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Unparalleled scenes were witnessed at the Central Magistracy yesterday when an inquest into the circumstances attending the death of Ng Yun Fong, scion of a well-known local" Chinese family, who died after being found in the bedroom of a woman in a Kennedy Road flat on July 19 with severe stab wounds, was opened with Mr. W. Schofield äitting as Coroner.

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that the Emergency Unit under Inspector G. A, Stimson was rush- rd to the scene and with their arrival, some semblance of order was restored. The Courtyard was cleared while many who had managed to squeeze into the Courtroom in the confusion to ob tain standing room where avail, able, were made to leave.

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Addressing the jury, the Coroner When the Coroner took his seat said the inquest was to clear up at 2.30 p.m., the atmosphere in the the circumstances attending the reom was stifling: He at

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