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Show EXAMINER REPORTER BROUGHT BEEORE ' COMMITTEE The last witness in the investigations investiga-tions of the police committee was an Examiner reporter who was called before the committee yesterday afternoon, after-noon, and Chairman J. C. Nye states that a report will be made tomorrow. The Examiner man stated that it had been reported that somo of the police records of 1911 were miBslng and that certain Chinese or Japanese gamblers had been arrested and only a part of their bail money returned. He said that the story brought to him was sufficient in his mind to cause him to make an investigation. The witness stated that when he first went to tho police department to see the records, he made no examination. exam-ination. He met Wardlaw at the time but was not acquainted with him. He made another trip to the police station and looked over tho 1911 memorandum mem-orandum slips. He found some of them missing and ho concluded that tho facts justified a stody. The reporter was closely questioned, question-ed, but denied that he had misplaced any of the slips and, in explanation of tho finding of slips by the committee com-mittee in tho police record book, he said that he remembered that about three slips were in the book when ho looked it over. |