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have tea with Wah Tsai at the James Bond Tea House at Nathan

Road! There, for the first time, Your Petitioner saw Woo

Ming Sang, the deceased, and also some policemen in plain-

clothes. Wah Tsai at that time mentioned that the deceased

was a member of the 14K Triad Society and that it was not a

good thing for a member of one triad society to owe money

to a member of another triad society. Wah Tsai and the

deceased talked about half an hour but both parties did not

seem pleased with the result. Your Petitioner did not

hear what was discussed.

9. In the early morning of the 31st day of August 1973,

Wah Tsai, Your Petitioner and about five others of Wah

Tsai's friends all went to the billiard room in Nelson

Street to play billiards. As far as Your Petitioner knows,

there was no prior arrangement that the party would go to

that billiard room and certainly no prior arrangement to

meet the said deceased there. Your Petitioner and his

friends played billiards until early morning and, because

the police question people that walk in the streets at that

late hour, the party remained in the billiard room playing,

intending to go home at day-break.

10. Suddenly Your Petitioner saw the deceased came

into the billiard room with 20 odd friends including his

wife, presumably also to play billiards. Your Petitioner

thinks that the deceased's friends were all members of the

14K Triad Society.. Wah Tsai, the Elder Brother of Your

Petitioner's triad society, undaunted by the number, again

mentioned about this $400:00. Before long a fight started

between the said deceased's gang of triads and the gang to

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