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and I noticed two skin deep wounds on
was
his head - On
hiur what was my asking. the matter he said that his wife
running away
and that they had had fight.
I visited
The following morning Shek Ko, about six miles from Shaukiwan,
and obtained the Hey of the house
belonging to the
woman,
Chun amui,
living with
from her little boy who was a relative near the village. I unlocked the door and made a diligent search of the premises but I found no sickle or tool of any kind, had there been
I should have seen it. I afterwards
any
locked
up the house myself and handed the Key to the Police in charge of Shekko.
From thence I visited the place of the
grass in
outrage and searched all the the neighbourhood but could find trace of any weapon or tool.
During the investigation before the ___
again at the Magistracy
Coroner and
I heard the Prisoner state that one
women had
head with
of
first
struck him
the
on
a
grass
sickle at the same
has
time shewing the two wounds on his head and which he alleged been made by the sickle.
(signed) John Calder Swanston,
Supreme Court House,
24th July, 1878.
Inspector.
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