M
I may say that Len Kong (pager 69 to 73) did net
confirm Zimmern*r account of the prisoner's
agi tated behaviour on the night of the murder.
He had not the same opportunitjes of observation
að Zimmern, and he was a friend of the prisoner,
but he seemed a very fair witness.
For example,
he said (p.72) that he thought that he would have
heard the "death road" statement if it had bee
made.
Such a remark, however, would naturally be
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made in a low tone, and might not be heard from the
back seat of even an Austin Seven. Lan ib Kong
did establish one thing, i,e., that the prisoner
took a strangely cireuitous route from the Kwong
Fai Ki to the Chui Hang Club at West Point (pages
40, 71, 107), which of course is one of Zimern's
instances of the prisoner's agitated and suspicious
behaviour.
9. It is difficult to understand why
the prisoner should have kept the second syringe
(yage 60) seeing that it was Christie who was to
use it on Jung, but I do not think that this con-
sideration is of much assistance towards arriving
at the truth.
10. The defence also remarked that it
was improbable that the prisoner would have „roposed
murder to Christie after a few hours acquaintance.
That is a quite good comment to make, but it seama
to me to be very for from decisive.
evidence.
11. The defence also attacked Ch'ui's
He probably lied both about A To Bui