CO129-541-11 Cheng Kwok Yau- trial judge's notes 1-1-1932 - 31-12-1932 — Page 60

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at a later date, a Cantonese rawned Ah Kwan (number 11).

These two were engaged in turn to do the killing, and this

killing was fimlly accomplished by Fong Nam Sheung on the

evening of 24th March, after the failure of a similar plot

in the game place, under similar circumstances, five days

previously, that is to say, the nineteenth March,

Now, the evidence regarding this crime falls, I

think, into three divisions which though they overlap to

quite an extent -can yet be kept clearly defined.

Firstly, there is the evidence of motive,

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will be mainly the evidence of the girl, lai ding Fai her self,

corroborated in certain material particulars by other evidence.

She also will give evidence of the actual circumstances surrounding the death of the deceased.

Secondly, there will be evidence of the accused'

deliberate desire and intention to get George Fung put out of

the way by one means or another. That will be mainly the

evidence of two Burusian witnesses, Simmern and Christie,

especially the latter.

Third comes evidence of the actual plot engineered

by the accused's own chauffeur and of its successful issue in

the murder, and of the complicity of the accused therein.

First, then, as regarde motive, The girl, lai,

will tell you that she first came to know the accused in 1928

in which year she came down from Shanghai to Hong Kong as a

menber of a theatrical troupe of which her father was lanager.

They gave performances in Hong Kong and Canton and later passed

on to the Straits Settlements.

The accused seems to have been mary much taken with

the girl from the first meeting, inagauch as very shortly

after their arrival în “inganore he followed the troupe down

there and lived in the same house as the girl and her father.

Not

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