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REcd 27 JUN 19
Ping Shan,
2nd May, 1899.
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Ng Ki Cheong states:
On the 8th day of this Chinese moon (17th ultimo) Tang Cheong was caught at Cap-Sui-Mun by some Ba Tsun men. I do not know how many, and taken by them to Un Long. They took him at 3 p.m. to the Tai Ping Kuk Meeting House and left him there in charge of some of their number while the rest went away.
At 7 p.m., my brother Ng Fung Cheong sent to the Meeting House and fetched him away to his (Ng Fung Cheong's) house at Un Long. The people who were guarding him at the Meeting House allowed him to be taken, because he was not a Da Long man.
About 8 p.m. Tang Tsing Sz came to my brother's house and said "This is not your man, he has nothing to do with your village". My brother said "I brought him from the Tai Ping Kuk, I will take him back there". Then Tang Tsing Sz and a party of Ngan Tin men took Tang Cheong back to the Tai Ping Kuk. Ngan Tin is in Tung Kan district.
Between 3 & 4 p.m. on the 19th ultimo, I went from Ha Tsun to Un Long, and I saw Tang Cheong in the Tai Ping Kuk at Un Long sometime after 4 p.m. on that day. His hands were ...
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