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Witness: I understand that he also was shot down.
Continuing, the Hon. Mr. Wolfe said that on July 17, 1918, P.C.B. 18, Taja Singh ran amok at Tai O and shot and killed the officer in charge, Sergeant Glendinning, in the charge room, and then got the. station on fire. He eventually shot himself.
bers. We ke, as far as possible, to keep the members under their own officers for the more satisfac tory working of their force. At large stations we have them mixed. At Central we have Sikhs and Moslems.
.
Do you think that if it were pos- sible for you to keep a mixed forco that it would be any protection against such occurrences like this?.
I don't think so.
The number of running amoks
Coroner: As a consequence of these cases was any ru commendation passed to provide against any_pos- Mr. T. Murphy was the first wit-sible recurrence of such an affair? all seem to be Sikhs?-It unfor neas called when the Lok Ma Impossible to Make Provisions.tunately appears to be so according Chan inaniry was resumed vestar. Witness: Your Worship, it is to our records. day afternoon. He stated that he quite impossible, I maintain, to went to the Lok Ma Chau Police make provision for cases of this Station after the departure of the kind... Elther, we have to trust Ipemester General of Police, he men with weapons or we must not areluine roughly at 11 nm.
give them any weapons at all and Corner: Had the rescue party the nature of their duties requires alrendy entere†?
that they should be armed on duty. In this connexion....
Witness: No they had assem- bit.
And you joined the rescue party at the station under the Inspector
General 7-Yes,
Continuing witness said that he found the body of Dalip Singh after the Station had been entered. It'
was on the verandah outside the dining room of the Officer in Charge of the Station. The ser vice rifle was between the man's legs with the muzzle pointing to- wards the upper part of his body. One shell was still in the magazine. Witness remained at the Station that night and the next morning carried out an examination of the station und the surrounding grounds. Fragments of lead were found in the room in which Mrs. Madgwick was shot.
Coroner: This especially ap plies to the outlying districts? Yes, In this connexion I may say I on duty. They were not armed on was the first to arm the Chinese duty before.
In reply to a question put by the Coroner, witness said he presumed that in former times the Chinese were either not sufficiently efficient, or trustworthy to be armed, but one of the reasons why the step was taken by witness was because of the outbreak of armed robberies where the robbers used pistols. In the olden daya the armed robberies were committed by men armed with knives, but since the War armed robbers used pistols..
Witness remarked that he did not know whether it was outside the scope of the inquiry, but men tioned that one Chinese only had inabused the trust as regards serious
while ballet holes were also present in the walls. Rifle shells were found in various marts of the Station and also
the grounds.
misuse of his weapon and that was when a Chinese had wounded an
Witness mentioned in reply to another case that the records show" ed one case of a Mohammedan com- mitting suicide.
Officer's Fallure.
the lance sergeant in the station The Coroner: You consider that any way carried out his duties that Tell on him during this episode?- He carried out his initial instruc
armed with rifles and ammunition. tions up to a point. As soon as the alarm was sounded he saw the men
consider that he failed in allow ing the machine gun to be taken up stairs after the men were armed.
It is pretty clear that he failed to keep a proper guard of the charge room?--Yes, there was only the guard in the room. He should have endeavoured to make it im possible for B543. to get down- stairs again. I might say that the Lewis gun was formerly kept up- stairs in the single Europeans'
quarters, bat it was decided that
the gun would be more easily ac- cessible if kept in the charge room, made. I should like to add that all and that was why the change was
stations in the New Territory, and especially those on the border and the islands, are encircled by barb- ed wire and a constant guard is
from over the border. This ar-
was made after rangement
the pirates in 1913. That is also why
Armourer's Evidence.
E. Scott, Police Indian sergeant for having reported kept in case of a possible attack Sergeant J. Armourer, said that he was handed him.
one of
there are alarm stations and alarm
the rifle belonging to Dalip Singh Coroner: Had the Indian mem--| and also Si shells of rifle ammunters of the Force had any parti-Chung Chau atation attack by tion. He examined the rifle and gular instructions as to what to do
in the event of another found it had been fired quite res cently while on the face of the bolt their nuniber running 'amok? there was a peculiar snip near the Witness: No, your Worship; it striker hole. This left a peculiar has occurred an rarely that no mark on the face of each percus-issued of any particular kind. Cir- special instructions have been sion cup as it was fired.
By examining the caps witness found that thirteen of the 81 shells had been fired from Dalip Singh's
rifle, while the fourteenth was still in the magazine. Witness tested the rifle with 15 rounds and each showed the peculiar mark mention- ed.
The remaining 67 rounds had been fired from five different rifles.
Coroner: Only five-Yes. Are you quite sure of that?
