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certain dispositions had been made ontered with him. The next

morning at the Kowloon Mortuary in the presence of Dr. Smalley

I identified the dead bodies, which I had seen in the Station the

night before, of Mrs. Madgwick, P.C.B.543 and P.C.B.9.

After dark that night I saw no light what over in the Station.

Ky records show that practice alarms were held at lok ma thau on

8 occasions in June and July prior to this affair. I have since

checked up the Lok Ma Chau rifle ammunition and found a shortage

of 110 rounds in all. Men from Sheung Shui fired another 39

rounds. B.722 was short 13 rounds of revolver ammunition.

After entering the Station that night and seeing the body of

Krs. Madgwick I went downstairs again and found the body of B.9

in the passage between the cook-house and the big barrack room.

The door of that room opposite the Charge Room was closed but

not locked. The back door of the Station itself was closed and

locked."

To Jury: "I knew when I reached Lok Ma Chau that Mrs.Madgwick

was inside. Calls to her quarters had not been answered.

I heard that B.9 was lying wounded in the compound.

When B.543 was at Taipo last year he did not come under my

notice. After he was sent to Lok Ma Chau this time, he complain-

ed to me at the end of May or early in June. I ascertained the

facts accounting for his transfer and arranged an interview for

hám with the A.S.P. at Taipo. He seemed to have a grievance

over his transfer back to the N-T. after only 4 months. After

seeing the A.S.P., he made no further complaint through me.

Later, in June, I heard he had been put on report at the

quarterly inspection at Lok Ma Chau.*

To Court: "On the way to Lok Ha Chau that evening I had a

conversation with Serɛt. Medgwick. He believed that the worst

had happened to Mrs. Madgwick. It was about 8 p.m. that the

party under the A.S.2. and myself got up to the Station. It was

the A.S.P. who decided then to wait for the Thompson gun, but

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