CO129-453 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [1-3] — Page 57

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Central Police Station,

November 12th.18.

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Lanoe Sergeant 67 McWalter staten:-

The woman Chau Ss Mui was brought to For 213

Station on Saturday afternoon the 9th. inst. On Sunday I went

on duty at 9 a.m. Between 10 and 11 a.m. the woman came back from

the Mortuary. She was allowed to sit in the corner of the Charge

Then he took the

Room. About 4 p.m. Inspector Sim came back.

woman and the Shanghai Interpreter (Mr. Wong King-kee) upstairs

to the Chinese Kess Room to take a statement. I was in the

Charge Room and its neighbourhood downstairs. At 7 p.m. I went

up to dinner. Inspector Sim, the Interpreter and the woman were

still in the Chinese Mess-room. The woman was left in this room

soon after 7 p.m. Inspector Sin went upstairs for his dinner.

About 8 p.m. the Interpreter came down and said he could not

wait any longer. He told me Inspector Sim was asleep in his own

quarters. At 9 p.m. I was sending out duties when Inspector Sim

came into the Charge Room. After a short conversation he went

About 5 or 10 minutes upstairs again saying he was going to bed.

after that I was going upstairs myself when I met Inspector Sim'a

two girls on the 1st floor landing. They asked me to get their

father to go upstairs. They said he was in the Chinese Mess-room

with a Chinese woman. The door was shut. I went through the

European Ness-room on to the veandah. I saw a light in the Chinese Hess-roon. I saw the woman laid out on the table.

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Inspector wasss tanding on the floor, having sexual intercourse with the woman. I had not heard the woman call out. When I saw them

she did not appear to be resisting.

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I went back and sent the two girls upstairs.

went down to the Charge Room. The woman came down soon after, and I saw that Inspector Sim had gone up to his quarters. woman said nothing. She sat down in the corner and went to sleep.

When I went upstairs and met Inspector Sim's

two daughters on the let. floor I was going to get my revolver as

I intended going out on patrol.

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