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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