a great number of men who Mr. May knows to have been pirates, and who Mr. Caldwell ought to have known at the time were pirates.
14. With buying land in the colony since December last, when he became Licenser of Brothels.
15. With having once owned three unlicensed Hong Kong Brothels at a time.
16. With having a Chinese sister-in-law by blood or usage, who in 1856-57 was keeping Brothels.
17. With receiving the monthly rack-rentals of houses, and in particular of a Brothel standing on 11 Crown Lots, down to the present month of May.[1]
18. With having informed Mr. May, that he, Mr. Caldwell, was a member of a Secret Society.
19. With having informed Mr. May, that although he would not himself take bribes, he would not object to his wife doing so.Lastly, I subjoin the "Report" itself. For it contains the account—meagre and unsatisfactory though
- ↑ The real charge, and one which was fully proved upon them, is entirely omitted! It was, that, for months after his acceptance of the Licensership, he continued to be the registered and ostensible owner and manager, even to the payment of Crown rent for the property, on which the Brothel stood.
