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that Er. X.V.Lo did suggest that the minor might
at least mempe hanging, and it is hardly to be
thought that my of these three young men could
have been so innocent as to imagine that a minor
who killed a man would get off altogether on account
of his age,
Christie and Zimmern then went and
os nsulted Mr. Davide om, Christie said that he did
not want any advise, seeing that he had no intention
of killing Fung, but that he seized the opportuni ty
in order to tell Zimmern of the scheme which he had
conceived that morning for swindling Cheng by pretending
to agree to murder Pung. This was perhaps confirmed
by Zimmern's vagueness as to why they went to see
Kr. Davids on. The visit to the third solišiter,
Kr. 6. Y. Kwan, an old schoolfellow of Ximɑern, is on
a different footing. Zimmern says that they went
to him to get, if possible, advice as to how to
carry out their swindling scheme, and that they
moked for such advice but did not get it. Mr.C.Y.
Kwan said that what he was consulted about was
whether a certain killing would be manslaughter.
That is the second difficulty.
It is, however, to
be observed that Mr. Kwan said that before Zimmern
asked the simple manslaughter question he had "put
the matter in a very complicated form" which he, Mr.
Kwan, "could not understand". It may, therefore,
be doubtful as to what "matter" he was putting te
Mr. Kwan in the earlier part of the conversation.
The defence in their cross-examination sug gen te d
that the prisoner was not the man who went with
Zimmern to Messrs. Lo & Lo, that the name given to
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