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of Nam Hoi. My age is 41 years. My father is dead, my mother's maiden name was Chang. I have no brothers.

I am married, my wife's family name being Feng, and we have sons and daughters. I was formerly a student of medicine in the establishment of one Chia, called the Po Chi medical hall. Afterwards I opened a doctor's establishment in the Hua Wang street outside the West gate of Hsiang Shan district city, and am now practising as a doctor in Canton outside the South gate in the Ma Tow Chih Chich. I have been acquainted

with

Yang Chu Yun

Sien Yu Cheng

Shih Ching Yn

Chen Kuei Shih

Wang Tun Fu

Si Chi Tang

Teng Jui Nan.

In the 7th moon, date not remembered, but some time after the 10th day (4th August) I, having business, went to Hong Kong and met Yang Chu Yun at the office of the "Chinese Daily Press" in which paper Chen Kuei Shih had a share. Chen Kuei Shih and Shih Ching Ju

were with us at table and they put heads together and talked secrets. I asked Sien Yu Cheng about it, and Yang Chu Yun hearing this forthwith told Shih

Ching Ju, and they all said that I too was a man who could join in with them, that there was no need of reticence, and that they could tell me all. They invited me to sit with them, and they said that this present time of disorder in the north furnished just the opportunity to effect the assassination of all the officials of Kwang Tung Province and loot all the treasuries, and the houses of the rich in Canton,

thus at once acquiring wealth. I was smitten with fear and dared not consent with them. Then the party

broke up.

I at once returned to Canton and it was not till the middle decade of the 8th moon (Sep 4-13), exact day not remembered, that Shih Ching Ju arrived back from