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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1930.

POLICE STATION TRAGEDY.

HOW MRS. MADGWICK WAS KILLED.

Evidence at Inquest.

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man had been running about pro- vious to his "denth. It was well- known that in battlefields tha first to fall took longer to get into a stato of rigor mortia. Others who fell after it Tor of exertion and excitement would come into that state almost im- mediately...

The "Amok's Injury.

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Entertainments. To-day- Queen's Theatr

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There was a large wound in the head which carried away the "South Sea

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ruvity of the right eye and th."Montmartre 'Follies." Interest in the Lok Ma Chau tragedy which was resumed before wall of the skull immediately be "New York."

surrounding bone. The pasterior, To-day -Star Mr. K. E. Lindselt and a Coroner's special jury yesterday afternoon,hind this was carried away with fo-day-World was- centred on the medical evidence given by Dr. J. T. Smalley. the greater part of the brain. "The Life of a Tuchun,"

No other wound was discovered at picture). From observations he minde in the back sitting room where, the body the

post-mortem cexamination. Today Majestic of Mrs. Dora Winifred Madgwick was found, the doctor formed the Death was due to a bullet wound His Tiger Lady." theory that she was murdered whilst she was leaning against the in the skull and haemorrhage.

Today Central The wound must have been caus-"Love Parade." bathroom door, apparently attempting to prevent her quarters beinged by a bullet fred at very short To-day-Public Rand invaded by the murderer. From holes in the door panel it was clear range and could have been seif-Kowloon Football Club-Ground,

inflicted. Death was instantane p.m. that five bullets were shot through it, and three of them struck the unfortunate lady's head. Death was instantaneous,

The amah employed by the murdered lady, said that she saw an Indian come on to the back verandah and fire two shots in the direction of the bathroom. Sergt. Madgwick's "boy," whilst hiding in the amah's room, heard five shots fired in quick succession, the reports came from the direction of the bathroom.

DEFENDING BATHROOM DOOR.

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Dus As a result of that wound. To-morrow-Y.M.C.A. "Concert, A rifle was hy the side of the p.m.

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The third body that witness See Special Sports Diary on page

was in an alley-way of the ground

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Shot From Behind.

Meeting.

The entry wound was two inches to the left of the middle line of August 15-Kowloon C.C. extra- the back and at the level of the ordinary meeting. 5.30 p.m. third lumbar vertebra. The exit

Home Mails, wound was three inches to the To-morrow-Inward from Europe ight of the middle line of the via Suez (Mantua); from Europe gigrenth intercostal space-in via Siberia (Witram).

Au Haen, zervánt employed by What was he doing with it?--- Sergt. Madgwick, gave further 'He was cleaning it with a rag, testimony yesterday concerning an Bit you know what he did with Indian ronstable

he saw, the rifle afterwards?--I did not other words between the tenth and whont stalking about the Station, hold- At that time was he by himsel eleventh ribs. This body was the ROUND THE CINEMAS ing a rifle in his hands and fir- or was anyone else with him?-warmest of the three." Bleeding ing as he moved about from place He was alone.

inter-abdominal. Was to place. Witness did not know After you ran into the room, with such a wound would live the name of this Indian, and in

were you interfered with by the longer, therefore witness calculat his evidence, he invariably em- murderer or by anybody else?-ed that death took place four played the term

of "murder" in was not molested in any way at hours previously at the most, al referring to the identity of this all, either by the murderer or by though he would have been un- Indian.

anyone else.

conscious long before that. There

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man

SOUTH SEA ROSE' ON TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME.

PASSION-MAD GIRL:

Allan Dwan, one of the dires Au luen said: "The next I saw Dr. J. T. Smalley, Medieal. Ons very little external haemorr- tors of Fox Movietone, whoac lat- of the Station guard the con cer, in charge of the Kowloor hage. The post-mortem examina-eat production, "South Sea Rose," statile on duty at the Station at Hospital, said that at 7.40 p.m. ontion showed that he WAS shot starring Lenore Ulric, gces on the time) Was when he came July 21 he received a telephone right through, and the liver was view at the Queen's Theatre to through the back gate. He had message to go to Lok Ma Chau badly larcerated. Death was due day, was jumps ahead of his con- no revolver in his hand and had He got there at 8.45 and entered to a bullet in the abilomen and temporaries wher the all talking renched about the middle of the the station at about 11.40,

haemorrhage. Witness emphasis. Innovation swept Hollywood. compound when the other two The first body that he founded that, the man was shot from Indians came in through the same was that of Mrs. Madgwick. the back and probably delayed gate. One of these latter two was lying on its back in the back two hours before he died. was the murderer. He was hokeilting 100m. The, hend was ing a rifle in his hand, and as | against the door of the room lead- soon as he appeared through the ing through to the bathroom. back gate he fired one shot with it in the direction of the pass age running outside the charge-

room.

