CO129-528-11 Incident at Lok Ma Chau Police Station 14-11-1930 - 14-11-1930 — Page 63

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servants attached to the Station.

Lance-Sergeant Madgwick

lived on the upper floor of the Station, the other

European Lance-Sergeant also had two rooms on the upper

floor. The ground floor was occupied by native Police.

Shortly after 2.00 p.m. on the 21st July, Lance-

Sergeant Madgwick, accompanied by one Chinese Detective,

left the Station on duty, both armed according to regula-

tions with revolvers only. At 3.00 p.m. the other

European Lance-Sergeant, taking the Chinese crew and one

Indian Constable, proceeded on duty in the Police Motor-

boat on the Shum Chun river. One Chinese Detective was

on leave.

The Indian married quarters are about two hundred

yards distance from the Station itself. The quarters

were occupied by an Indian Sergeant (Police Sergeant 135

Mastan Singh), and a married Constable. Throughout the

afternoon, Mrs. Madgwick was alone on the upper floor of

the Police Station. Apart from the Station Guard of one

Indian Constable, the Indian Police in the Station that

afternoon were off duty. Two of them were asleep: the

remainder were in the Station Compound talking and playing

cards.

At 4.00 p.m. Indian Police Constable B.722

Gurbaxsh Singh took over duty as Station Guard. Νο

-out incident of any kind had occurred through the afternoon.

At 4.00 p.m. Indian Constable 543 Dalip Singh was sitting

in the Compound talking to another Constable. At 4.30 p.m.

he was seen to enter the Station and was heard to remark

that when Sergeant Madgwick returned he (Indian Police

Constable B. 543) would ask for short leave from Station.

The man was then unarmed.

At 4.55 p.m. the Station Guard, who was at the

back of the Station, heard a shot fired from the West side

of the Station. He could not see who fired. The Station

Guard