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knowledge of it and wishes to give evidence, I shall be gind it ho433
will communicate with me direct and I will arrange to have his svidence available. Is the first witness here ir,'lakeman? Before the ar:ival of the first witness His Wership consulted with
It will be convenient if this inquiry the jury and then announced:
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Both Mr. Takoman and
is continued on Mondeg afternoon at 2.15 pm, and from than onwards from II •'olsok daily шtil it is finished. Mr.Shenton concurred in this arrangement,
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Dr. James Thornton Smalloy, Government Medical Officer in Kowloon,was thon called as the first witness. He said: I saw the deceased, Shui Pui,aliva e Baroh 3rd between 10 and 10.15 a.m. I saw him en
the Taipe read,near the seventh milestone.
His Worship. What was his condi ti en?
Dr. Smalley. He was lying on the left-hand side of the road going down to Shatin, He had a bullet wound in his left grein. The entrance wound of the bullet vas behind the left buttock and the diamater of the wound, was about It inches. It bore a distinot mark of the entrance of the ballot. The bullet was practically vertical when it hit the man: tho flat side of the bullet hit him. (Witness demonstrated the flight of a bullet, spinning over
and evor,
the nose fellewing the base.) The bullet than tere through the muscles and game inside the femur to emerge on the immer side of the left thigh. The size of the exit wound was about equal to my twa fists put togethor about six inches squaro. The bullet then grased the left side of his scrotum and just grased the inner side of his right thigh. His right leg must have been a little forward at the time. The wound was dressed and the man was taken by meter ambulance to the Eweng Wah Hospital. He lived until
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7 'clock on Sunday, the 5th.,and then he died,
His Worship.
Dr. Smalley.
His Worship.
Was he under your care?
Yes, I operated on the 3rd.,about 12 e'olook.
And he was doing well?
Dr. Smalley. Yes.He got comprossien of the urine,which they do get
He died owing to shock. He died from that and not from the wound, from compression of urine resulting from the wound and shook.