1912/24 Rex vs. Ah Tom – keeping a disorderly house
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I further searched and found the receptacles produced all of which contained opium, some has been prepared and some has not. (Receptacles container opium marked Exhibit “A”) (The pipe and smoking paraphernalia is marked Exhibit B) | I further searched and found the receptacles produced all of which contained opium, some has been prepared and some has not. (Receptacles container opium marked Exhibit “A”) (The pipe and smoking paraphernalia is marked Exhibit B) | ||
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CITY OF KAMLOOPS
POLICE COURT.
His Worship Mayor J.T. Robinson
A.D. MacIntyre appeared for the Defendant.
Ah Tom (Chinaman)
Charged with :- For that he at the City of Kamloops in the County of Yale, on the 8th day of February inst[?] did unlawfully keep a disorderly house, TO WIT, an Opium Joint, at 262, Main Street in the City of Kamloops aforesaid, contrary to the form of the Statute in such case made and provided.
GEORGE ROTHNIE, sworn saith :-
On the 8th of the present month I obtained an order from His Worship Mayor J.T. Robinson to search the house occupied by Ah Tom, in Main Street Kamloops for the purpose of searching for devices or apparatus for preparing for the smoking Opium, or for the talking of opium.
I visited this house in the company with Sergeant Notley and Constable McDonald and found the Defendant Ah Tom lying on a bench there and smoking the pipe produced, which is a pipe for smoking opium. He was in the act of smoking it.
I further searched and found the receptacles produced all of which contained opium, some has been prepared and some has not. (Receptacles container opium marked Exhibit “A”) (The pipe and smoking paraphernalia is marked Exhibit B)
BC Archives GR-0419 Box 155 File 1912/24 / BRITISH COLUMBIA. ATTORNEY GENERAL. / Attorney General documents.