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1905/9 Rex vs. Soon Ching – keeping a gaming house (Vancouver)

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86.Q. A little later you were trying to get into a room and he came up and let you in? A. That was the first time I saw him. 87 .Q. He opened room 6 for you? A. No. 88.Q. Was it broken? A. I can't swear to that. 89.Q. You don't know whether it was opened by him or whether it was broken? A. No. 90 Q He admitted that was his bedroom? A. Yes.

CHARLES MULHERN underoath says:- (Direct examination by Farris) 91.Q. You were present at this raid? A. I was. 98.Q. Who went there first to the place? Tell us the circumstances. A. Sergeant Butler and I were the first ones that went to theplace. We went upstairs to the door at the head of the stairs and tried the door and it was locked. We then came down again and waited at the door until Sergeant Fulton came along. 95.Q. What was the date of this? A. The seventeenth I think. 94.Q. What time of the day or night? A. About 8 o'clock in the evening. 95.Q. What happened then? A. We stayed at the door for a minute or two and Sergeant Fulton and officer McDade came along. Sergeant Fulton had the warrant. So they went up and rapped at the door and then broke the door in and then we went in. When we got into room 2 from room 1, the door leading from room 2 into room 3 was locked and we broke that. 96,Q. What did you see outside of what Sergeant Fulton has said ? A. There was a lot of this stuff scattered all over. 97.Q. Did you see any money? A. I went right on through and I could not say that I seen any. Whoever had been in the room had gone out. We went through the door into room 4 and there was a rush there and McDada run down these stairs in room 4 after the Chinamen, and when I got down these stairs far enough to see into the store below I seen officer McDade with two BC Archives GR-0419 Box 106 File 1905/9 BRITISH COLUMBIA. ATTORNEY GENERAL. Attorney General documents.