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CHIEF JUSTICE'S CHAMBERS,
COURTS OF JUSTICE,
HONG KONG.
12th
12 th September, 1934.
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Your Excellency,
I have the honour to report that on Friday
7th instant a Chinese male named Ng Loi Yuen alias Ng Yik
Lam alias Ng Yik San, a native of Swatow, was found guilty
by a Special Jury of the murder of a European boy of eight
years of age, named Michael Pine, and was sentenced to death
by me in accordance with law.
2.
The convicted man was formerly employed as a shop
boy by the Swatow Drawn Thread Work Co., in Pedder Street,
but left Hong Kong about four years ago.
3.
He returned to that shop on the 21st June last and
explained that it had been his desire to proceed from Swatow
to Singapore, for which purpose he had borrowed ten dollars
in Swatow. Before leaving Swatow he was cheated out of
five dollars and having apparently stowed away on a vessel
bound for Singapore, he was found, forced to pay three dollars
for his passage here, and put ashore when the vessel reached
Hong Kong.
4.
His
He had therefore little money on arrival, and was
nursing a grievance about his treatment in Swatow.
luggage consisted of a small rattan basket containing clothes
and three letters to which I shall refer later.
5.
On the morning of the 22nd June he had his morning
meal with the staff of the Pedder Street shop and went out
about 10 a.m.
6.
Nothing is known of his movements from that hour
until shortly after 3 p.m.