THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1930.
POLICE STATION TRAGEDY.
WITNESSES ADMONISHED BY CORONER.
Threatened With Jail.
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None too Hattering remarks about two Indian witnesses were made by the Coroner, Mr. R. E. Lindsell, yesterday, afternoon at the resumed hearing of the Lok Dia Chau inquiry. To Gurbukch Singh, the station guard, on the afternoon of the tragedy (July 21): who claimed that neither the station alarm nor the shots fired by him just outside the barrack room roused the Indian Lance-Sergeant and another constable who were sleeping, the Coroner said: "You will have great difficulty in convincing the jury that that's true."
THE CHINA
And left him there?—Yes. Did you speak to B97-He could not speak.
Did he say who had shot him?-No.
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"Was In a Hurry.” Coroner: Why frd. another, two shots after the man, was out of sight? I was in a hurry!
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Indian Lance-Sergeant B349 was of shots accounted for by the the senior officer in the big bar- witness and then came back to rack room, and he ordered witness the point of the two Indians who and the other three constables in were alleged to have been still the room to man the windows, THE 14TH BI-ANNUAL RACE Replying to the Coronet, the T for Ships' Litchonts will be asleep in spite of the noise which was going on. The Coroner in witness said that the door loading salied on MONDAY, the 22nd fimated that he had pursued the to the charge room was slightly September, starting at 4 pm. same question himself and evid open so that they could see through Each Ship may enter any num- ence of the witness on that point to the charge room from where ber of boats.
COURSE: Start from Channel would have to be regarded with they were." the greatest suspicion.
further Rocks; thence to Kowloon Rock The Coroner again put the evidence, the witness said that he (P), Mark off. Yacht Club (S), who was heard several more shots fired Cust Rock Mark (P), finish across question to witness emphatic that the two men were upstairs and some outside. He did Yacht Club line West to East. asleep and that he had aroused not see Dalip Singh again.
station guard sent a telephone them.
Coroner: No one in the world message for assistance at 5.10 pm. In the case of the other Indian witness, P.C. Gurdit Singh, alie-shameful!
will believe that, a most wicked Witness did not himself
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By the Coroner: Altogether, Secretary, R.H.K.Y.C.. not later fellow villager of Dalip Singh, the "amok," Mr. Lindsell told the
than Noon on the 22nd September. man that he was lying and admonished him to be more careful, amination of the witness by witness fired 22 rounds.
Coroner:-Only--three-of-which questioning him on his relations threatening that if he told any more lies he would go straight to with Dalip Singh. He had no were at a visible target?-Yes.
What made you fire the other jail! Finally the Coroner gave up the examination of this witnessiden, witness said, if Dalip Singh in disgust, remarking to Mr. T. II. King that the witness presented had anything on his mind that would account for his actions, a pitiful.picture. The failure of the other Indians at the sta- No reason occurred to him why tion to remove the Lewis gun from the charge room at the start of he should shoot either while the the trouble was also commented on by the Coroner, who remarked ring was going on or after it that it was hardly to the men's credit, .
"I WONDER, I WONDER!"
He had discussed the affair with the other Indians at the station but no 'reasons were advanced for his, act.
In a further examination the Coroner asked witness.
Could Dalip Singh assemble and use a Lewis gun?--No.
Was he learning?—Yes.
the charge room.
go into
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17 shots-We fired whenever we heard firing upstairs.
Addressing Mr. King, the Coroner remarked: "He presents rather pitiful picture, I am afraid?"
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Mr. King: I agree with you! Mr. King then assumed the examination of the witness and
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asked him why he had waited to COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED
put on his boots, and witness re plied: "As a' safeguard!"
Coroner: Against what, bullets? That is our order.
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Mr. King: You started to put Co.), annual dinner and dance, on your boots before you heard the Club de Recreio, Kowloon.
