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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1930.
THE LOK MA CHẦU TRAGEDY.,
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CORONER. CONDEMNS. P.C.'S CONDUCT.
“A PITIFUL PICTURE!"
any questions to this witness we
ahould like to know how this case is going to be conducted. Is it the intention to call every man con- nected with this case, or who will be called?
How Do You Sit In A Chair?
Bolt upright or at your ease.
You probably wonder what there is in this. But the position. which people adopt when sitting. is often an indication of the state of their health.
of
The Coroner: Mr. Wolfe him- self is giving evidence which will include the history of B543, other wise the Police have supplied me
You have observed the tense. with a list of 20 witnesses, the bolt-upright position some evidence of whom will throw all the material light it is possible to people even when occupying the Further evidence, taken yester-throw on this tragedy. If there most luxuriously upholstered day afternoon on the resumption | are
think chair, witnesses whom you
Sure sign of. nervous of the enquiry into the Lok Ma should be called first, it can be tension!. They have never learnt Chau Police tragedy, disclosed dis-
arranged. organisation on the part of the Indian force at the outset of the trouble.
Brennan be called?
The Foreman: Will Jaspector
The Coroner: Yes. On the resumption of the in- quiry the
The Foreman: Mr. King's pusi Coroner questioned Gurbakch Singh, Indian constabletion in this inquiry is to bring cut No. 722.
the facts and not to inquire into the conduct of the Police?
ran
The Coroner: When you through the compound, where was your revolver?
Witness: It was in my right
hand.
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The Chinese "boy" said it was in your holster; it was not in your right hand at all. Do you dis- agree with that?-His version is
not true.
The Coroner: I wonder, I won- der.
The Coroner: Certainly not to inquire into the conduct of the Police at all. He is here to elicit
the true facts.
to relax and rest properly and consequently they belong to the legions of nervy men and women.
Then there is the type of person who collapses into a chair as if quite exhausted. He lolls back. with shoulders hunched and sunken chest, as though he never intended to get up again. Indeed, he does not appear to have enough. energy to do anything but loll In reply to a further question about in easy chairs. This man King is obviously debilitated, and, like the Coroner said that Mr. was present to assist the Court the nervy person, his trouble i
Both and jury as he had all the facts due to impoverished blood. a: his finger tips.
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Questioning the witness, the foreman asked: Had he wit ness) any instructions in саче of emergency. he has already stated?
The Coroner: Other than what Among these are neurasthenin, ex- haustion, indigestion, rheumatism The Foreman:
and general weakness. But all Witness: No.
instruc-conditions of anaemia, whether slight or serious give way before
Yes.
other
Then you still
say, do you, despite the fact that the alarm was going for some minutes when you fired seven shots inside the Station, that the two officers in the Barrack room were still asleeptions. when you went into the Barrock The Coroner: You have no the world famous blood and nerve room? Do you still say that?other instructions beyond those aroused them.
Despite the fact that the alarm was going all the time and you Bred seven shots you still say that I am telling what I saw
and did.
You still say that! The alarm didn't wake them up and your shots did not wake them up? You had to wake them up yourself?— Yes, I woke them up.
The Coroner: You will
have great difficulty in convincing the jury that that's true.
you have mentioned 7-No.
The Foreman: Han he any ins- tructions to blow a police whistle if he sees anything dangerous happening? Where
there's an alarm bell we have, to иве the alarm.
Warned for Prevaricaling, When you went on duty at 4 o'clock did you know that both European sergeants were out of the station?-I didn't know about
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suspicion. to be regarded with the greatest
the other sergeant.
The Coroner again put the ques- The Coroner: You knew at 4tion to witness who was emphatic Io'clock that the officer in charge that the two men were asleep and
was out but what about the river that he had aroused them. officer did you know he was out? I knew that the other officer was out.
Did you at any time hear any shots fired upstairs?—Yes, 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 alone shows that there were six shots fired?--I cannot recollect.
Entrance of Dalip Singh. You still say two or three only? -May be more than that; I cannot exactly recollect.
You did know? Why not say "yes" then? Yes.
Well why don't you say sO at once instead of prevaricating?