A Weunded Indian. "The Station guard then fush ed into the Station and switched on the alarm bell.

sow the

"Might Have Lived."

Dwan was educated at Notre Dame, studying engineering, and the intricacies of sound reproduc- tion failed to alarm him. Later

In reply to Mr. Lindsell, Dr. he had a post-graduate course at Smalley suld that it was quite the Massachusetts Institute of possible that if assistance had ar-Technology and subsequently rived an hour earlier Chajja worked a term as an instructor Singh might have lived.

in electrical engineering..

t From the temperature of the body and the rigor mortis death must have taken place between five and six hours previously. In Mr. King: Can you say whether "South Sea Rose" reveals Miss the panels of the door leading the wound in Chajja Singh was Ulric as a half-caste, passion-mad from the bathroom

to this room caused by a rifle or revolver girl from the tropics plunged into were five bullet holes.

bullet? It is a biggish wound civilisation. A prominent sup- Terrible Injury.

but I really cannot say definite-porting cast lists a Jumber of murderer enter and turn up the On a small teapoy close to Mra. y. though my impression was favourite players, including inner stairs leading up to Ser-Madgwick's feet was a considerable that it was caused by a ride. Charles Blekford, Kenneth Muc- geant Madgwick's quarters. A portion of her brain. On a chair. The Foreman: Do you conside, Kenna, Tom Patricoln. Elizabeth that moment, I could also see the due east from this there was also that the wound in 543 (Dalip Patterson, Farrell Macdonald, Ilka other Indian. Constable B9. enter some brain, and beyond the chair. Singh) could have been other than Chase, and George MacFarlane. through the back-gate. He was

more brain. Eits of skull and self-inflicted?-It is quite impos- holding his hands to his stomach, brain were scattered all over the sible. It was self-inflicted and And on reaching point five or floor..

fired at absolutely point blank six feet from the Indians' cook-

The inner southern wall, the range. house, collapsed, rolling, about on one overlooking the compound.. the ground and groaning.

was all spattered with brain and From this the doctor sur-

I then heard another shot fir | blood.

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What is love? This question can What the Amah Saw.

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and philosophers alike have sung it amah, said that the Sergeant

describable. something which is informed that all Goods are being of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf

witness

was in the

ed Inside the Station in the direc-mised that Mrs. Madgwick must) (her master) went out at 2 p.m. called Love permeates throughout landed at their risk into the Godowns tion of the top of the inner stairs, have been standing with her left: and Mrs. Madgwick accompanied where the murderer had gone up. shoulder against the bathroom him to the gate and turned back the screening of "The Love Parade" and Godown Company, Ltd., at Kow He reappeared minute later door, and facing due north when At 5 p.m.

at the Central Theatre yesterday, loon, whence and/or from the whorses through the passage door and on she was shot from the other side other Sergeant's (Gardiner's) kit./One could not help feeling romantic delivery may be obtained,

Optional Cargo will be forwarded She was stooping cher, when she heard a shot fir- when seeing this superb production, unless notice to the contrary be given

and those whose romance had been before 14th instant. ad some where outside. She

No claims will to admitted after the ahattered must have yearned for came out of the kitchen and look the opportunity to live it over again, Goods have left the Godown, and all compound. The "boy" was also.

while to those young lives where

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to the back verandah of the first of the door. floor and then fired two shots in

very little at the time. my direction but over the roof. From the fact of the southern "I then saw my mistress 'appear wall being spattered it would ap through the inner door of the pear that the whole of the back pantry, the outer door of which, of Mrs. Madgwick's head leading into the dining room, was blown off from due north. On on the verandah, Witness saw an love had as yet played no part, the open. 1 waved her back and she one bullet could have done it.

feelings must have been one

withdrew. I closed the outer On the east wall of the Tooni

into the compound and then fall regret, because human nature is so door and went into the amah's were pleces of Mrs. Madgwick's to the ground. A little later she perversed that "it is better to have

All broken, chofed, and damaged cenatable loved and lost than never to have Goods are to be left in the Godowns, room and shut myself therein hair.

