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FURTHER HEARING. Further evidence was heard yester day against the three men who are charged with armed robbery at No
UD Canton Rond, second Boor, on the goth December, Inst.
Going into the box, Inspector T.
THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1924,
wounding him in the loft side. ROUND TOWER MOAT.
Aftor this witness lost sight of the
Restoration of Charac. toristics.
fortross.
werd
men, and heard slots fired. Witness thon enlled Sergt. Kolly, who came down, and they entered the floor to
The Round Towar mound and gether. They found & number of the inmates still led up He took moat at Windsor Castle hava, on guard at the door, while the Ser the advice of ominent archaeolo- grant was told to search for the man gists, just been restored to their Aoriginal character, as boing more who had come to the door. snall boy then made a report tin kooping with the historic Murphy said that he was in the witness, and going to the verandah dignity of the tower as a medioval charge room of the new Yaumati
he found the first defendant stand- The work was started some Police Station on the morning in
inge with his hands up. The mun three months ago. The overgrown question, when he recčived a report
wannarelied, but nothing was shrubbery, on the mound was to the offert that there were
fout on him An automatic pistol | uprooted, and cleared robbers operating no the above
and a le dagger were found within inequalities of surface address.
He went with Hergeant easy reach of anyone sleeping en smoothed, and the whole of the
to Kelly and a Chinese delective the bed on the verandah. The man this process it was found that lowor slopa was turfed. During the scene. Other delectives were
was arrested and taken to the immedintoly bolow the surface of picked up on the way Arriving at police station, where he was again the ground was a brick military the place he posted two men inside
searched. On his person was revetment of great thickness, the entrance of the first floor. Be
gold watch chain and some money, which must have been constructed then went up to the seeund floor
and in his breast pasekot a cigarette many years ago for the support with Sergh: Kelly, and peered in
box containing ten rounda of the sloping earthwork. The through the cracks of the duoraansition was found." Two
rose borders and flower beds in Ple Seigeant was sent with another
the moat itself have also born volvers were handed to witness taleared away, and the surface Gletrefiyn u49) to the thirst flye
the station, on of which
prepared for grass. Ilansöng. Witness then returned to
amition ätted. the first fase and found Sergt. Feaster He descended to the street for reinforcements, sune whom he posted behind the pillars on the pavement, and some in the In ni the lack of the house. He went back to the second flour and ported himself inside the entrance of No. 2007, which is inmediately opposite the door of, No, gaur After waiting for a little while, ie blow his police whistle. The clove of No. 2001 then opened and two men came unt. The first man he rognised as the third defendant, but the second man
was not in court. They came towards him and commenced to go down the stairs Immediately after them came two other gen. whom he identified as
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DIAN mat in court. and the second defendant respectively. They also rande for the stairs, None of them had anything in their hunts
One of
loaded
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the
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Dumdum Hullets.
the nvolvera ics five chambers with Winchester ammunition, with the heads eat. Two cartridges appear ed to have been struck by the hammer of the revolver, but had misfired. The 48 rounds were in adjacent chambers. When witness years reached the station he found one of the men and Sergl. Robertson in the wanbulauer.
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Sergt. Fender testified that when the report was received hars. pro ceciled to the scene of action. He went up to the first floor and found the door op He went in and Font Chinese constable already there. A little after be left Inspector Murphy, whom he tuet on the landing, he heard a polies whistle and flen he blew his own Not long after, he saw two
on to the landing und com menco to go down the stairs. He The Shooting.
henril a voice say "Don't hove," The Erst defendust. BAN немере followed by a shot. He also called to the day, Book oat "Don't mov" and fired at the ont. and then. turn back again, two men, one of whom collapsed Sergt. Kelly was heard to shout
on the stairs. The other tried -"Dict mave” ju Chinese, and thou rush past and he then fired at him. a slot rang out. The last two men At the same time a the uan then sprang forwars, and witness cullused lie Iurelf was wounded Jired al the seed defendant, in the art. He then went down
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ngo he did, perhaps, moro than any of hin pro- decessors to carry out this idea. I must have been a gardon as early as the first decades of the | 15th contury, for it was here that James J. of Scotland, the post King, who spent some of the years of his captivity at Windsor, in romantic fashion fell in love with Lady Jane Beaufort, whom he ofton saw walking in the mont gardon below his prison window. His poem entitled "The King's Quair," in which his love for Lady Jane forms the loading theme, contains also a description of the garden beneath the Castle walls.
stairs and his revolver fell from his land on the pavement. Think ing that he was of no more use he went back to the polien station. As he was crossing Konsu Street | he heard whistles and shots.
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