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Continuing his cross-examination, Mr. Brutton said, "When did you go to Shanghai -Ia 1087 or 1028.
And did you have employment in Shanghai-Yes,
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In 1027, wore you employed in Shanghai -Zimmern answered that he had already said he was not suro whether he went to Shanghai in 1927 or 1928 but that his first job was with the Shanghai Docks where ho! stayed for about six month.
So that your real object "waş simply to make money - you like to put it that way.
up that suggestion of poison made no suggestion as to the poison.
You fell in with Christie's su gestion I was just lying in the
bed.
I say that it was your and Chris tie's business to keep Cheng intor ested in that poison business, other.
He gave you a wink and you wise you would not get your monoy? immediately shut up because you "HaYes, we could. Cheng told Chris-realised that Christie had wave
why not use a gun? tie that poison was not good enough, scheme to get money out of Cheng," -I did not understand what it
"Find Me a Dagger.". You said in your evidence: and I will go to the Nathua Hotel said: Find mo a dagger or a knife
and have it out With Fung You that was spoken, in Chinese,
You maintain that is quite true although he could get a knife in his own house That is not up to ine to know,
You know every kitchen has a knife --I won't deny that.
You also told the Court that the next day he went to the Nathan Hotel ?-Yes.
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And where did you go Ofco Appliances, Ltd.
Without a dagger or a knife i-- Eow long did you hold that Yes, he said so. job"-About the same time,
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That brings us to 1028.. said that I do not know when I went to Shanghai.
All right then, what about 1029—to his visit
How to Get a Gun,
Where you prepared to
use
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meant.
Are you so dumb as all that
gun-He did not ask me to use a There might have been' some meats
ing to it.
guni.
Ware you prepared to use a gun? -I don't we the reason why I should.
Were you prepared to use it? - I don't see why I should ane it, He asked, Christie.
Chance of Making Money,
And you ascertained afterwards that the meaning, of that was that thoro was a chance to get $10,000 out of Cheng 1-When wo were alone I found thars was a chance of mak- ing money.
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fore he came That is quite trus.
Not a good hout te koop his goats: waiting-We waited outside. He told me to go first, because ha oculd had lost and wanted to play again." not Anish his game of snooker. He I only fallowed his hatructions. 1 had to wait for him to go; other- dinner! wise who was going to pay for the
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So you and Christie followed | |RAND EXPERTS – WORK. GUARANTEED
that up -Yes.
And Christie was not prepared to ¡use a gun-I would like to think
This dinner at the restaurant; f that question over.
did you borrow the money to pay Woll7-Christie made inquiries as for it-Cheng gave me the money.
And you still maintain that that conversation took place between you Which conversation?
to how he could get a gun.
When was that At the Nathan What Cheng told you with rogard Hotel on the night of the dimor, I joined Harvey Cock, & Co. That He told me that
the Nathan Hotel-after the unsuccessful episode of
beasing up Fung. might have been in 1930.
You had to devise other means Then in 1929, where were you -I had visited the Nathan Hotel
Told you what He told me hoof getting the money out of Cheng
That is not true.. had been working.
I am asking you to remember
What actually was said was to
and Christie said, Give me 810,000 and I will kill anybody.' That started the whole thing
Wathen indghed,
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to pay for it.
Which means that you borrowed the money to pay for it-No one would believe that. I can't afford the money to pay for it.
You sat at the place of the host at the dinner 7-Yes, I did.
Your dinner -No, 1 asked Cheng's permission to give me the
I wanted to save my face.
Witness added that he was not what you told the Court he said the effect that the thing had failed place as my girl was coming, and sure but he thought he arrived in Do you still adhere to that state- Shanghai about the middle of 1928. i mont -That is what I heard from
Out of Work in Shanghai.
might have been out of job for
Where were you in 1029 th
while.
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How Jong About a couple
of
months.
Where did you go then
think
I joined the Canidrome.
And what about the job with Harvey Cook & Co.---I joined that Hometime in 1930.
