I
Mandarin to inform the relatives of NA-fung
that they could take his body;
body or
(f) that the head and NA-fung
identified
4.
on.
the same day.
were
I wish to state that I have
in obtaining experienced great difficulty evidence owing to
the terror of the Chinese witnesses at the idea of placing themselves in antagonism to the Mandarins, of whom they, naturally, stand in much greater fear than they do of British officials. I would, on this account, suggest that their
should not be divulged
to the
Chinese Authorities unless absolutely
necessary.
I have &c.
M.G. Mitchell,
Acting Police Magistrate.
(Copy)
Evidence.
November 1st 1886.
Luying A-cheng declared:
181
I am a coolie in the Hung Hom
Police Station. On the 10th ult. about 4.45
p.m. I went
on board the steam launch
"Kam Hing" at the wharf in Hung Hom. I saw a
board on
the launch saying that the launch ran to Hung Hom and Kowloon. She
started about 5 p.m. with about 30 passengers on board.
As soon
as she started the crew took down
the awning. This is not usually done. When she
had got about 40
yards from the shore,
the engines
stopped. As soon
as the
engines stopped, another steam launch, a white one, named "Wing Hing", came alongside the "Kam Hing". About 20 or 30
passengers
were
on board the "Wing Hing". One of them
was a
Portuguese;
he
was in plain
clothes. There were
six or seven
soldiers in
Portuguese uniform. When the "Wing Hing"
got alongside the "Kam Hing", all the Chinese