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Why were running very fast?
A.
I wanted to go to the Central district side, to get back,
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You were running for some object, you were running to find
somebody, you were running very fast?
A.
I was running for nothing.
Those 7 or 8 other men who you were running behind disappeared
You went on by yourself up Wardley St. following in the
direction of the first two men. Now what I want to know is,
where were you going, or what had you in your mind. How many
men did you follow up?
A.
Three persons up Wardley St. the part between the Bank and
the City Hall.
Q.
When you were going up Wardley St. did you hear anybody
shouting in Chinese "seize him" "stop him"?
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A.
I did not hear that.
Q.
We are told that it was said.
Shouts were going, voices
were calling out from the tram lines "stop him", "seize him",
did you hear that?
A.
A,
I did not hear that.
The European gentleman tells us, rightly or wrongly, that
those remarks applied to you. Furthermore he says that you
who
were the only Chinese came running up that street, and
that he saw nobody in front of you, or following you, and
nobody going up the steps leading to the Theatre?
It might have been that these two men running ahead might
have gone past before this European arrived.
Court adjourns.
(The prisoner recalled at the request of the Jury who ask)
I am registered in Seaman's guild in October and did not become &
seaman until December because I went to the country. I was here
when registered, went away did not return until January last
Chinese moon and several days afterwards joined the ship.
As my surname is the same as the deceased I don't know it we were