CO129-474 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [1-4] — Page 580

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Chief Justice' Chambers,

Supreme Court, Hongkong,

28th March, 1922.

I have the honour to report to Your Excellency

that Leung Wo was tried before me with a special jury on the

20th

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24th instant for the murder of Leung Yeuk Tong, and

was convicted and sentenced to death.

I forward herewith the notes of evidence taken by

me at the trial together with the Magisterial depositions.

The murder took place during the period of the

recent strike, and it aroused much interest, the alleged motive being incidental to the strike.

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The prisoner is of the coolie class, and the deceased man was a member of the Jack ▲ Tai firm, coolie contractors; and it was stated in evidence that the deceased arranged for casual labour to be supplied during the strike to the Taikoo Sugar Refinery. There was nothing to directly associate the prisoner in the motive. He was, he alleged in the witness box, a ship's cook on a ship trading between Hongkong and Wuchow. Nothing appears to have been known to the prosecution of his antecedents, and it is probable that he was the active agent of a conspiracy to murder the deceased.

The murder took place on the Praya in the immediate vicinity of Status Wharf at 11.45 A.M. on the 24th

February.

His Excellency

Sir Edward Stubbs, K.UM.G..

Governor,

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