Another Constable's Story. On the resumption of the the intention to call every man
Gurdit Singh, P.C.. B553, of alarm?-Yes, because I heard inquiry the Coroner questioned connected with this case or who
Gurbukch will be called?
five years' service said that al-firing. the Station Guard.
Coroner: Mr. Wolfe himself is though he came from the samo Coroner: You say it is part of Singh (Indian constable B722).
Coroner: When you ran giving evidence which will in-village as Dalip Singh and had your instructions to put on your through the compound where elude the history of B543, other-been recruited at the same time, boots first? Yes.
wise the Police have supplied me they were not close friends. Ha was your revolver? -Witness: It was in my right with a list of 26 witnesses. the had never heard him voice any hand.
evidence of whom will throw all grievance or grudge against the The Chinese "boy" said it was the material light it is possible to officer in charge. He was off duty in your holatur; it was not in throw on this tragedy. If there on the afternoon of July 21 and your right hand at all. Do you are witnesses whom you think fat 3.30 p.m. was taking ten under near the gate of the disagree with that?-His version should be called first it can be the trees is not true.
arranged.
compound with Dalip Singh, B315 Inspector and. B722. The four of them had a game of cards. At 4 p.m. B722 went on station 'guard and the others went inside the station He stayed under the trees clean- ing his rifle on his own.
minutes!
Coroner: I wonder. I wonder? Then you still say, do you, in spite of the fact that the alarm was going for some when you fired seven shots inside the station, that the two officers in the Barrack room asleep when you went into the Barrack room? Do you still say that?- aroused them.
Foreman: Will Brennan be called?
Coroner: Yes...
Mr. King's Position.
Lindsell:
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Mr. King confirmed this; saying that the order was first to put on boots and then to get rifles.
Answering Mr. King. witness said that it was after he had put on his boots that the alarm went. He did not say anything to the
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Witness was the vin Negapatam (Hakone Maru), he went past.
(Kame Foreman: Mr. King's position
first to enter the big barrack room. from Europe via Siberia
Coroner: As you ran through Maru); Outward for Europe via in this inquiry is to bring out the
Mr. were still fucts and not to inquire into the
The station the passage did you see anything? Siberia (Hakone Maru), 5.80 p.m.
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To-morrow-At Sales Room, Dud- Coroner: Certainly not to in with you?I was on my own. quire into the conduct of the One of you is lying. I am tell-switch on the alarm. I was right | dell Strcot, household furniture, In spite of the fact that the alarm Police at all. He is here to eliciting the truth. I was alone under on his heels.
Continuing, witness said that the tree when I heard the first was going all the time and you the true facts,
August 25-26-At 3 and 4 The after switching on the alarm, the Albany, household furniture, 10.30 fired seven shots you still suy The Coroner added that Mr. shot. that?--I am telling what I saw King was present to assist the Coroner: With your rifle?-station guard went into the big am.
barrack room and froused Lance- and did.
August 27-At Godown 18, H.K. Court and fury as he had all the No, I had put it back in my room
€349 Sergeant
and the other & K. Wharf This at 4.45. The first, shot was about You still say that!. The alarma facts at his finger tips.
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Kowloon, miscellaneous. goods, 3.1. didn't wake them up and your was in reply to a suggestion by p.m. and came from the direc shots did not wake them up? the Foreman that Mr. King's position of the front of the station
steam crane, 10.30 a.m. "Seagull." locomotive boiler, and You had to wake them up your- tion is defensive.
Ithought it was the report of o self? Yes, I woke them up. Questioning the witness, the sporting gun and remained under
Corner: You will have great Foreman asked: Had he (wit the trees. difficulty in convincing the juryuess) any instructions in the case that that's true.
of emergency?
Coroner: Other than what he shots fired upstairs? Yes, has already stated?
Did you at any time hear any
heard shots when I was arousing the Sergeant and the other Indian constable.
How many shots? Two or three shots.
