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tea poy close to her feet was a considerable part of her brains,
and on a chair and the floor near by were more brains.
her skull and brains were scattered all over the floor.
wall on the compound side brain and blood was spattered.
was clear to me that she must have been leaning against the
bath room door with her left shoulder and stooping a little
when a bullet came through the door and took off the back of
her head. At close range one bullet could have done that.
I am satisfied that the body remained almost upright and
The wall received three bullets in all that hit the head.
opposite the bathroom door contained 5 holes, to 3 of which
The bullet that adhered fragments of the deceased's hair.
actually took away the back of her head must have been the 3rd
one. Death would have been instantanedus with the firing of
that shot. As a result of examination at the time I am
satisfied there had been to attempt to interfere sexually
with deceased. At the Kowloon Mortuary on the 22nd July I did
a post mortem in the presence of Inspector Brennan who identified
the body as that of Mrs. Hadgwick. on the same occasion he
also identified the bodies of F.C. B.543 Dalip Singh and Chagg®
Singh B.9.
The second dead body I saw that night was that of P.C.B.543.
This body was lying on its back on the front 1st floor verandah. It was warmer than Mrs. Madgwick's, but I judged it from its
condition to have been dead less than 5 hours. I found
bullet wound that carried away the right orbital cavity and surrounding bone. The posterior wall of the skull behind had been carried away together with the greater part of the brain.
No other wound was discovered at the post mortem next day.
This wound must have been caused by a bullet fired at very
short range and could have been self inflicted. Death was
the instantaneous result of the wound. I saw a rifle lying
beside B.543 on the verandah.
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