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Ile is now
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to ask the Court to grant him a free pardon. Ile undergoing a sentence of imprisonment in gaol for possession
of a firearm.
As to the other man, number 10, he will deny actual complicity in the commission of the murder.
Whether you
believe him or not in that respect, his evidence will
corroborate in many material particulars that of the chauffeur Chui. The Crown admits - da we are bound to nêmit - that
these two are dangerous and worthless acoundrels, but their evidence as to how the murder was actually planned and committed is corroborated in so any other particulars by other witnesses that we suggest it is worthy of credence,
This brings me to the third and final part of my opening. The actual plot that was carried to a successful conclusion was hatched long before Christie and Zimmern came into the picture, on about 23rd February, which you will remember was the very day after the day that Lai Hing Fai left accused and threw in her lot with the deceased.
About that day, the man Chui will tell you, he went
to an address in Wanchai, number 26 Tíu Bah Street at which the Hong Kong Hotel bus driver was living and he there met the accused's chauffeur Lau and has some conversa ion with him.
All three of these men are natives of Shanghai: Chui already knew Lau slightly as the driver of the Austin Seven number 4 and the Studebaker number 2002. The next day Lau met Chui
in Chater Road on the war etand, gave him some food in a tea
house and had a further conversation with him.
Some days
later the two met again, and after visiting 26 Yiu Vah Street and an opium divan, they met about & o'clock by arrang en en t the game evening at the Star Ferry and proceeded over to Kowloon. Apparently by chance, on that very ferry was the deceased, Beorge Fung, and Lau took the opportunity of pointing
him out to Chui.
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