Only two or three? Yes. Evidence of the bullet marks
Foreman: Yes. Witness: No other instruc- tions.
mentioned?No.
Coroner: You can't distinguish the crack of a rifle from 'the re port of a sporting gun-after five years in the police force? They
are the same.
path and the third shot followed.
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station guard) in the big, harrack Mr. King: Was B722 (the room when you fired your first five
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shota-No.
Coroner: He went out again?-
Yes.
him? Yes.
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Fired at Dalip Singh. true, after the station guard had "Mr. King: If what you say is
aroused the others Dalip Singh They are entirely different. Gurdit Singh continued that was still outside and you fired at Coroner: You have no other in- after the second shot he saw When the question was put structions beyond those you have Sergt. Madgwick coming up the again by Mr. King to make abso-
Tokyo, Yesterday, Six Japanese mountain clim- tions to blow a Police whistle was wrong until he saw Sergt. and B722 roused the others simul-ished in a violent eruption of the
Foreman: Has he any instruc- He did not realise that anythingutely sure on that point, the wit-
ness said: "I fired the five shots bers, including two women, per- shots fired?—I cannot. recollect. if he sees anything dangerous Madgwick run into the Married taneously"
volcano You still say, two or three happening? Where there's an Quarters.
Asama, north-west of Coroner: Did you look to see when all
Coroner: The fact remains that Tokyo, at 8.30 this morning, when only? May be more than that; alarm, bell we have to use the
were aroused 8548 strong earthquake shocks who was firing?-No.
(Dalip Singh) had not entered the felt in the surrounding region. When you went on duty at
compound yet?—Yes,
The victims were caught in the lava flow, 2,000 feet below the crater-Renter.
alone shows that there were six
I cannot exactly recollect,
There is evidence from one, at any rate, a Chinese witness, that Dalip Singh entered the station by the way which you entered it and went upstairs from the inside stairs? I saw him going up the stairs in the compound.
You say you did not enter the station through the back door and go up the back stairs?-He did not go in that door..
alarm,
"Simply Bolted."
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4 o'clock did you know that both You simply bolted? Yes European sergeants were out of ran across the compound into the the station?-I didn't know about barrack room
and heard many the other Sergeant,
more shots. You
Further questioned by Mr. King witness said that they had had practice alarms at the station 'and it was his duty to go to the ground
Coroner:
knew at Could you say whether they floor verandah outside the charge 4 o'clock that the officer in charge were revolver or rifle shots-room with his rifle..
were
when Dalip Singh entered the charge room to get the Lewis gun.
was out but what about the river can distinguish the sound but was Coroner: You admit that you officer, did you know he was in too much of a hurry to do so did not go to your post? Yes. It would appear at present, that it out?-I knew that the other off-then. cer was out..
went there later.
Why? When firing is going on What do you mean later?--I did And yet the Chinese "boy" saw
You did know. Why not say one is apt to get into a panic.
not go. I could see from the posi- him go through that door?-No, "yes" then? Yes.
Continuing his evidence, Gurdittion in which I was. he went up the other stairs.
Well, why don't you say so at Singh said he did not see anyone By Mr. King: Witness did not Coroner: Mr. King, anything once instead of prevaricating? coms past his door except the see the station guard fire any further?
Foreman; In the absence of station guard, B722. He had a re-shots.,.
Mr. King: Would your Worship the two European Sergeants who volver in his right hand. Witness By the Coroner. He heard- put this further question: In was your senior officer? The saw Dalip Singh go into the several shots in the passage out- practice alarms what's his assign-senior in the station? The senior station by the back door and no side. These were at the same time ed position? What assigned | sergeant among the Indians. one else..
as witness was firing.. position has he in practice Coroner: Was he in command Coroner: Not even a Chinese or Coroner: At the same time as alarms? My duty is to lock up of the Station?—Yes,
anybody?-No.
you were firing at the man out- the doors and grilles and fall in Continuing the witness intimat- Witness said that he then ran side? What lies are these? He in the charge room.
ed that he later reported what through the passage to the big fired after the others had been was occurring at the Station.. Indian barrack room which he "en aroused.
