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was unable to get in to that flat. At her direction he left the parcel outside the door where the meat had earlier been left by an other delivery boy.
Following upon the discovery of this brutal crime, a widespread and intensive police investigation commenced. This involved, amongst other matters, the taking of some 900 sets of finger prints. It would appear that virtually everybody living or working in the immediate vicinity was questioned. In the course of these investigations, the accused himself was interrogated by the police. It would appear that he came into the police net solely by reason of the fact that he was employed as a part-time caretaker at a block of 12 flats known as 65 71, Chung Hom Kok Road situated about a hundred yards from the flat in which the murder took place. He was at the time of this event living in Western District, Hong Kong, with his wife and a small child and
he used to go daily to work at
those flats removing garbage, cleaning motor-cars and doing other
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jobs of the sort. According to hat he told the police, his usual hours of work were from about 6.30 a.m. until some time in the mid-morning. When questioned on the 26th of March about his movements on the 17th of that month, he told D.F.C. 7228 that he had completed his work that morning at about half past nine and had left the flat and returned home arriving there at about half past ten. His wife was then at work and he occupied himself with taking care of his daughter. Later his wife returned and he prepared food for the family and then took the child for a walk while his wife returned to work. He said that later on at half past five he and his wife went to the cinema. He was interviewed on a number of occasions subsequent to the 26th and on each occasion he gave substantially the same account of his movements on the day of the murder.
Presumably the police were checking upon the truth of the various accounts given to them by the many witnesses in the weeks following upon the event. Whether they had any reason to suspect the accused immediately after the murder it is not possible to say.
He was interviewed on the 26th of March, on the 6th of April and on the 8th of April and it would appear that on those occasions the police had no information in their possession to indicate that he had told them anything untrue. On the 11th of April however they interviewed a Mrs. Rafferty who, at about the time of murder, had been living in the
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