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

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290.Q. Any (of) the games which you saw, were the chances alike favorable to all the players, or did one player have an advantage over the other? A. Equal chances. 291.Q Do you remember having a conversation with the officers that night? A. I do. 292.Q. What information did you give the officers in connexion with the club? A. The officers asked me what my occupation was and I said I was manager of the lower store. 293.Q Did you give the name of the lower store? A- I said "Kwong Tai Lung." Cross exam by Farris. 294.Q. What is the limit when they play fantan? A. A few cents. 295.Q. Did'nt you tell Sergeant Mulhern that they played for 25c? A. The limit is 25c for drinks. 296.Q. What do you mean by that? A.For liquor and wine. 297.Q. Was all that money that was found going to be used for buying wine? A. Where was the money? 298 Q. There was some four or five dollars on the table. A. I don't know where it was found. 299.Q. How often do they buy drinks when they are playing fan-tan? A- Occasionally. 300 Q.What do they do with the rest of the money? A. What money? 301.Q. That they were playing with? A. It belongs to the individual. 302.Q. They keep that? A. It must be that. 303.Q How often do they play black-jack up there? A. They have it once or twice a week, when merchants come up there more for recreation than anything else. 304.Q. (Court] What do they do with the balance of the time, if the most of the time is for recreation? A. Nothing else; they read newspapers and talk to one another. 305.Q. How many play black-Jack at a time? A. Just a few. 306.Q. Don't you know that 4 or 5 play there at a time? BC Archives GR-0419 Box 106 File 1905/9 BRITISH COLUMBIA. ATTORNEY GENERAL. Attorney General documents.