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servants attached to the Station.
Lance-Sergeant Madgwick
lived on the upper floor of the Station, the other
European Lance-Sergeant also had two rooms on the upper
floor. The ground floor was occupied by native Police.
Shortly after 2.00 p.m. on the 21st July, Lance-
Sergeant Madgwick, accompanied by one Chinese Detective,
left the Station on duty, both armed according to regula-
tions with revolvers only. At 3.00 p.m. the other
European Lance-Sergeant, taking the Chinese crew and one
Indian Constable, proceeded on duty in the Police Motor-
boat on the Shum Chun river. One Chinese Detective was
on leave.
The Indian married quarters are about two hundred
yards distance from the Station itself. The quarters
were occupied by an Indian Sergeant (Police Sergeant 135
Mastan Singh), and a married Constable. Throughout the
afternoon, Mrs. Madgwick was alone on the upper floor of
the Police Station. Apart from the Station Guard of one
Indian Constable, the Indian Police in the Station that
afternoon were off duty. Two of them were asleep: the
remainder were in the Station Compound talking and playing
cards.
At 4.00 p.m. Indian Police Constable B.722
Gurbaxsh Singh took over duty as Station Guard. Νο
-out incident of any kind had occurred through the afternoon.
At 4.00 p.m. Indian Constable 543 Dalip Singh was sitting
in the Compound talking to another Constable. At 4.30 p.m.
he was seen to enter the Station and was heard to remark
that when Sergeant Madgwick returned he (Indian Police
Constable B. 543) would ask for short leave from Station.
The man was then unarmed.
At 4.55 p.m. the Station Guard, who was at the
back of the Station, heard a shot fired from the West side
of the Station. He could not see who fired. The Station
Guard