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(1) LEONARD DUNCAN PRINGLE, sworn.
I am M.O., Kowloon Hospital.
On 2/1/39 at 4.45 p.m.
MA HUNG, age 40 years, was admitted to Kowloon Hospital.
I saw him an admission and found him to be suffering from
a gunshot wound in the abdomen and spine. His condition
was bad and he died at 9.10 a.m. on 3/1/39. On 3/1/39
at 11 a.m. I performed a post-mortem on the body of MA
HUNG a Chinese male of about 40 years of age and a good
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physique. On the front of the abdomen just to left of
middle line and about 3" above the navel was a circular
penetratory wound of about 3/8" diameter. At the back of
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the body was a large lacerated wound in the region of the
It was
about 3" long x 2" wide and in the wound could be seen
lacerated muscles and a portion of the spine which was
left close to the left side of the spine.
seen to be fractured.
deepest part was 44".
The depth of this wound at the
There were no further external
marks of injury. On internal examination I found that
the track of the wound of the abdomen traversed the
abdominal wall and entered the abdominal cavity and
passed through both walls of the stomach, then through
both sides of the upper part of the small intestine:
then entered the tissues at the back of the abdominal
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cavity where it ruptured/artery causing severe haemorrhage
into the abdominal cavity and into the tissues behind.
At this part the track entered a large cavity to the left
of the spine which issued into the wound already described,
at the back of the body. This cavity and wound seemed to jo
be caused by a bullet striking the spine from the inside.
of the abdomen and the resulting fragments of the broken
vertérbrae and the bullet caused considerable lacerations
of the muscles of the back and also the external wound of
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the left Lis
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