Enclosure No.1.
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Your Excellency,
19th September,
1934.
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I have the honour to inform Your
* xorilebay that i today passed sentence of death on s
young Chinese zale of 27 years of age named Keung The
Fan for the murder of a young woman named Keung Sơn Lân,
20 years of age.
The facts were almoɛt entirely undisputed
and may be stated quite briefly.
The condemned man end the deceased girl
sere natives of the same vills
*
and after she came to
Hong Kong they apparently cohal ited here, there being some
*vicenon that the bore nim two children. Farly this year
the condemned can left mag Kong for Canton to study
Theology and after his departure the girl went to live with
manı called Im Chun at 311
Chi Kok Road.
12in accused returned to Hong Kong about the
end of June and zuoceeded in ascertaining where Keung au
Lin was living, and just prior to 20th July he paid three
visits to Lai Chi Kok Head in an attempt to induce Im Chun
to leave the girl. In these attempts the accused failed.
On the night of the 20th July about 8.30 p.m.
the accused left the mission house in which he had been
living, stating that he was going back to his sountry,
crossed the harbour, and arrived between 11 p.m. and mid-
night at the Gospel Tabernacle which is only a short
distance from Lai Chi ok Road. To the caretaker of the
Tave.nacie de explained that he was going to Canton next
morning, and asked permission to spend the night there,
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which was granted. The caretaker went to bed leaving the
Rocused eitting up.
The accused before crossing the harbour had
provided himself with a rope and a strong knife.
No.241 Lai Chi Kok Road is in process of
reconstruction, and it is possible to climb the staire
of that empty house and proceed by an eary scaffolding
onto the roof whence there is unimpeded access to the
roof of No.211.
Between No.211 and No.213 on the roof there
is a fence of iron stanchions with barbed wire strands, and
the accused appears to have tied his rope to two of these
stanchions, lowered it into the backyard of 211, and then
by means of the rope, entered the rear cubicle, in whion
In Chun and Keung Sau Lin were sleeping, through the
open window.
Both Im Chun and Keung Ɛau Lin were murdered,
death in each care being due to a single savage knife
thrust into the heart.
Keung Sau Lin was found lying on the bed and
Im Chun had staggered to his feet and fallen on the floor.
Both of them were naked.
The accused man after slaying his two victims
made his way by the rope to the yard of 811, but was unable
to open the gate leading into the scavenging lane.
appears then to have climbed the rope about twenty feet,
breaking a window as he passed, and then to have scrambled
over a bamboo fence and dropped into the yard of No.213.
One of the inmates there had left six large earthen ware
pots up against the wall, and accused in his fall broke
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