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...to arms like pistols, swords, tridents and then I first saw the defendants had spears. When our party arrived they were about ... a short distant. When I first saw them the defendants were cutting the grass on the ground and then the defendants came away.

J...suu...not certain about time as we had no clock.

Yeung Line Fai said that the defendants owed him money.

Mr. Wong told me about daylight. Yeung Same Fai's grandson told me how the matter commenced. Yeung Ting Fai had been shot with a gun. The defendants used to gamble.

...sentenced to ... months imprisonment for gambling.

Yeung Ting Fai had cuts on his forehead, and a bullet wound in the belly and a trident thrust in the wrist. Yeung Chim Being had cuts on his face and one bullet wound in the side. The other two had no cut/wound.

To the magistrate.

I neither heard nor saw any dead bodies on 22 November 1888.

At the time I knew Yeung Sis (the deceased) I never heard that his wife was beaten on the occasion in question; nor that his children were killed.

...what?

...by ...tp...to...

...had been killed. A cousin elder told me that Yeung Ting Fai did quarrel with them. I am certain they have heard that they were not killed.

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