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EUROPEAN WOMEN THRONG COURT AT OPENING OF PEAK MURDER TRIAL
EUROPEAN WOMEN IN CONSIDERABLE NUMBER FORMED THE MAIN GALLERY OF SPECTATORS AT THE SU- PREME COURT THIS MORNING WHEN BEFORE MR. JUS- TICE LINDSELL, ACTING CHIEF JUSTCE, IN SPECIAL CRMINAL SESSOINS, LAM CHUN, 30 YEAR-OLD COOK-.. BOY, WAS ARRAIGNED FOR THE MURDER OF MRS. SYBIL RUBY CHALLINOR, AT NO. 499, THE PEAK, ON MAY 5.
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The following jury was empanel-, some flower-pots about 15 feet below.
When European police officers led:
James Smith (foreman),
rived, they found that Dr. Durran had Trank Tok, Benny Chan, J. Nalready examined Mrs. Challinor and Nolasco da Silva, C. L. dos Santos, finding life to be extinct, had attended Wong King-sing and John person.
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Mr. John Whyatt is apprearing for the Crown, and Mr. H. C. Mac- Namara, "instructed by Mr. M. A. da Silva, is defending..
Outlinding the case for the pro secution, Mr. John Whyatt, sum marised the evidence which would
Mr. Challinor and arranged to have him sent to the War Memorial Nur- sing House.
COMPLETE DISORDER.
BLAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY be brought in the case, saying that found on the floor.
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Police found the bedroom in which the struggle had taken place in a state and of complete disorder. The floor the wells were spattered with blood and two blood stained knives were Later in the morning, the body of accused had been in the employ of Mrs. Challinor was removed to the. Mr. Challinor for some 15 months mortuary and a postmortem examina- prior to the alleged attack which tion revealed that death, in the doc- occurred in the early hours of the tor's opinion, was due to severe hae-
morrhage caused by stab wounds. morning.
One of the wounds had severed the Counsel went on to indicate that cub-clavian blood vessels and in the accused was apparently upset by opinion of the doctor, that wound alone was sufficient to cause death from circumstances in which, on the in-haemorrhage in the space of about tending departure of Mrs. Challinr two minutes. for England, and the letting of the house to new tenants, all the servants were to be retained day. by the new tenants with the excep- tion of the accused." They were bringing their own cookboy."
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When this was explained, accus- ed appeared to become depressed.
NIGHT OF MAY 4-5
Accused was confined to Queen Mary. Hospital until June 10 and he made a statement on being charged on that
ACCUSED'S STATEMENT
The statement was: "Sometimes when I did not do the work proper- ly she (deceased) blamed me. Some times she said that I was in mental trouble. She also said. I was-a leper. I did not take any notice of it. The On May 4, after certain incidents foki said that someone said that I was which only assumed importance suffering from leprosy, but I said of it. later, accused went to a clansman nothing and took no notice at No. 551, the Peak, carrying his Afterwards I asked the gardener, who clothing and other property, and said: "You are always the same and are not suffering from leprosy.* asked to be allowed to leave them Afterwards I felt that my brain was there for a few days. This was not well, and I don't remember if about 11 p.m
there was anything else. I spoke to the house coolie that both the mas- Mr. and Mrs. Challinor had re-ter and mistress said that I was suf tired at about that time or shortly fering from leprosy. They said that before. At 4: a.m. Mr. Challinor someone had told them about it. I was awakened by his wife, crying asked Ah Wah, the house coolie: 'Did out "Boy! Boy!" and would say you say that? Did you tell them so or not?' Ah Wah said: 'No, I did: that he saw prisoner standing over not tell them anything of this kind."- his wife with a knife in each hand Afterwards they, the couple, called me stabbing at her repeatedly. He in by pressing the bell, telling me {jumped out of bed and grappled not, to talk in the kitchen and said: with the accused While the strug. You go a little far away and talk to- morrow Kfternoon. After warda 7Ah gle was going on, Mrs. Challinor Wah went inside and spoke with them, collapsed and it was now know that I asked Ah Wah: What did you she died a few minutes later from speak when you went in? He said: severe hemorrhage caused by the I told them that you blamed me for saying you were suffering from severance of blood vessels. In a leprosy. "I said: 'I did not blame you. struggle lasting about 20 minutes, I simply asked you if you had spoken during which time he himself re- anything to the master about me.. ceived injuries, Mr. Challinor Ah Wah bald: The master did not disarmed the assailant, who immer Ah Wah also said that the master say you were suffering from leprosy." diately fled, TARICELA
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spoken a word in English which ~ Mr. Challinor then locked the door he did not understand. I went in of the bedroom and endeavoured to and asked the master, who said: “It summon assistance by ringing the bell would be more better if you don't and shouting. Meeting with no success, understand it. The master, further he went downstairs to the dining room', said: "If you go, away I can't find and phoned for the police and then to you.
MA The master spoken word in Dr. Durran.·
English which I didn't understand. I took it that he meant lepers': Home.. The master that I had quarrelled with "the ml
Bohe angry.
COOLIE ATTACKED
Meanwhile, the coplie, who had gone
to town, returned and was preparing someone to go to bed when he was attacked night I
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The Royal : Observatory reports with a hammer by prisoner. He suc until mit
seeded in warding of the blows with a and giddy. that a weak anti-cyclone covers, cotton quilt. The gardener was then bottle of the Pacific to the east of Japan, coolle and the gardener ran off to by a piece o
likewise attacked, after which both the jumped from sure remains low over Man wards Gough Hill Police Station. On hold of the wire
the way, they met Chinese detectives dizzy and giddy.. who were" roing to the Challinor's re-
dring (answer to the telephone my heart and did not know what had ge from Mr. Challinor, and ac- happened Afterwards. I was Informe
ed by someone that
at I had killed my them to the house.20
198 the detectives mistress, and I was very much dis- ressed.Eet enquiries be made and tion be taken in how to pass
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