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thereupon took this out and gave it to the accused./tore it
into small pieces which he threw down in the back yard,
The counle then left the house by the back yard and proceeded
up the hill by a street which Zimmern will now say waS
Cochrane Street and the Old Bailey to Caine Rod. They were on the way to a club at West Point and you will realise that is an extraordinarily circuitous route for one to take who
wants to go from Central Market to West Point.
They caught a University bus which, curiously
anough, Iau had caught at Blake Pier, and proceeded as far as
the University, before which they parted with lau, and at
which they descended and went to the Chui Man Club at West
Point. It was now about 11 p.m. and the next four or five
hours were taken up in sacking, gambling and drinking. About
4 8.0. Zimmern will say, accused drew him aside on a verandah,
gave him a 350 note, and another #10 for Christie and told
him he had better clear out to Canton. Zimmern, curiously e ough, according to his own story, had already made up his
mind to go to Canton that night, his reason being that he
was tired of this fooling about and racketting about late at
night and hoped to obtain a job through the influence of
Admiral Chan Chak at Canton.
Zimmern returned to the Tung Shan Hotel where he
found Christie sleeping in his room and catching the B o'alook
bot that morning proceeded to Canton.
Three days later Christie again comes into the
picture. In the afternoon he met the accused in Queen's Road
and accompanied hia to the Empress Hotel, Sousa also being
with then. There a roon was booked. There, while denying
complicity in the murder of "ung, the accused gave Christis
$10 and instructed him to go to Canton and fetch Zimmern back,
impressing gq him it was highly important that Zimern should be taught to say in case the Police got hold of him and
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