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would obtain for him some employment. On the 14th. of March Cheung Cho Ting returned to Hongkong. On the 16th. of March Cheung Cho Ting met Ng Luk by the morning boat from Canton and took him to 305 Des Voeux Road West. While at 305 Des Voeux Road West, Cheung Cho Ting treated this man Ng Luk with great hospi-
tality.
On the 20th. of March Cheung Cho Ting gave his two servants Kwok On and Wong So a letter and told them to go by the night boat to Canton to deliver the letter to a certain person named Lo Ko Shan. The two servants went to Canton and were detained there until the 22nd. of March when they were arrested by the Kwong Bip Ying Scldiers and put in custody in a police boat anchored near Yau Lan Mun, where they remained until the 25th. when they were transferred to a large police boat belonging to Lo Hi Po alias Lo Shang a Chinese
Official.
On the 24th. of March, Wong Mau the master of an undertakers boat, was engaged by Cheung Cho Ting to remove from Hongkong to Tai Ping near Eu Mun a dead body which was lying in the 2nd. floor of 305 Des Voeux Road West. Cheung Cho Ting desired Wong Mau to take the body away the same night but he refused. A coffin carrier Wong Kwong, who saw the body on the evening of the 24th. states that the man had evidently died a violent death. The body was black and foam was coming out from the mouth and nose. This man who had been a coffin carrier for over 7 years had never seen a body like this one. At about 8 A.M. on the 25th. of March, 4 coolies removed the body from the house. The body was bound up, placed in a large fish basket which was covered with a mat. The coolies took the basket containing the body and placed it on the Wing Li launch, which then steaned over to Stone Cutters Island, where
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