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European. The European the taller man appeared to be walking from the fast along Queen's Road the other appeared to be standing
looking down I am not certain what he did. I think the big
European seized him. I have never been certain of it. He may not
have touched him. I had a clear view up Wardley Street. I could see other people but these 2 stood out in my memory and the man I was
chasing. Those 3. Nothing else happened. I kept my eye on him
until he was stopped. It appeared to me that 2 Europeans only stopped him. It may have been one only and if so I don't know which. I have no recollection of seeing anyone running except the prisoner. I see Mr. Green. If he is the right man I first saw him standing over the man. Assuming he is the man who walked across with his hands like this (Explains extending hands) I first saw Mr. Green on that morning a few feet from the railing ner the City Hall in Wardley Street. I saw him there when I was running up the street. I don't know that gentlemen sitting over there,
In crossing Des Voeux Road I saw nobody else running. I only saw coolle running. I have no recollection of seeing Mr. Yvanovitch. I saw that gentleman Mr. Pereira he was standing over the man on the pavement by the Hongkong Bank.
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(Deposition put "I saw the bigger European" etc.) I was certain I am doubtful today as I heard the other witness Pereira
say at the Magistract he had arrested him. By the Bank garden where steps are up I saw no body running nor on the road. By the statue I saw no body running but one man. I don't remember seeing anybody but Chinese coolies. I saw nobody running between Queen's Road and Praya except one man, I did not see the man's face on the Praya. He was wearing dark clothes. The reason I saw the man who was stopped was the man I was chasing was that he is the man I saw run- ning. (In reply to Counsel as "to what he was thinking about at first" witness says jocularly) I was wondering at first whether I had won any money in the sweep.
The firing of shot, the dropping of ricksha and falling out of man were instantaneous. The man ran at once. I should not have sug- pected him but that he had fired a revolver. Taking the whole combination of circumstances and seeing that he ran I assumed he
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