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This mm has been previously promised to be paid on the success of the plot, One note was changed that same day at a money changer's in China Building and the others cubsequently. of the $2,000 he received, Chui will say, he paid Wong about $500 for having actually fired the fatal shot, and mude other payments to other members of the gang.
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Ao 7 have said before, two of these men - Chui and Ah To Nui will be called before you. The other leading members of the gang have disappeared and camot be loasted, including lau hi relf. It is the Crown care, Centlemen, that accused from the very moment that Jai Wing Tai left hin determined to be revenged on ung; that it must have been he who, through his Agent, procured the services of the Rsrassin; that it was the failure of "ong to fire a hot that induced the a caused to fall back on Zimmam and his friend being able to accumlish the design; that it led to his offer of 10,000 to Christie on the early morning of 21st at the Nathan Wotel and to his subsequent confideration of the possibility of the use of poison, and also to thore visits paid to the three different solicitors.
Ee suggest it as an inevitable inference that the procuring of thi« Cantonese gunman, Ah Kwan, brought about a renewal of confidence in the guren gang and a breakin; off of the negotiations with Zimern and Christie: that the whole conduct of the accused was wholly inconsdatent with his innocence and that the $2,000 blood money could have come ca no other source than the accused hiself. That, My Lord and Gentlemen of the Jury, is the case on which the Crown relius.
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