78.

98

up to it; they either crotually touched

it

came to within

Mar as Q

cheongs or rods and yet they say

the jonk

was able.

to

way that

• got away from them. Their statement to the effect that the accused laid hold of the junk is contradicted by the evidence- of the passenger Lizig Achin.

Another poist which strikes we is this that both there witresses

in the

diagrams which they drow place the attacking junks belwon junk of the deccaved and Hov ; now fiw at Chine Lin

the

Ping

Days

they

were approaching Ping Hoi when

they

were attacked. its we

and the

about reaching Ping Hoi, Iheard, he says, "the report of a gun " captain fell. In another place he

say

sap

" the wind happened to rive

"and we

got away. I got off at Ping "Ioi." The evitévesser should have __

where the jicks went to

explained where the

and when the attacked

reached Ping Hois.

& jink:

The evidence of the two wituesis

and ev0A

A of Ling of Chine ces to how

they know the name

maw is not

very

of the

tuwarderið

conclusive.

Teong Ko Fat Yip who

he

xays

to

is a seaman and who appears have given his evidence in a

very

unsatisfactory manner, has charged the accused with murdering

brother

on

his

the 27th altarch, 1884.

aud on cresexamination being

pressed very

wich he admits that

these two withresses are not seamen

but

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