Foreman: When you reported tered by the door by the charge to him did he tell you he would room. As he came out of his room
Coroner: That's your duty as
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was after he had gone up and mur. dered Mrs. Madgwick that he re turned downstairs and got the Lewis gun. That was hardly to the credit of the other four xen. They should have gone in and re- moved the gun.
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In Case of Emergency. whose duty, it was to move the The Foreman of the Jury, asked
Lewis gun in cases of emergency. Mr. King replied that there were four in the team and after lar duty he was to join the testn each had carried out his particu
in the charge room.
The Foreman: How long were
etation guard?-Yes,
Did. Not Obey Order..
Coroner: Be more careful.
go
If you in the barrack room before the station guard arrived 7-About two Beconds.
tions.
On your own evidence it is clear take charge or did he thke he had a clear view of the com- I catch you lying again you that you didn't fall in in the charge? Yes, he took charge pound and saw no one there. He straight to jail!.. charge room?As I could see the then and we obeyed his instruc-did not see Chajja Singh or Dalip Questioned by Mr. King, witness Were the other constable 'and charge room door.
Singh there. Later he saw Dalip said he fired the other seventeer Sergeant in the barrack room You didn't go into the charge What instructions did he givo Singh through a window of the big shots when it was still light asleep when you went in? Yes. room; none of you did 2-No. you? He instructed me to send barrack room. This was the win- When he fired the outer wooden The Foreman: My recollection Mr. King: One other thing a telephone message and when I dow nearest to the kitchen.. shutters were open; They had is that some, skots were fired your Worship. Assuming that failed to get through then he Dalip Singh was then running been open, all the time. through the wooden shutters of the he (witness) was not station himself went to telephone, towards the back of the station. Coroner: I gather that at no barrack room. guard but off duty in the station Did you tell the sergeant that When witness first saw him he was time you saw E648 (Dallp Singh) Mr. King: I agree with the and the, alarm bell rung to what B9 was lying wounded in the at the top of the slope leading in the passage by the charge room Foreman's recollection. That was position would he go then? compound when you reported to from the station, four or five yards or in the charge room-No. why I put the question to wittcss.
Witness: In that case I would him?—Yea,
from the south-west corner of the The Coroner addressing Mr. The window was on the west sidð. have taken the Lewis gun and Left Comrade Where He Fellatation
~ King, said that he would like to The Coroner (to witness); How gone upstairs and takяn up my And you state in your evidence Coroner: He was running to know If any evidence was belag do you account for the fact that stand on the front verandah. **** that you closed the door of the ward the compound gate Yes, produced by the Police to show there were bullet holes in the You are one of the Lewis gun barrack room nearest to the He had a rifle which was held at that when the rescue party entered shutters on the west side?They team, aren't you?—Yes.
kitchen?--Yes the ready the Station, the charge room door were half-open. * When arted, if the jury wished And you later found 20 lying Proceeding, witness said that he was opener
The Foreman: You saw B548 to put any questions to the wit inside the door nearest to the saw Dalip glogh fire two shots in Mr. King said he would go into (Dalip Singh) through the ginse -ness; the foreman (Mr A. I kitchen? Yes, at 6.30 when the direction of the Indian Marri the matter. He understood from window and through the partly Shields) Bald: Before putting any saw him he was still lying therded Quarters. Witness fred five Mr. Murphy that as far as the lat open slutters? Is that correct?-- questions to this witness we –Did you do anything to assist shots at him with his rifle. · Thres, ter, could recollect, it was open.
Loa "should like to know how this case him 7-1 simply poured some shots were fired while Dalip Singh Mr. Lindsell said they had not The enquiry was adjourned untli Is going to be conducted. Is it water into his mouth.
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