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have tea with Wah Tsai at the James Bond Tea House at Nathan
Road! There, for the first time, Your Petitioner saw Woo
Ming Sang, the deceased, and also some policemen in plain-
clothes. Wah Tsai at that time mentioned that the deceased
was a member of the 14K Triad Society and that it was not a
good thing for a member of one triad society to owe money
to a member of another triad society. Wah Tsai and the
deceased talked about half an hour but both parties did not
seem pleased with the result. Your Petitioner did not
hear what was discussed.
9. In the early morning of the 31st day of August 1973,
Wah Tsai, Your Petitioner and about five others of Wah
Tsai's friends all went to the billiard room in Nelson
Street to play billiards. As far as Your Petitioner knows,
there was no prior arrangement that the party would go to
that billiard room and certainly no prior arrangement to
meet the said deceased there. Your Petitioner and his
friends played billiards until early morning and, because
the police question people that walk in the streets at that
late hour, the party remained in the billiard room playing,
intending to go home at day-break.
10. Suddenly Your Petitioner saw the deceased came
into the billiard room with 20 odd friends including his
wife, presumably also to play billiards. Your Petitioner
thinks that the deceased's friends were all members of the
14K Triad Society.. Wah Tsai, the Elder Brother of Your
Petitioner's triad society, undaunted by the number, again
mentioned about this $400:00. Before long a fight started
between the said deceased's gang of triads and the gang to
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