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CHIEF JUSTICE'S CHAMBERS
COURTS OF JUSTICE,
HONG KONG.
2nd May, 1940.
Your Excellency,
I have the honour to report that yesterday evening I pronounced sentence of death cná man named
Hau Kang Po aged 51 who was found guilty of the
murder of his younger brother Hou Shek Fo at the
village of Yung Shu Au in the Saikung district
on the 22nd March.
Both the condemned men and his decnamed brother
had spent their lives at sea but some three years ago they returned to their native village and becaue farmers.
The family is the registered owner of a nwaber
of farms and recently owing to the age and frailty of the eldest brother who was trustee for the family, the plots of land were transferred in the Taipo Register to the names of the deceased man and an elder relative,
who held of course as trustees for the whole tong. The
condemned man appears not to have appreciated the
position and to have believed that the deceased man's
object was to get the land for hisself am to deprive his brother of all rights to it.
There were, according to the evidence, one or
two other differences between the brothers but they are
of su trivial a nature as to make it difficult to believe
that they aculd possibly form a mutive for muraer.