In practice, Kelly told the Court, the instructions at the front of the book were not carried out. There would be no time to fill in the diary. Many detectives made out the diary in the same manner as he did. On the day in questioning he had had a olsoning and a larceny case and had visited many places which had not entered in' the diary. 'The inspector-in-charge of the C.D. at central had ticked off the entries Petitioner denied that he was trying to conceal his visit to Taku Road as hhe'had entered it in' the motor car diary. On that day he had visited three' places in connection with a poisoning ease and others.
He explained that the frst crime diary was a document prepared the detectives in the force for the Municipal Advocate with a view to prosecution when an arrest was made. In his case a secur man had been arrested in connection with the opium ease and it had been found that he had no connection with the case, therefore no entry had been made in the first crime diary. Ifa case was no particular importance a detec tive wrote the main body of the report and handled it to a Chinese clerk. fo complete for the F-LR.
Not Adhered to The practice of placing the names fof places visited in the frst crime book was not adhered to by many electives in the force. In this case he had been to Taku Road and had found nothing there to warrant a conviction of a man. Therefore, it had not been necessary to enter the visit in the book. "He had. however, placed therein a visit to Tsingkond i, off Jessfield Road when six men Were convicted in the District Court, The frst sheet of the diary, he said, had been typed by the clerk from information received from. the FAIR, The possession of two ounces opium was, however, a trivial offence. Here "he pointed out that he had been accused of making a false entry in the first crime. diary when the diary had been typed by 9 Chinese clerk who had guessed at the hour at which the case had been concluded. He admitted being, technically guilty of these wrong entries, Kelly then pointed out thata question and answer put to him had not been reported correctly, 'The question was, he said, "Did you take from two' o'clock until six {0 investi-Hale this opium possession case' and his answer had been given as "Yes," He had not replied. in thi way, but that he had released the prisoner at six o'clock and had been on other cases as well, He stated that the Of vocate had put into his mouth a certain statement at his trial, This that he had not" thought strange that all the detectives, who had gone to Taku Road, had not men= ied! that he was their actions, ise he had been' engaged for a few minutes during the day and he had also been investigating an attempted Suicide, the snatching of $1,000, a shooting on Szechuen Road Bridge and a larceny ease in Kiangsi Road.
addition there were many other cases.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.