CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7] — Page 104

Chief Justice' Chambers,

Supreme Court, jongkong,

29th. karch 1922.

78

sir,

I have the honour to report to Your Excellency that Leung Wo was tried before me with a special jury on the 20th.- 24th. instant for the murder of Leung Yeuk Tong, and was con- victed 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.

The prisoner is of the coolie class, and the decereed man was a member of the Jack A Tai firm, coolie contractors: and it was stated in evidonce that the deceased arranged for casual labour to be supplied during the strike to the Taikoo Sugar Refinery. There was nothing to directly specciate the prisoner in the motive. He was, ne allywed in the witness box, a ship'■ cook on a ship trading between wongkong and Wuchow. Nothing appears to have been known to the prosecution of his antecedente, and it is probable that he was the active agent of a conspiracy to murder the deacased,

The murder took place on the Praya in the immediate vicinity of status Wharf at 11.45 A.s. on the 24th.February. The Crown's case reated very largely on the evidence of an eye witness captain worzan, Master of the $.5. "Kwong

Ying" although his narrative was confirmed in material

particulars by other eye witnes800.

His Excellency

Sir Edward stubba, K.0.0.3.

Governor 0.