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support the story that two men ran west along

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Voeux Road, and that the revolver was thrown away by one

of them. I entirely failed to discover any ground for

this proposition. The revolver night equally well

have been thrown in from Wardley Street. The Chief

Justice made the same remark in his summing up. No

one to whom I have spoken has been able to see anything

in the point.

5. Another point, treated as a main point by the de-

fence, was that Larkins's marking of the plan disproved

Korgan's evidence that he (Morgan) had the prisoner in

Bight practically all the time from the Praya to Dea

Voeux Road.

Larkins saw three "pictures", the Euro-

pean and the firemen, the ricksha, and the Chinese run-

ning on the foothpath near the Bank garden. He marked

on the plan the position of these three "pictures". It

was suggested to him in cross-examination that taking

in these three pictures was only a matter of a moment

and he assented.

In commenting on this and on Lar-

marking of the plan, Mr. Jenkins assumed that

the three "pictures" were simultaneous, and that the

European must still have been at the position marked

kins'

X X X when the Chinese was at the position marked

This was an obvious fallacy.

After seeing the

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European at the point marked X X.X Larkins looked for

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before seeing the

According to Morgan the Chinese

a moment at the ricksha at

Chinese at E was running desperately,

X X X and

Further, "moment"

and the two positions marked

cannot have been simultaneous.

ie ambiguous, and the third picture

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