CO129-550-7 Rex v. Ng Loi Yuen- appeal to Privy Council 1-1-1934 - 31-12-1934 — Page 166

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after the boy, I saw a little girl come down and a Chinese

male behind her. It looked to me as though he was saving her

he was so near to her. I got the impression he was trying

to save her because he was so close. Then I saw the Chinese

washed up against the side wall and fall back into the water.

Then I lost sight of him.

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I moved round and then I saw a little boy not the one I had

seen in a coolie's arms. It was not the same Chinese as I

saw in the nullah. Later I saw the little girl in a soldier's

arms

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he had brought her to the bridge taking her home.

I then went down Murray Path with Mrs. Vincent. There were some

soldiers at the entrance to the tunnel and I stopped to look

I saw a Chinese male being brought out of the tunnel. I said

at once, "That's the man who was behind the little girl."

(Mr. Lim objects to the remark as inadmissable.)

That man looks like that one points to spectator.) I cannot

be sure I can't identify him now. I could not be sure if

it was deft or not. I was quite sure on that day that the man

brought out the tunnel was the man who went down the nullah

behind the little girl.

X X Mr. Lim. I recognised him by his dress. He was full in

the face. He had high checkbones. After the whole business

I went on shopping.

I went immediately after. I think that

the Chinese had a nasty bang on his side when he was washed

against the wall of the nullah. I could not say if he could

have scrambled out of the water then or not. I saw nobody

get out of the water. He was coming down the nullah in a

sitting position with apparently one hand on the bottom.

I don't know where Mrs. Vincent was.

Re-ex. Mr. Fraser. The top of the man's dress was white and the

bottom dark, the trousers were up above his knees. Immediately

after I remained with Mrs. Vincent, we went from Murray Path to

the Dairy Farm and to Lane Crawfords. de had intended to go