CO129-528-11 Incident at Lok Ma Chau Police Station 14-11-1930 - 14-11-1930 — Page 32

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first thing we have orders to do when an emergency arises.

had my boots on before the alarm went. Before I ran in I did not

say anything to B.722, nor he to me, nor again when he passed

my door.

I reached the big barrack room before B.722. Going

through the passage I was right on his heels and saw him run

and switch on the alarm. B.722 came straight into the barrack

room from the alarm; he did not go anywhere else first. He was

not in the room when I fired my first 5 shots. He came in, roused

the 2 officers there and then went out again. Those 2 were

aroused when B.543 was still some distance from the compound

outside. I have had practice alarms at Lok Ma Chau. On the

alarm my post is on the front verandah outside the charge room.

I did not go to my post on this occasion. I did not see B.722

fire any shots, but heard shots in the passage, after I had fired

my first five, that sounded like revolver shots. The wooden

shutters on our windows were open all the time. At no time did

I see B.543 in the passage or in the charge room."

To Jury X X. "I was only 2 seconds in the big barrack room

ahead of B.722. L.8.B.349 and P.C.B.315 were there still asleep.

The shutters on the west side windows were not fully open, and

hence got bullets through them. One half of each of the double

windows was open."

sd. Gurdit Singh

sd. R. E. Lindsell

P.M.

2nd witness C. S. Madgwick recalled.

"When I sent P.S.B.135 off for help, I took back my revolver

from him and also kept his rifle. When I started interchanging

rifle shots with B.543, I put down the revolver beside me, and

forgot it when I retired again to the married quarters."

ød. C. S. Madgwick.

Adjourned to 22nd August at 2.15 p.m.

sd. R. E. Lindsell

P.M.