CO129-541-11 Cheng Kwok Yau- trial judge's notes 1-1-1932 - 31-12-1932 — Page 131

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Cheng's affairs. Why should I tell any boss's affairs

to anyone! I was employed as a bodyguard.

had a reason.

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He must have

Christie may have been his enemy • Cheng

told me not to speak to anyone about his affairs.

I do

not remember mentioning the name Lai Ming Fai to Christie,

or of Fung.

Q.

Yet Fung and Lai Ming Fai were there.

A.

I did not know it.

(19th March "leave it to me") Q. It was then that

-

you suggested to Cheng that Fung should have a hiding.

A. No.

Q. Then you did nothing, after asking Cheng to leave

it to you.

A. I got the boys together on his instructions.

It is entirely false that I engineered the plot

to beat up Fung. Christie & I did not work it out while

we were staying at the Nathan Hotel. It is not true that

we wanted to get him involved in an assault on Fung.

Q.

Witness

Cheng did not want to agree but at last agreed

No -

told to listen to the question) but only

on condition that nothing more was to happen than that

Fung's face was to be slapped.

A. That is not so.

Q. Did he stipulate that the only thing that was to

happen was the slapping of Fung's face.

A. He wanted to slap Fung's face to save his own.

Q. Did you tell the magistrate (Deps. p.64)

"all he wanted......slap".

"all

him.

A. Yes, that is true.

Q. Cheng was reluctant and you had to telephone for

A.

He told me to go first because he had to finish a

game of snooker. I had to telephone for him. I sat as

host at the dinner, with Cheng's consent. I had a girl

There were other girls there. The girls did not

there.

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