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CHIEF JUSTICE'S CHAMBERS,
S. HONG
COURTS OF JUSTICE,
HONG KONG.
AUG 29 184) Ford
No
27th August, 1940.
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Your Excellency
I have the honour to report that yesterday
afternoon I passed sentence of death on a Chinese male, agod
about 47, named Yiu Fai who was found guilty of the murder of one wong Ka Yan in the Argyle street Internment Camp in
the early morning of 30th May.
Both the condemmed man and the murdered man
were intered Chinese soldiers and both of them occupied
bunke in Hut No.2 in the Camp. The evidence of the Crow witnesses went to show that shortly after 5 a.m. the condemned man was seen standing beside the bed of the docoased man: that the deceased man shouted 'save life', leapt from his bed and ran, pursued by the condorned man: that the deceased man who was bleeding collapsed on the ground, and that the condemned
man had a lon; knife in his hand.
The deceased man had sustained five wounds,
three of them serious, and his intestines wore porforated in two places. In spite of an urgent operation he died the same day. The defence before no was that the deceased man was the
that aggressor and incidentally the bigger and stronger man, he attacked the condeɛned man who ran to his own bunk pursued by the deceased who beat him so severely that the condemned
man lost consciouongee and does not know what he did. atory, told yesterday for the first time, was in direct and obvious conflict with previous statements made by the condemned man and was entirely inconsistent with the evidence of the only eye-witness Lo Yea, I put the case aa fully and clearly as I could to the Jury who returned a verdict of guilty of murder, but coupled with their verdict a very
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