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without any complaint of the absence of light.
To get back to where I broke off, if the tap on the
shoulder, which no one has suggested was followed by any
other violence, was any indication of intended violence
apart from the fact that Leung Ki looked angry, we are told
that the accused man turned round and walked some 6 feet
to the corner between the ice chest and the noodle stall and
there on top of the three boxes was this chopper. That
chopper we know the accused man picked up, then, according
to the witnesses for the Crown, he turned round with it,
he held it up, he has admitted this, to about shoulder level
and said "Don't move a hand."
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Well, gentlemen, it may be good fun baiting your
debtor up to a point but there comes a time when these things
cease to be fun and become very earnest, and according to
the Crown witnesses, that time had come for both Chan Kam On
and Leung Ki when they saw that the accused had ceased to
see the joke of the whole business and had picked up this
chopper.
"I was
At that moment, says Chan Kam On, I ran.
nearest to Des Voeux Road, Leung Ki was on my left and the
accused was in between us. So I stood not on the order of
my going and I made for Des Voeux Road, but as I went I
turned round and I saw Leung Ki going as hard as he could
up Chinese Street, followed by the accused."
The other witnesses that the Crown has produced
before us from one point of view are a very interesting
That point of view is that they have no
connection whatsoever either with the accused or with
Leung Ki or With Chan Kam On
assortment.
that they have no axe to
grind on one side or the other and that they were men who had perfectly normal and proper and innocent reasons for