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Apparently it led also to the mo- Royal Engineers, was a passeng- Col. É. H. M. Clifford, of the mentous conference between Hitler and General Franco on theer in the car, which was pro- Franco-Spanish border on Wed-ceeding along Nathan Road to- nesday which had probably been Whitfield Barracks. He told the wards the Star Ferry from prepared by Himmler, the Gesta Court that when about 100 yards po chief on his trip to Madrid, from the junction and especially by the Spanish Road, he saw two Chinese wo- Foreign Minister, Senor Serrano Suner, when he visited Berlin anden crossing the street without Rome.

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way. The car was doing about 25 m.p.h. and from the spot, but one slowed down about 10 yards women was knocked down..

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DOUBLE MURDER:

FARM

HAND ACCUSED

AT THE CRIMINAL Sessions this morning, be- fore the Chief Justice, Sir, Atholl Macgregor, Tai Koon-hing, farm hand, was charged with the mur- der of Ho Wan, farmer at Ling Tin Village -on September 22.

Mr. J. Reynolds, assisted by! Next morning, Ho Wan had Inspector L. R. Whant, is for the breakfast at about 9 a.m, while prosecution, while Mr. G. She. his uncle was in bed reading his instructed by Mr. A. S. K, Lau, ispaper. About 10 or 15 minutes. for the defence,

later, his uncle's wife saw Ho The jury is composed of Messrs Wan leave the house and shortly S. Sheehan (forenian). H. D. Bid-after heard shouts of "Save life." well, Tso Hing-king, H. A. Roza, She ran towards the pig siy, S. Benjamin, J. G. Rucha and and there saw accused with a Long Wai-tin.

chopper In his hand striking at Mr. Reynolds, for the Crown, Ho Wan. He threatened her and said that the dead man and his entered the front door of thei uncle were farmers and lived in house. Here she heard her hus- a house in Ling Tin Village, Both band crying. for help and then were married but the families oc-saw accused leave the back door; cupied diffèrent parts of the and make off for the hills,

house.

Deceased, Ho Wan, employed one foki, while the uncle, Ho Ka- chan, employed two, one of them the accused,

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Met By Crowd

In the house, Ho Ka-chan was found to be severely wounded. A watchman, armed with a revolver, I Accused was engaged in tho heard the alarm, and went up the Spring and worked until Septemhill. He found a man blowing a ber 21, the date of the incidents. whistle and, some distance away, He generally had his meals with accused with the chopper in his the family of his employer, but hand. slept in a matshed in front of the dropped the

Under threats, accused house. On September 20, Cheung away.

chopper, but ran Chui-tai, wife of Ho. Wan, went crowd and taken into custody.

He was met by another to bed at about 9 p.m. Her two- In his first statement to the Po- year-old daughter slept with

lice, accused said he was dismiss- her. At about midnight, she wased for nothing, and when form aroused and saw accused in her ally charged, said that he had room, carrying a kerosene lamp; been accused of teasing Ho Wan's He approached her bed, pulled wife.

aside the mosquito nets and pul

his hands on her breast, Sho

Heavy Blows

called out for her husband. Ace Dr. Tai, of Kowloon Hospital, cused waited a while and then said he performed a post-mortem went outside.

She. Keard her on Ho Wan and Ho Ka-chan, The husband asking accused what bearst man had several wounds on was doing."

the head, shoulder and neck ex- Did Not Want To Go tending the whole length of the neck. The spinal column and Next morning, accused turned cord had been cut through, up for his morning meal as usual. Heavy blows were required to In- The woman was washing dishes flict these wounds.; when she heard Ho Ka-chan, her An internal examination show husband's uncle, tell accused that cd that he had an enlarged spleen, he could no longer he employed weighing eight and two third owing to his behaviour. He was pounds, almost 50 times the nor paid off and told to leave. Some mul size, This, withess said, was time later, the uncle and the wife the heaviest he had ever weighed. saw accused still in the mat The spleen was not ruptured, shed. He refused to leave' and

He also examined the body of nothing-was-dene then

Ha Ka-chan. There were a num Later in the day, accused's ber of head wounds. mother was sent for and she per-, Further evidence, was not tak- suaded him to leave.

en regarding the uncle as accus-

Outside the matshed, Ho Wan sed is charged with the single met, accused and smacked twice.

him murder.

Case is proceeding.

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