Mr, Reeks then stated that the second charge had first been framed that Kelly, without making an official entry in the charge-room, had released a Chinese prisoner, Later this had been amended, when it had been found out that if was not his duty to make an entry, to a charge that he had unnecessarily detained one Chinese and had released him in;|an improper manner, Kelly then told the Court that in connection with this case the First Information Report was made out by Sub-Ins, Darters and the fact that a man had been arrested for being in possession of opium should have been entered in the report. "It was not my duty to make the entry," he went on, "About five o'clock that afternoon he found that a second man had teen arrested in connection with the case and he was about to question this man when he was ordered to complete another report. About 840 pum. he took his wife to a whist drive and a telephone message came to him that the prisoner had not been released. He thereupon went down to the charge-room and released the man with the assistance of Sub-Insp, Verhovsky, who slated that there was no entry about the man and that it was Sub-Insp, Darter's duty to make the entry, At times, he said, prisoners were released by the gateman and Mr, Verhovsky who was on charge-room düty did not know for two hours that a man was being detained. The second man, arrested on suspicion, Kelly stated, had not been blackmailed, His arrest was ro; entered in the crime diary as it was found he had no connection with the case, He admitted that his diary was wrong by about t2n minutes or so in the times but there had been no falsification of the entries.
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