CO129-429 - Public Offices & Others - 1915 — Page 507

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Dr. Hinckley - Did you ask how that partition sama to

be there? He told me that he

ordered from Tah Hang.

paid p17 for it, and that it was

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Did you think it would be satisfactory for your

purposer

Nielsen,

i did not make up my mind, but I went to report te

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That did he say? He said it was not satisfactory, were there arrangements about the tins and planke made directly by Nielsen with Ng Vung-sing? Xo,

He

witness was then cross-examined by Vr, lemALIO – said he first spoke to kg Vung-sing about the tenth day of the eighth moon, when he asked him if he intended returning to India, A friend had told him that lg had previously been there, Ng said he would go, and witness then told him that he had something for him if he would take it,

Kr. Newman - Now; when did Ng first ask you to go and see the deskt I cannot remember exnetly, but it was one or two days after the interview, ng asked me to go to Tah Hang's,

what was it that you had said to him which made him nak you to go and see a desk with a false back? Because I told him I had a foreign friend name Kialsen, who had some medisine in tins to be exported to a foreign country, and he wanted a receptacle to put the tine in,

why did the question of a desk come up? Have you ever seen medicine pasked up in a desk? Ng suggested it to me,

I put it to you that you told Ng that he was to smuggle something out of the country, secretly convey, if you

liket 10.

Then why did you think that the desk would de to

Barry something in? kg asked me if it would serve my purpose,

Why not have a pɛoking ease, and not go to the expense

of a desk, painted and stained? The desk was made more than

a month before I appresshed ig on the subject.