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Not very long afterwards he took her and another girl on a three weeks trip up-country and during that trip he proposed marriage to her, and she accepted subject to her father's
consent. He gave her an engagement ring and, on returning to
Singapore, the father acquiesced in the arrangement. It was agreed that no marriage should take place until the accused himself were twenty-one years of age.
He was
In
In the summer of 1929 the troupe returned to Shanghai,
the accused accommnying them as far as Hong Kong, and renewing
before he left the ship his promise of marriage After a few
months he followed her again to Shanghai, taking 60,000 with him and staying for same time with her and her father in Shanghai.
At this time the deceased, George Fung, was also in Shanghai and was on friendly terms with the accused, not, three years ago, apparently attracted by the girl. September, 1930, the father left for Peking, acquiescing in the extraordinary arrangement of leaving his daughter in the charge of the accused, The couple, in fact, set up house together and occupied the same room, but the girl will say - and in this the is corroborated by the evidence of men who heard the same thing from the accused that no intimacy occurred between them either then or at any subsequent date, in Shanghai or "ong Kong.
The two seemed to have lived fairly happily together
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in spite of quarrels mainly on account of accused's association with other wanen. After one quarrel she threatened to leave
him and he threatened to shoot her if she did.
The Chief Justice (intervening) asked that it be
explained to the accused that the interpreter was not able to interpret everything Mr. Lindsell was saying and he (the Chief Justice) was not asking him to go more slowly. But a shorthand note was being taken of the opening and he would be able to
read that at a later stage, Unless the accused wished the
words