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Robert Fichells states:-
I am in the employ of the China Light and Power Company, Kowloon. I am in charge of the out door staff. Walter Collins (deceased) was my assistant. He joined our Company about 9 months ago. He was formerly in the Manchester Regiment and served as a temporary policeman. He rejoined the Regiment, took his discharge and joined our Company. I don't think he served his apprenticeship as an electrician but he had a good practical knowledge of the trade. On the morning of the 12th inst, he went to the Ting Bui On shipyard, Cheung Sha Tan, with a Chinese wires- man to attend to one of his lights that had gone wrong there, At 11 am. I received a telephone message saying that he had met with an accident. I went to Cheung Sha Wan with the manager of the Company and found Mr. Collins there dead, He had a bruise near the left sye and a burn on the right thumb as if caused by a live wire. He was seen to by Dr. Wong.
We had him removed to Sham Shui Po Police Station and from there the Police removed him to the mortuary.
I went the following day and identified the body
in the presence of Dr. Murray and Sub-Inspector Ogg.
Deceased was not in good health and had been attending the doctor till a short time before his death. The lamp and fittings were the property of the consumer. We did not supply them. I examined the wire in the Ting Sui On Shipyard. I noticed that part of the covering had come off the wire leaving the live wire exposed. In my opinion deceased had caught the exposed part of the wire causing the burn on his finger and that the sharp pain made him stagger and fall, his head striking some object on the floor. I do not think the shock had anything to do with cause of death as there is not more than 110 volts at the most at Cheung
Sha Tan.
Lau Bau