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that the girl was murdered between 1.30 and 2.00 p.m. that
day.
After the police had found the body, intensive investigations took place. Within the next ten days, the police interviewed some five hundred persons and took some nine hundred fingerprints. The prisoner was first interviewed on the 26th March. He made a statement that he
had finished work at about 10 a.m. on the 17th March and, in accordance with his normal practice after finishing · work, had returned to his home in the western district where he lived. His wife being in employment, he looked after their infant child, prepared a meal for his wife and himself and they had lunch together at about 1 p.m. In the afternoon he had taken the child for a walk and later that same afternoon he and his wife had gone to the cinema together. A further and more detailed statement was taken from the prisoner on the 6th April. On the 11th April, a Mrs. Rafferty, who lived at the block of flats where the accused was employed as a caretaker, made a statement to the police. As a consequence of that statement the police, on the 12th April, visited the premises where the accused lived in the western district, and later visited the premises in Chung Hom Kok Road which the accused occupied in his capacity as caretaker. In the presence of the prisoner, from both premises they took away a number of articles of clothing. Amongst the articles of clothing taken away from the western district premises was a pair of trousers; amongst those taken from the Chung Hom Kok Road premises were two woollen sweaters. The clothing worn by the deceased a white cotton tee-shirt with a multi- colour pattern imprinted on the front of it and a floral patterned pair of cotton trousers together with the cord found encircling her head and hair, were later subjected to
close visual and microscopical examination by the Government
Chemist, Mr. Edgley. He found a number of woollen fibres or fragments of fibres, on both the cotton shirt and the
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