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moment that his story was that he was going to meet his friend, A Chung, at the Naval Yard, which lies in the op- posite direction.
10. The statement which he made at the Police Station, at E' 30 p..
on the day of the murder, in answer to the charge, is also significant.
kong and Shanghai Bank:
He said, "I was passing the Hong-
I do not know what was the mat-
ter." As already remarked, it is strange that a pastry cook from the country who had lived such a short time in Hongkong should know the bank, and "passing the bank" was nct a very apt description for a man who had run "desperately. from Statue Square and who was knocked down and arrested outside the bank.
11. He could give no reason for running. He told his counsel that he ran because he" saw at many people running", and he told the Chief Justice that he "was running for
The Chinese are notoriously averse to mixing themselves up in street rowe and police court cases and other people's business.
nothing".
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Larkins's Evidence,
I doubt if I would have tendered this evidence if I
had time to consider the point.
had
The history of the ad- mission of the evidence is as follows. Mr. Jenkin opened the defence, and examined the prisoner in chief, on the afternoon of the 21st March.
It was then that the case
for the defence was first clearly disclosed, and until then it was not known whether the defence would call the prisoner, or any evidence. When Mr. Larkins read the case for the defence in the newspapers he decided to tell me what he knew. Ee came to see me about 10 a.. on the 22nd March. I had