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Accordingly, in co-operation with the examining Deputy, we summoned the prisoner and searchingly interrogated him, pressing him closely with cross-examination. He admitted intimate acquaintance in the past with Yang Chu Yun and Shih Ching, and that in the 7th moon of this year he had a meeting in the office of the "Chinese Daily Press" with Yang Chu Yun, who informed him of a plot against the lives of various officials.
In the 8th moon Shih Ching Ju invited prisoner to go to Hong Kong to see Yang Chu Yun, and Yang invited prisoner and the following men:
Chen Kuei Shih
Wang Chih Fu
Teng Yui Nan
Lien Yu Cheng
Li Chi Tang
as well as Shih Ching Ju, to the top story of the premises of the "Chinese Daily Press" where they together discussed plans. Yang Chu Yun said the best plan for arranging the massacre was to secretly conceal dynamite (in various places) so that all might explode at once - and that the result would infallibly be fatal. He told prisoner to undertake (the carrying out of the plan). Prisoner seeing that the undertaking was a great one, dared not agree. Then Shih Ching Ju spoke forth and said that an old family servant of his named Sung Shao Tung could manage the affair. Thereupon Shih Ching Ju took over the management of it, and having mutually agreed upon this they separated. Subsequently Yang Chu Yun purchased dynamite, sent it to Canton, and Sung Shao Tung took it over and hired a house where he buried it.
Prisoner had on successive occasions heard this from Sung Shao Tung, and he knew the actual facts, but had not joined in the plot. If Yang Chu Yun were ...