CO129-528-11 Incident at Lok Ma Chau Police Station 14-11-1930 - 14-11-1930 — Page 55

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dining room two more, and on the front verandah 5 more shells

and an empty clip. In the back sitting room where Mrs. Madgwick's

body was found there were quite a number of bullet holes in the

At the base of the walls and fragments of bullets lay about. flagstaff I found a clip containing 4 live rounds and also two

live rounds in the grass near by. in the grass also was the

Bayonet in scabbard produced, each marked B.543.

At the edge of the slope to the S.W. of the Station I picked up

three more empty shells, and also a piece of cloth and pair of clogs (in Court) which were identified as property of B.543.

On the green some 9-10 feet from the compound wall and to the west of the gate, I found another pair of clogs and a black turban (in Court) which were identified as the property of B.9.

I observed what appeared to be blood stains on the outer side of

the compound wall near that point. I found no other revolver

shells outside the compound. I examined the ground carefully.

Had 6 revolver shells been lying near the S.V. corner I could

not have missed some of them. Inside the compound and outside

the back door I found 6 empty revolver shells close together,

and one empty rifle ammunition clip. 1 found no shells or live

I examined round in the passage between back and front doors.

the large barrack room and found 14 empty rifle shells, two live

rounds and six empty revolver shells, also 5 rifle ammunition

clips.

When I entered that night the back door of the Station was

locked; the barrack room door opposite the charge room was

closed but not locked.

I handed over all the empty shells I had found, together with oth

other shells I had received from the D.I... to the Police

Armourer. There were, I think, about 90 of them, including 16

revolver shells.

Jury No X X.

ad. T. Murphy

Bd. R. E. Lindsell

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