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1895/82 Regina vs. Foung Due, alias Mon Kee – perjury (a market gardener, sending money home)

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Exhibit "D." ( C o p y )

Small Debts Court of Victoria, holden at Victoria.

Fun Quock v. Foung Due, judgement summons 176.100.

FOUNG DUE, Judgment debtor, sworn in :-

I work in garden at Mr. D. R. Harris'; have worked there for more than five years and have always got as wages $25.00 per month and board and lodging; I was married nine years ago in China and stayed there three years; on my return to this country I left my wife and two children in China; I send $15. every month to my mother in China for her support and that of my wife and children; I have done so ever since I went to work at Mr. Harris'; I sent the last $15. on Thursday, 19th Sept. ult.; I have the $15. on that day to Ah Gaw, Cook at Mr. Hamley's to send it to Lai Hop Yune at Hong Kong for my mother; I have been giving him the money regularly every month for a year past to send to Hong Kong; I have never taken a receipt from him; I spend about $20. for clothing and $12. for boots per year; I spend $2. per month in tobacco; I gave $10. this year to celebrate at graveyards; all the rest of my money I spent in food and other things; I have no money now only two bits; I got my wages last - $25. - on Tuesday, 24th September; of this I gave $15. to Ah Gaw last Sunday; I paid $7.50 for clothes to Sam Kee, Government Street, on Saturday last and the rest I spend for pleasure; since I married I have never saved any money, nor had any money in a bank in my own name or any other name; I have never kept money for any person except Fun Que, who gave me about 20 months ago $200.00 to keep for him, which I kept in my room for two weeks and then returned to