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Lau the chauffeur of the accused cannot be found
in the Colony. It was stated in evidence by Christie and
Zimmern that the ac used on the moming of the 21st March
in Kowloon on the way to the Ferry said to Christie "I
have a trusted chauffeur who is under an obligatiŭn to
This remark formed part of a conversation to whí ch
I must refer later. Lai King Fat has stated that so far
as she knew Fung had no enemies ther than the dxxx acouted.
No suggestion has been made that the evidence,
which has been set out so far, is not both relevant and
admissible.
The Crown has tendered also other evidence to
which objection is here taken, the same objection having
been taken already at the trial. This evidence was
received and submitted to the jury in support of the
indictment. It was derived from the witnesses Zimmern and
Christie and falls into two sections. In the first
section it was stated that on the 20th Xạr h the accused
invited Zimmern to bring his friends to dinner. The
accused met Zi mern, Christie and two other men that
evening at the Ye Fong Chan restaurant. At this restaurant
the accused invited Zi-mern and his party to go with him
to the Mathm Hotd there and then to assault Fung. They
went to the Nathm Hɔtel arriving on the 31st March
between 1 a.m. and 2 s.a.
accused at this time was
The avowed object of the
*save his own face" by smacking
Fung's face. Fung did not leave his rʊom and the assault
did not take place.
Conversation then ensued between the
accused, Zima rn and Christie at the Nathan Ho tei.
The second section of this evidence is to the
following effect: that on the 21st March in the early
hours at the Nahm Hotel, Kowloon, after the failure of
the scheme to assault Fung in the hotel, the accused