CO129-541-11 Cheng Kwok Yau- trial judge's notes 1-1-1932 - 31-12-1932 — Page 113

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I would get him a knife or a dagger. I asked him what he

wanted a daɛɛer for. He said he wanted to

Matima Hotel to look for Zung. I said "It is so late nows

"where can i get a dagger er knife" He asked me to

accompany him over, but I persuaded him not to. He said

that I only talked a lot but that when it came to action

I me afraid (Repented – a soward). I had ne further

conversation with him. Ho dismissed me when we get to

No.50. I waited for half an hour outside someone elsets

house to see if he carried out nim threat. This may have

happened on the 16th er 17th Marobs It may have been the

early morning of the 17th March,

That swae day in the afternoon we met again and he

told me he bad been ovoz te the Enthan Hotel. I asked him

if he had seen Fang or Lai Ming Fui. He said that, through

a faked telephone he got them out of their rom to anawez

the onll, "and pointing my finger at them, I said, I wagn

"you to beware, and then I left." He said that. (Q. Xext

conversation?) I cannot definitely remember whether it was

that night or early on the morning of the 19th March that

I asked him about the twe mon that he had mentioned that

he had fellows shadowing fung. He had mentioned that on a

previous occasion, on the occasion when he asked me for a

dagger. 1 asked him how he knew that Fung was stopping on

the 4th floor of the Hathan Hotel. In reply he said he

had man shadowing him and knew from them that Yung was

living on the 4th floor.

Un the subsequent occasion I asked how mach he was

paying the two men and if he could trust them. He said,

Witness here speaking in Cantonese) "If there are lotus

'seeds in sweet water

to it there will be money

*pay.*

Inter retex.

That is the translation.

I do not understand the maan ing.

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