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I was frightened & cried "Step mother: uncle has a chopper and is coming here". I ran out & did not see the fight. After my mother had gone to police my father was in a deck chair in our house. Later he was moved into the kitchen near the boilers. I helped others to carry him into the kitchen. xxd. Macnamara
I had no been long in the kitchen when I saw accused pick up the chopper. I had been here some little time. I heard no quarrel between accused & my father. I had heard them quarrelling & then accused went into his house. What I heard was accused from his house shout out & my father from the kitchen replied but what he said I didn't hear. Shortly after that accused reached up for the chopper. I can't remember what they said: I couldn't understand. I did not say at Magistracy that I did not hear any quarrel. They shouted to one another but I couldn't hear what was said clearly. I was asked if my father was first to take up the chopper. I denied that. I don't know if accused got a cut on his left hand. He may have cut himself.
LAM CHEUNG TAI: dd. xc. Murphy
I live at Yung Shu An. On 22nd March about 1.30 p.m. I heard weeping from Hau Shek Po's house. I went in & saw deceased sitting in a deck chair. I helped to wrap up his head. I saw blood on his head. His head was wrapped in an old singlet. I helped to tie up the singlet properly.
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MAK LAM MUN
FONG FUK
HAU SAU FUK.
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đã, xả Murphy
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Cousin of accused & deceased. I have known both of them all their lives. I know all about the family land. It was registered in name of Hau Shing Li Tong. It was transferred into names of deceased & myself. We were trustees for the family. My elder brother is trustee for the Tong. He is very old & infirm. xxd. Macnamara.
I never knew of any disputes between accused & deceased.
FEROZ SHAH, dd.xd. Murphy
P.S. E187. Saikung. On 22nd March at 4.30 p.m. I started for Yung Shu Au, with three other Indiana & the widow. She took us to Yung Shu Au village to house No.4. In the house I saw a man lying in the kitchen near the boiler as in Ex. A1.
I examined him. His head was covered with a black Chinese jacket. He was alive & was wounded on the head. He said in broken English "I am dead. My elder brother hit me with a chopper today". I wrote down in this notebook what he said (Exb.L). I have translated it into English. In consequence of what widow told me I went into adjoining house. There I saw accused. He handed me this chopper (Ex.K) which was lying on the floor near his bed. I arrested him. I went back to wounded man & sent to village for help. The man died at 7.10 p.m. I took accused to Sai Kung Station, arriving at 11 p.m. I left L. S. B472 in Yung Shu Au.
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I had not expected to find any wounded man there. I had no first aid appliances with me. Only dressing on wounds was Chinese jacket.
HADAIT ALI. dd. xd. Murphy
L. 3. 3472, Saikung. At 4.30 p.m. on 22nd March with last witness
I went to Yung Shu Au. was instructed to guard house and contents At 11 a.m. Sergt. Roberts came. Nothing had been touched,
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