The Foreman: In the absence of the two European Sergeants, senior officer in the station-The who was your senior officer? The senior sergeant among the Indians. The Coroner: Was he in com- mand of the Station 7-Yes,
Continuing the witness intima- Dallp Singh entered the station by ted that he had reported to the the way which you entered it and Indian Sergeant what was occur- went upstairs from the insidering at the Station. stairs?I saw him going up the
There is evidence from one, at any rate, Chinese witness that
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You say he did not enter the station through the back door and go up the back stairs?-He did noto in that door.
And yet the Chinese "boy" saw him go througn that door?-No, he went up the other stairs.
The Coroner: Mr. King, any thing further?
Mr. King: Would your Worship put this further question: In practice alarms, what is his as Bigned position? What assigned position has he in practice alarms? -My duty is to lock up the doors and grilles and fall in in the charge, room.
The Coroner: That's your duty as station guard?--Yes.'
The Foreman: When you re- ported to him, did he tell you he would take charge or did he take charge? Yes, he took charge then, and we obeyed his instruc-
tions.
The Coroner: No one in the world will believe that a most wicked lie-shameful.
Mr. Shielda concluded his ex- amination of the witness by ques- tioning him on his relations with Dalip Singh. He had no idea. witness said, if Dalin Singh had
son occurred to him why he should anything in his mind that would account for his actions. No rea- shoot either while the firing was going on or after it. He had dis. used the affair with the other indians at the station but no rea-
sona were advanced for his act.
the In a further examination. Coroner asked witness: Could Dalin Singh assemble and use a Lewis gun?-No.
Was he learning?—Yes.
A Game of Cards. Gurdit Singh, P.C. B553, of five What instructions did he give years' service, said that although you?-He instructed me to send a he came from the same village, as telephone message and whon Dalip Singh and had been recruit- failed to get through, then he him-ed at the same time, they were not self went to telephone.
Did you tell the sergeant that B9 was lying wounded in the com- pound when you reported to him?
Yes.
close friends. He had never heard him voice any grievance or grudge against the officers in charge. He was off duty on the afternoon of July 21 and at 3.30 And you state in your evidence p.m. was taking ten under the that you closed the door of the trees near the gate of the com- barrack room nearest to the kit-pound with Dalip Singh, B315 and chen? Yes.
B722. The four of them had a
And you later found B9 lying in-game of cards, At 4 p.m. B722 side the door nearest to the kit
On your own evidence it Ischen-Yes, at 6.30 when I saw him clear that you didn't fall in in he was still lying there, the charge room?----As I could see the charge room door....
and
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"A Most Wicked Lie.”
Did you do anything to assist him? I simply poured some water into his mouth.
And left him there?-Yes.
Did you speak to B97He could not speak.
Did he say who had abot him?- No.
The foreman went on
to ask
You didn't go into the charge room; none of you did?--No.
Mr. King: One other thing, your Worship. Assuming that he (witness) was not station guard but off duty in the station and the alarm bell rung, to what position would he go ther?
Witness: In that case I would have taken the Lewis gun
several questions of the number gone upstairs and taken up my of shots accounted for by the wit stand on the front verandah. ness and then came back to the You are one of the Lewis gunpoint of the two Indians who were team aren't you?—Yes,
alleged to have been still asleep Jury Seek Information.
despite the noise which was going When asked if the jury wished The Coroner intimated that he to put any questions to the wit- had pursued the same question ness, the foreman
A. L. himself and the evidence of the Shields) said: Before putting witness on that point would have
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(Mr.
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went on station guard and the others went inside the station. He stayed under the trees cleaning his rifle on his own.
The Coroner: The station guard Bays that Dalin Singh was with you?-I was on my own.
One of you is lying.-I am tell- ing the truth. I was on my own under the tree when I heard the
first shot.
The Coroner: With your rifle? No, I had put it back in my room at 4.45. The first shot was about 5, p.m. and came from the direction of the front of the station. I thought. it was the re- port of a sporting gun and mained under the trees,
TC-
dis-
The Coroner: You can't tinguish the crack of a rifle from the report of a sporting gun after five years in the police force?- They are the same.
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