I suppose your name appears in the directory. If you worked for long period.
NO.
If you were a resident in Shang-
Thim
Can you give any reason why he happened I don't know. should say that if it had never
Ha anys he never had that con- versation with you at all? He won't dare to deny it.
He does deny it and Lai Ming Fai denies it. Have, you read the paporal-Wo were not allowed to read the papers on the day of the
case.
You say you were not allowed to road the papers where you were detained. Didn't you dine in the officers' room That is an allega tion.
only stayed in the gymnasium as a What about the gymnasium -We sort of general exercise.
Billiards During Detention. Don't You Use the billiard hai your name, appears, or if you room Permission had to be ob are working for a firm I supposetained before we enn get into it.
Did you get general permissiou to use it-Only during certain Witness added that he left Har-hours when no one was there. rey Cook & Co. for the first time in 1930. He joined them again later and it was when he left them in 1931 that he joined Whitson's.
Witness was asked further ques- tions with regard to his various jobs. in Shanghai and he mentioned that at one time he was a salesman with Messrs. Surrey & Co. He stayed with them a few months and then rajoined Harvey Cook's. He thought! this was in 1931.
Mr. Brutton: You may laugh, bus other people "may be able to tell what happened just as you do
They may
And certainly far better than you
cun from what I have seen of you 80 fa. Did Christie say he pro- ferred poison-Not to the best of my récollection.
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It was your-mggestion that, Jed to the dinner being held at all?~ It was never my suggestion.
Again it is your word against thei other man. Only one other man and yourself enn speak to the truth of this: that is Cheng and your
self
When Chrissie rang me up
I don't care what you told Chris- tie. As to who suggested the dinner, it lies between you and Cheng-Cheng suggested the din- ner.
Ho may have said sol-I don't remember it.
As a matter of fact Cheng did Christie's reputation is not very not want to go to the dinner.” You arranged the dinner at 8 o'clock good 1-I don't know,
You have known him for four or and he did not turn up until 46 five years, and lived with him and and you had to telephone him be absent from the house-He lived you knew on some occasions. he was i
with mo for a while and with other people for a while. When he lived' with me he was always a good boy.
"Dear Innocant Boys." What you are trying to make out is this: that you, dear little in- nocent boy, and Christie are both dear little innocent boys and the villain of the whole play is Cheng 1,
No
What are you trying to make out i
When you were freo I suppose you used to see Christie practically-Cheng offered Christie 810,000 to. every day -Yes, of course,
do the job.
And Christie was out of a job ?—- He had a job
dinner I am not sure of that.
Had he a job at the date of that
Where did he have a job-He works as a mechanic in a motor-ear repair shop.
You know Cheng as a wealthy man knew him to be a rich
Mr. Brutton: You will admit man. that your memory as to your move- And that is why you wanted to ments in Shanghai and as to your go into his service or get a job connection with various firms are in his service I didn't want to rather vague I am answering work for him, questions to the best of my ability.
How is it that your nums does not appear in the Shanghai Directory
That I don't know.
You didn't want to work for him I didn't hope to work for him.
When He, offered you work with him, you jumped at it-Half a
Your name never appeared under Harvey Cook & Co., or under Whitloaf is better than none (Laughter.) son's If you work for a firm for a long time, your name must ap-
perr.
A. Rolling Stone.
So you wore rather a rolling stone --If you like to call it that
You never held a job for any length of time-That is my busi-
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A man of your experience is not satisfied with $40 a month and your board and lodging -I think if you were out of a job you would be satisfied.
Were you entisfied'?—Yea.
Did not hope to make mors -Well, if you have chance, why not?
any
the;
Did not mind making it out of
Well, it depends.
Magistrate: Answer the question.him Witness: I have never held a job for any length of time.
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Mr. Brutton: And you can't give us any better details as to the period or length of your employment. I have answered to the best of my ability,
It is a question of memory,isq't it I don't know.
Is it that your memory fails or that you never were in these firms -You can and it out for yourself.
