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constitute a strong case against him.
Otherwise I
a reward for the murder of Yeung Kui-wan.
It was
in his barracks that the conspirators are said to
have met (page 10). He is stated to have issued
a certificate of merit to one of the persons implicated in the actual commission of the murder (page
11), and to have specially deputed him to carry it
out (page 12).
C. is Ng Lo Sam, described as a police agent,
but lately the keeper of a gambling house at Canton.
The only witness at the trial who mentioned him
was Kong Ngau Ying, since dead (page 12 of the Judge's
Notes:- he described a meeting of the conspirators
at C.'s house on the night of the murder, but does
not say that C. was present). He is also mentioned
in the dying declaration of Yeung Kui-wan, page 19,
but it is there only said that one Kwang told the
dying man that the Provincial Treasurer had commissioned C. to compass his murder. I do not notice
Kwang's name in the list of witnesses now available.
But I observe that the Attorney-General considers
the statements of yourself and the Kongs to constitute
should have been of opinion that the evidence against
him was not of much value.
He had been in
In December, 1901, Mr. J. Scott, His Majesty's
Consul General, examined the evidence that was then
procurable against this man, and came to the conclusion that nothing could be proved.
the employ of the Hongkong police, and, as Mr. Scott
says: "went and came in the pay of Canton and Hong-
kong alike, leaving no trace of his dealings, and so
cleverly playing his double game that according to the
highest legal opinion no conviction could be obtained
against him in the Hongkong Courts." He was, however,
expelled from Hongkong owing to the suspicions
entertained of his complicity in the murder.
To sum up so much as came out at the trial with
regard to these three men, I think one can only say
that there is evidence to implicate Tung Cheong (A.)
in the commission of the murder, that there is some
against the captain of the gunboat, though not so di-
rect nor so strong, as having entered into a conspiracy
to
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