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above dates do not agree very well, especially as the
strike began on the 13th January, but at mast he was in
Hongkong for only between 10 and 20 days on this occasion.
He was here for 3 days in October, 1921, and when he was,
a boy of about 10 years of age, in a year when there was
a typhoon, he lived for two months at Yaumati, which is
in Kowloon and is not in Hongkong proper. (This must have
been in 1906 or 1908). The Chinese are notoriously
inaccurate in matters of topography and street names.
In spite of this limited residence the prisoner spoke.
glibly of the Central District, Wanchai, the Central
Market, the Western Market, Stanley Street, the Naval
Yard, Connaught Road (usually though not always called by Chinese the Sea Front) and the Hongkong & Shanghai
Bank. He arrived alone, found his way alone acrose
the harbour to his boarding house, and set out alone" for
the Naval Yard" on the morning of the murder.
6. A small point to be noted is that the prisoner
(the pastry cook from the country), when questioned
about his position, himself called for the plan and
marked it. After an intervention by . Jenkin he
professed ignorance of plans and placed the mark in a
slightly different position, the difference being im-
material.
$ The prisoner made a significant reply when asked
by the Chief Justice what he would have done if he had
not been stopped at the top of Wardley Street.
said that he would have turned in the direction of the
Central District, as he "wanted to get back", He
probably did. He seems to have forgotten for the
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