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After crossing the tram line opposite the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank the fugitive turned into Wardley Street and proceed up that street between the Hongkong Bank and the City Hall, and at the Bank corner of that street he was knocked down and
arrested by Mr. Pereira, a gentleman who had heard shouts of "hold him" emanating from the tramway line.
Yr. Pereira with the assistance of others held the pri
soner and handed him over to the custody of the Police,
Captain Morgan was reverely cross-examinad and insisted
that he saw no other men running in front of him from the time
the prisoner left the vicinity of the ricksha until he was
caught at the top of wardley Street; and that, whilst he lost sight of him momentarily as he turned into Wardley Street, he was positive that the man he saw running in that street was
the same man te he had chased from the Praye.
Er. Green, Superintendent of the Botanical and Forestry Department, was going along Des Voeux Road in a ricksha by the
Pank and seeing the chase jumped out of the ricksha followed
in the chase and saw the arrest, being some 15 feet behind
Captain Morgan, de wae equally emphatic that no other Chinese
were running up Hardley Street, and that he did not lose sight
of the fugitive after he crossed the tram line in Des Voeux
Road until he ran into the arms of Vr. Pereira at the end of
Wardley Street,
Mr. Pereira, whose conduct in the circumstances was most Teritorious, 1150 positively averred that no other man was running up Wardley Street in front of the prisoner.
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chambered revolver was found shortly afterwards in
the corner of Hongkong Bank garden on the Des Voeux Road side
of wardley Street. In regard to this Captain Morgan stated that
he did not see it thrown by the accused, or that in fact he saw anything in his hand at any part of the chase. The defence
strongly relied on this and called 2 Chinese witnessce who were
standing on the Hon-kong Bank new building, and who swore to
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