I have scorched and I can's find out. You don't agree with mo that it is a question of memory as to your life in Shanghai. The times, periods and so on; you can't give the Court any better idea than you have done I give them to the best of my ability.
You don't admit it is a question of memory -- remember as best I
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About Christie, did you know Christie in Shanghai I have known him a long time. He stop- ped with me in Shanghai,
When did ho como to "Hong. Kong-A few months before I did. Lid he live with you in Hong Kong 1-On different occasions.
Do you seriously want the Court to believe that on March 18 Cheng wanted you to get him a dagger or a knife-I can swear that.
And at the time, do you say he was on his way to 50 Village Road -Ho wont there with me.
He asked you if you sculd get him a dagger or a knife
You looked upon him as a man whom you might "pluck "-I don't understand the word.
As a man from whom you might make money -Not at that moment. That intention of making money out of him came later -Yes.
And whother you made it by blackmail or fraudulent means, you. did not mind so long as you made it I think of the best plan of
course,
The Poison Bchome.
Do the job. That is the way you pubát-Well that was put forward. to him.
And Christie, you know Christie's reputation -I don't knowi
It was in your interest to keep' Cheng interested in this poison plot, otherwise you wouldn't get the $10,000 1-But we found out later that there were other people in it.
Don't make rash statements and statements which are absolutely untrue-Ask Cheng if he had other people shadowing Füng.
I will take you on on that. Did you know the number of Fung's room You have stated, I have got the wrong room and you snid Cheng could not tell you whether it was the fourth or sith Bour. If he had people shadowing the" man he could tell you exactly the number of the room and the door it was on-I don't remember telling you that. I jaid I couldn't» re- member whether Cheng said it was the fourth floor or the fifth floor,
I. Cheng bad people abudowing this man, how is it you went inlä the wrong room --That is not sur prising.
Were you so drunk that you could not recollect what was happening - was not drunk. I was happy and marry.
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So happy and merry that you started to make suggestions to the accused -No.
I put it to you that all he wanted to do was for you people to holl' Fung so that he could slap. Fung in front of Lai Ming Bai. in order to save his face. Yes.
Plot That Failed.
That was all that was in his mind-When the plot failed he had some other purpose on his mind.
And the best plan you could devise was to lend him, off to the belief that you and Christie were prepared to poison Fungt-I did not mention the poisoning at all.
You had some other purpose, not he I beg your pardon. Will you, please answer the ques-All he wanted to do was merely Lion --I did not for a moment try to slap Fung in the face in front to lead him on to believe that. At of Lai Ming Fail-That was at the
lenst not me.
Well, did Christie 1-That you better ask him.
Did Christie I cannot read his mind.
Did Christie --Christie made a suggestion to me.
And the gestion was that you should make money out of Cheng He was interested in the poison
It was Christie who suggested the poison --Yes....
And it was your and Chritje's idea to lend him on and on We did not try to lead him on.
How were you going to get your money: Christie wanted to fore Yes. warn Fung Christie suggested Hasn't he got knives in his own that to me house 7-Every cook or kitchen has a knife, hasn't it-Yes, I quite Egres, but it may not have the kind of knife he wanted.
Did he tell you the kind of knife he wanted -I can tell you what
he said in Chines if you like.
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dinner he maid that,
That was what was in his mind and that was all that you wont to the Hotel with the intention of doing Yes,
And do you mean to say that the fact he enddenly age do terribly because he failed to alap him in vindictive that he suddenly offered 810,000 and have him murdered 1 Is that your story-He did not immediately offer the $70,000.
came from you and Christie. In I say to you that the suggestion
fact you told us that Christie gav a wink and you were startled- Yes, I was.
You did not know what Christic When was that suggestion made to part with 810,000 I coul
had up his sleeve to induce Chena to yout-When we went to are the not read his mind. lawyer
You fell in with it-There must- You mean to say that you and have been some meaning: to that Christie had not discussed the mat winke ter as all 7-We could because Cheng was preser
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