Yes Sir.
cumstances so vary under which these cases occur that one set of instructions would hardly suffice.
practices each week.
The Coroner: Now we come to
July 21. It appears that no at- tion until you arrived, which was tempt was made to rush the sta- shortly after 11 pm. Have you
any comments
to make on that
situation?-I can only state that had I arrived very much earlier. I should have hesitated to rush the station myself,
Will be Shot at Sight. The members of the Force, the Asiatic" members of the Force.
For what reasons?-The station would they know, at any rate, that
was surrounded by police. I knew if one of their own people ran amok that B643 could not escape, which like this and attempted to commit was my main fear when I first re- murder or committed murder. he celved the report.. By the time I would be shot down at sight? arrived a cordon had been drawn They would know that.
very closely round the station by the D.S.P. and I drew it even more closely, so that the men were un- der the walls. I abould like to make it quite clear that the medical evidence goes to show that B548 was supposed to have committed suicide at about 7 p.m. or even be- fore, but I take it this is more or less guesswork, and I doubt if the medical officer would be prepared to say whether a person had been dead three hours 'or six hours,
The next witness called was the
That would be known-Oh yes, Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, Inspector that would be known to every man, General of Police, who had oc- because in the instructions in the cupied that position, (formerly use of fire arms it is definitely laid known as Captain Superintendent down that if a man fires at you you THE EUROPE HOTEL, Ltd. of Police), for the past twelve certainly must fire back.
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Fire at you, yes:-I mean, the instructions are more complicated, but that point is quite clear. Where anybody hires at a police officer he is entitled to fire in return.
The Coroner: I have evidence to show he had been dead four or five hours.
The Coroner asked witness how far back the Police records went.
Witness replied that there were no satisfactory official records of the events prior to witness' own
That would refer to firing at time. Witness introduced a new other Police officers ?-Oh certain- system of keeping the Police, rely that would include anybody. cords when he joined the Force. Now it is a matter of common There
were a large number of knowledge that, in the Indian Army documents in existence when he especially, a large unit or battalion
All Night Fight Expected. took over but they were not filed is more than often made up of dif- Mr. Wolfe: I maintain that he in any
way. Witness started a ferent types of Indians-Mosiemą might not have been dead for that new register in 1919.
and Hindus there are, so to speak, time. From reports, it would ap Previous Shooting Incidents,
every one against the other. It appear that shots were fired at 9 p.m. pears at Lok Ma Chau and Sheung In any case I personally expected Witness naked the Coroner if he Shui you have Sikhs only?We to take all night to capture the ata- were wanting information of pre- have the identical arrangement as tion. I knew I had to capture the rious incidents, wherein Indians exists in the Army. We have station before daylight, because the ran amok, and remarked that he Mohammedans and Sikhs, but for station is so situated that men post- had made inquiries and could trace the satisfactory administration of ed all around would be exposed as two cases, which, he thought, were a station and also to keep down ex- soon as daylight came. Several authentic. There were traces of penses, especially a small station times I flashed my light into the the Tai O incident of 1918 and also like this in the New Territories, station trying to get some response, of an incident in 1903. The latter it would be extremely difficult and, after allowing some consider- information, however, was only an to ran it satisfactorily by able time to elapse, and since no oral record which had been handed dividing up one station into, say, firing had taken place, I came to down, there being no written re-half Sikhs and half Moslems. You the conclusion that the best thing cord of the affair.
would have Since 1897 there were four cases kitchens, separate bath rooms, etc.
to have separate to do was to investigate further.
The Coroner: That is not really of Indians running amok. In 1897 It is already complicated because my point. You arrived about 10.30 information gathered from the re- we have to have separate accom- p.m. and I want to know whether. cords., available was to the effect modation for Europeans and Chin- you consider your subordinate of that an Indian Sikh constable ran amok and fired at an Inspector at we should then have
ese; that makes it three lots, but ficers were justified in delaying so have four long as they did without attempting the Central Police Station. He lots. We should have to have to rush the station?-I consider missed and was afterwards shot separate sergeants, which would they were justified, because they The next case was on January & complicate matters with regard to would have unnecessarily exposed 1903, when, at Hunghom, Thamman discipline. When you have a Sikh the men to grave risk of incurring Singh shot and wounded another sergeant and a Mohammedan ser further casualties, and further they Sikh, Ladda Singh, who was sub-geant and the Sikh sergeant is sick, allowed sufficient time to elapse to sequently invalided in 1920.
the Mohammedan sergeant would make reasonably sure that nothing Coroner: What happened to take charge and might come at once. was happening in the station. P.C.B. 693 (Thamman Singh) ? into conflict with the Sikh mem-
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