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There you have another quite different story.
you to reconcile any two of these statements.
I defy any of
They are all
essentially different in every particular that matters.
Here he says "we had a fight and he hurt me, but that was all
over." He made no reference to the foot-ball. "And I ran
back to him again and I spoke to him about the wounding, but
he would not listen". Another insult! "Then he tried to
assault me, he did not succeed and I ran to my bed. He
followed me, I took up my knife to frighten him and
unintentionally I stabbed him."
Let me say just a word or two about that story.
In some particulars it agrees with what he has told us
today, though it is a very different story in the main, but
there are some points of agreement. If he is telling the
truth there you will realize first of all that all the
evidence that we have had about the attack taking place at
the deceased man's own bed is quite untrue, the fight was at
the accused's bed and Lo Yee cannot have seen the pursuit he
talks of, for the things must have been reversed and the
accused man must have been running as fast as he could to
get to the shelter and safety of his bed, pursued by the
deceased man.
Then he says "I got my knife and the wounds were quite
unintentional."
The wounds were, a couple of them, deadly stab wounds
one in the abdomen between the naval and the private parts
which perforated the intestines, another only 14" away from
it in the groin which again was deep enough and went through
into the intestines, the third one a very short distance from
the others, just above what is medically termed the iliac
crest which is the top of the hip joint, that against has got
soft tissues underneath and is a most dangerous place to stab
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