CO129-216 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [5-6] — Page 162

declared in the usual form in Chinese to the Magistrate. The attack took place about daylight on November 22nd 1883. The attack lasted about as long as it takes to eat a bowl of rice. After the attack, we had run out of the house and never separated at all until we came to Hongkong. He passed that right on the hill side. There were no others present at the ceremony except the defendants and I. They were all there.

(Marked) Kwok Jai Bang Lane Mui sworn, states: I am Young Sau residing in High Street, Sai Ying Pun. I am a Christian and wife of -- I have one child by my husband, it is a boy aged 10 years. I remember 22nd November 1880. I was in the large house in my village on that day. All the defendants were there, and their wives and children, and also some friends. I went there on the evening of 21st November 1880. I went there because there was a ceremony to be held in connection with mourning for my husband's grandmother who had died. Some men came and knocked at the front door, but did not get in. They then went to the back door, broke it open, and forced their way into the house. I do not know who they were.