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121 Q. Is that a gambling house too? A. Yes.

2 Q. You worked there sometime? A. No.

3 Q. You swear that you have never worked in a gambling joint in 540? A. Yes I can swear to that.

MR. COWAN: I want the witness to realize that I intent to come back on this. I want him to realize that our information is that he works in this gambling joint, 540 Shanghai Alley at ten dollars a week, and that he doesn’t work in a shingle mill.

COURT: Just tell him that all the answers he gives are bound by the oath that he took to tell the truth, and if a man does not tell the truth, whether he is a whiteman, a Hindoo or whatever he is, he is liable to be prosecuted for not telling the truth.

MR. RUSSELL: Now after all that has been, My Friend of course is not permitted in cross-examination – that man is not being tried for his method of life, and it is not for my friend to throw out a bluff or try to frighten him.

COURT: I suppose it is only just a warning, because the whole point that you have brought this man to identify a certain man. The question as I understand Mr. Cowan’s cross-examination is as to whether this man’s word is reliable at all. If it is unreliable then it would be a question for me to consider whether he is reliable is the other.

MR. RUSSELL: Your Worship will not enquire into that matter on a preliminary hearing.

124. Q. Now will you now swear that you don’t work and never did work in a gambling house on Shanghis Alley, 540?

MR. RUSSELL: You have got to limit the time somewhat, within a month previous to the 13th?

MR. COWAN: My Friend as Crown Prosecutor is remarkable. COURT: Just ask did he ever work there then or sometime?

5 Q. Did you ever work in Shanghai Alley? A. No.

COURT: In, what is the number of the place. Did you ever work at 540 Shanghai Alley? A. No.

MR. RUSSELL: Now would Your Worship ask him is 540 a gambling

BC Archives GR-0419 Box 193 File 1914/195 / BRITISH COLUMBIA. ATTORNEY GENERAL. / Attorney General documents.