From this, the doctor rewith a rifle in his hand come out Then the all important question 19th inst

loved at all."

where they will be examined on thé, with the amah.

ceived the impression that the

at 10 am. by our sur. Shots in Bathroom,

body must have remained, upright overlooking the compound

of the passage into the verandah

She crops up.

"How to deal with woreyors Messrs. Goddard & Douglas.

No Fire Insurance, has been effect. "About three minutes later, and received two more bullets in

saw him fire two shots in the man?" Daughters of Eve are funny

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Бат another Indian

All claims against the vessel' must' be presented to the Undersigned on or or they will before the 20th inst not be recognised,

aome four or five shots were fir the head before it fell. It was direction of the bathroom..

She rentures, and Jeanette MacDonald, Bill of Lading will be countersigned ed in quick succession. The re-difficult to realise this but the went into her room with the who plays the leading role in this by ports came from the direction of evidence was there.

"boy", and shut the door.

talkie, is no exception, but she finds Just before the Indian with the her match in Maurice Chevalier,

the Sergeant's bathroom, the door of which was ajar: Five minutes

Third Bullet Fatal.

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On the mantelpiece there was rifle appeared she saw her mis- who as the prince consort, warms later, I again heard some more brain, also under the mantelpiece, treas at the dining room veran, his way to this woman's heart by shots, but could not say where which was in the corner of the dah door. Her mistress did not "treating her rough.”“ they were directed, as I had two walls. It was most probable speak to her but went into the A dashing and repressible hidden myself under the amah's that the third bullet was the one sitting room. Later she heard young man, Maurice knows the art PUBLIC AUCTIONS. bed and covered myself up. At which took away the back of the three more shots. intervals from that hour on, I skull, otherwise he could not un heard more shots fired...

"About dark I heard the cover Fover the wooden bucket in the native latrine.under me boing. lift

The inquiry was then adjourn. derstand why the body had reed until next Friday at 2 p.m. mained upright. The frat two bullets must have only skimmed the head, taking bits of hair to

ed and then replaced, the sound the east wall. Death was instan being repeated twice. At 8 | taneous.

o'clock or so, I heard the voice of Continuing, witness said that the Indian Lance Sergeant raised from examination made then, he

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Hong Kong, August 18, 1930.

The Coroner Even when the The body of Mrs. Madgwick, to ture was returned at an inquest and proves the truth of the saying Inspector General came in at 11gether with those of P.C.s. Dalip held on a woman who was killed by that one does not appreciate the o'clock you did not come out? Singh and Chajja Singh were a bus in Shanghai Street, Yaumati, value of what one possesses -until You still remained for another Identified at the Kowloon mor on July 22,

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Mr. Whyte-Smith conducted the realises this and then the fun starts. Instructions to sell by Public Witness explained that the The second body that witness inquiry, and explained to the Jury To see her chasing after her man action

ON Police party did not actually comisaw at the Station was that he thought in this case the from floor to floor and room to zoom

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days amok") which was lying an Its with. There was no question of depression. Saw Marderer! Clean Rifle back on the front verandah of the negligence, or recklessness on the The Love Parade is brimful of noon did you see any Indian.com Witness thought that death must ter of routine more or less that the also the redoubtable Lupino Lane Mr T H. King: On that afto first floor. He was then dead, part of the driver, and it was a mat- mirth and music. There is a sweet lilt in every song. Then there is atable cleaning his rifle? Wit have taken place less than five Inquiry was held. The present case ness: Between 4.80 and 4.40, that hours previously. The body was was one of those accidents which and his eccentric dancing. This afternoon I saw this Indian who warmer than

What of Mrs would setur to persons with little picture is one to be seen, and the management of the Central turned out to be the murderer, Madgwick, but rigor mortis was traffic sense. holding a rifle with bayonet un-more advanced. This could be The Jury agreed and returned the extending the showing of this ex- Theatre is to be congratulated or fixed by the flagstaf

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