CO129-216 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [5-6] — Page 180

Haring Fong, Jenny mani Yerning chrony 1214 $1

to take our ancestor's land, because

they said our great grandfather owed

front door.

law

Yung Ling Joi,

輝星樓

Cheong

and a crowd

of

others

coming

toward

昌梅

them

敏

C

芳權

the home. Young Aruni had a sword, Yerang Fong had a pistol. I do not know if the other people had arms. We all ran into the house and barred the doors. After a long time they began to knock on the front door and then they went to the back door and broke it open and I saw

芳權

Yering Fong fire a shot with the pistol.

It killed my aunt and

her children. I only saw

Yamnay

Fong fire once, but I heard other shots. We then opened the

front door and ran away. They

attacked us because they wanted

to take our ancestor's land.

I was present at a

meeting of the elders, I was looking

at them. That was four

years ago.

I am

now 18 years old. My father and

uncles were

present at the

meeting. The defendants were

present also. When we fled from

the house we scattered and reassembled in about 2

days.

There

were

400 people altogether in the home at the time of the attack. We had no arms. The attacking party

consisted of more than 40~ 50 people.

To me Evans (ver: Woston objects for the

meeting of the elders was

to make

Yeng

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