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support the story that two men ran west along
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Voeux Road, and that the revolver was thrown away by one
of them. I entirely failed to discover any ground for
this proposition. The revolver night equally well
have been thrown in from Wardley Street. The Chief
Justice made the same remark in his summing up. No
one to whom I have spoken has been able to see anything
in the point.
5. Another point, treated as a main point by the de-
fence, was that Larkins's marking of the plan disproved
Korgan's evidence that he (Morgan) had the prisoner in
Bight practically all the time from the Praya to Dea
Voeux Road.
Larkins saw three "pictures", the Euro-
pean and the firemen, the ricksha, and the Chinese run-
ning on the foothpath near the Bank garden. He marked
on the plan the position of these three "pictures". It
was suggested to him in cross-examination that taking
in these three pictures was only a matter of a moment
and he assented.
In commenting on this and on Lar-
marking of the plan, Mr. Jenkins assumed that
the three "pictures" were simultaneous, and that the
European must still have been at the position marked
kins'
X X X when the Chinese was at the position marked
This was an obvious fallacy.
After seeing the
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European at the point marked X X.X Larkins looked for
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before seeing the
According to Morgan the Chinese
a moment at the ricksha at
Chinese at E was running desperately,
X X X and
Further, "moment"
and the two positions marked
cannot have been simultaneous.
ie ambiguous, and the third picture
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