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VERDICT OF CORONER'S JURY.

An Emphatic Recommendation.

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Evidence by the Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, C.M.G., Inspector- General of Police, closed the inquiry into the Lok Ms Chan tragedy Mr. Wolfe said that the amok. at Lok Ma Chau was the fourth affair of its kind in the Police Force since 1897. He maintained that it was impossible to make provisions to guard against recurrences, because these affairs were rare and the circumstances of each vary greatly. Speaking on the question of arming Oriental members of the Force, Mr. Wolfe said that it was a case of either trusting the men or giving them no arms at all, and he emphasised that their duties were such that it was necessary to arm them.

After the Coroner had addressed the Jury at length, covering the whole scope of the inquiry and the evidence heard, the Jury re- tired and after an absence of half an hour, returned with a verdict the effect of which was murder and suicide against Dalip Singh, They also made a recommendation that at all outstations a European Officer should always be present, even if this involved augmentation of the European staff.

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There were quite a number of The first witness to be called- when the Inquiry was resumed bullet holes in the walls, is that REDUCED THROUGH TICKETS TO EUROPE VIA U.S.A. VARYING was Mr. T. Murphy, A.S.P. it? Yes, and in the window of of the room facing the detached Second Assistant Director

He said Criminal Intelligence. that on July 21 he followed the L.G.P. to Lok Ma Chau and ar- Thursday, 18th September. rived there at about 11 p.m. The Sunday, 28th September, rescue party was then assembling under the I.G.P., and witness join- Wednesday, 24th September. LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM via

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Proceeding. Mr. Murphy said that the piece of cloth from the turban was partly covering the trigger guard of the rifle, The trigger guard was against Dalip Singh's right leg. The muzzle of the rifle was pointing toward the upper part of the body. It bore the number B543. Witness had the rifle examined in his presence and it contained one empty round of ammunition in the breech, and one live round in the magazine. Both these rounds were produced. Mr. Murphy added that he retain. ed the rifle and later handed it over to Lance-Sergeant Scott,

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He (Mr. Murphy) stayed at Lok Ma Chau Police Station all night, and at daylight on July 22 he examined the part of the build. ing occupied by Sergeants Madgwick and Gardiner. On the bath room floor, between the outer door from the verandah and the Shanghai bath tub, he found three empty rifte shells. Two other empty shells were found in the dining room, and five similar shells on the front verandah, to- gether with an empty rifle am- munition clip. Fragments of lenden bullets were found by the witness in the sitting room.

Brennan that he had picked up any shells. Apparently three more than the 13 they had heard, of had turned up, and he wished to know if it were not possible to trace where they came from.

Mr. King said that there were many persons engaged on a search. about the place and with the ex- ception of those found in the bath) room, the shells all got mixed up, and it was not possible now to tell where each had come from.

The Coroner said that in fair- ness to B722 they ought to find! out where these three revolver shells were picked up. It was im- material where the rifle shells were found.

Mr. King promised to try to trace them.

Later Mr. King reminded the; Coroner that in his evidence Lance-Sergeant Youe had said that he had fired his revolver.

Coroner: Yes, he fired

over the wall near the

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round latrine.

Mr. King: And then he emptied his revolver just inside the gate. Lance-Sergeant J. E.. Scott, Police Armourer, was the next witness. He said that he received the rifle marked B543 on July 30 from Mr. Murphy. On August ? Mr. Murphy also handed him 81 empty rifle shells.

Speaking about the rifle, the Sergeant said that he examined it and found that it had recently been fired. He also examined the' face of the bole and discovered a

peculiar suip of metal near the striking hole.

Coroner: Which would cause!

the pin not to strike straight?. Yes. It would also leave a mark on the face of the percussion cap.

Mr. Murphy said he then went

Six Different Rifles Used. outside the station and searched

Proceeding, the Sergeant said the ground. At the base of the that he examined the shells and flagstaff he found a rife ammuni- found that 14. (including the one tion clip containing four live taken from the breech) had been rounds. Two other live rounds he fired from the rifle marked B543. picked up from the grass nearby. He tested this rifle by firing 16 A bayonet in its scabbard was also rounds from it and found that all found in the grass near the flag- the shels bore similar marks to staff. Both bore the number those on the 14 shells he had re- ferred to. The other 67 'shells, B543..

witness said, were fired from five different rifles.

Searching further, Mr. Murphy found, between the wooden seat and the head of the slope to the

Coroner: Only five, are you south-west of the flagstaff, three quite sure 7-Yes. more empty rifle shells, and close Interest in yesterday's pro- to these he picked up a pair of ceedings was centred on the Hon wooden clogs and a coloured cloth Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, C.M.G., In- which were identified by B722 spector-General of Police, who (the station guard on the after- was the last witness in the in- noon of the tragedy) and other quiry.

as belonging to Dalip

Replying to the Coroner, Mr. Indians

Wolfe said that he had been Chief Singh.

About nine or ten feet from the of Police for the past 12 years. wall to the west of the compound There were, he said, no satisfac- gate Mr. Murphy found another tory Police records before his pair of clogs and a black turban time. When he took over there which were identified as belonging was a lot of documents in the to B9 (Chajja Singh, the com- correspondence office, but they rade who was murdered by the were not properly filed, and he in- "amok"). Witness also observed stituted a new system of keeping something like blood stains on the records. close to where the clogs and the outside wall of the compound,

black turban were found.

No Revolver Shells. Coroner: Did you find any other shells outside the com- pound? No, neither empty, nor live ones.

You made an exhaustive search ?—Yes.

If there had been six revolver shells there you could not have missed some of them? No, un less they were thrown down the slope.

satisfactory record before when? Coroner: You say there is no

---Before 1919.

Mr. Wolfe said that he would

qualify his statement to the ex- tent of saying that there wera certainly criminal records, but not record of what he thought the Coroner wanted cases of amok. However, from the records as they were and oral information given to him, which he believed was authentic, he was able to say that the Lok Ma Chau affair was the fourth of its kind since 1897.) If they were ejected by the

Three Previous Amoks south-west corner, I mean?-By. He learned that in 1897 a Sikh the tree which had been referred constable fired at an Inspector at the Central Station. He missed to by witnesses, No.

Givling further evidence, Mr. him and was afterward shot down,

The next affair was Murphy said that in the com-

(Continued on Pape 5.) pound, just outside the back door of the station he found six empty revolver shells. close together, and one empty rifle ammunition clip.

Coroner: No' shells were founud in the passage by the charge room?-No empty shell or live ammunition was found there.

Resuming his account of his round of Inspection, Mr. Murphy said that he examined the large barrack room and there found 14

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