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WO-PING THEATRE MURDER.

Accused in the Dock..

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TUESDAY,

AUGUST, 2% 1901.

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Witness: I saw one of the actors)

fiftear feet away from the connect-use of Mauser pistols would have ing point of the western rangway noticed the defect and the passage way which ran Cartridges of English Make, along the front of the stage. Im- Mr. Hazlerigg: What would be mediately after a man started to the effect of this defect if you pull run. He followed him, but was hind- the trigger again after the first shot! The preliminary trial of Yeungnd when he got to the fact of the would not cock. Answering further ered by members of the audience Mr. Avenel said that the hammer. Ko an a charge of murdering Li Siu-fan, a clown of the Chosage the man was two or three questions Mr. Accell said that the Fung Nin Theatrical Company at paces ahead. Outside the exit the at the Magistracy yesterday after-on a white ceat and heard the the bullet and cartridge caso pro- the We Ping Theatre, commenced constable saw his quarry throw rounds of live cartridges were of English mako anil were similar to noon. It was originally decided fall of something heavy. They by the Magistrate (Mr.

towards Connaught Foad duced Un the same day witness ex- Lindsell) to appoint Central and when the man leant amined another Hauser pistal, the dar оп Thursday. but the Wer a bamboo fence the constable barrel of which was oily, In his hearing had to be expedited forried to grab him, but without opinion it had not been used since the convenience of the Theatrical cress, The constable pashedis þad been last cleaned. The night Company which was anxious to aide the fence and continued the rounds of ammunition (with which it ; leave the Celony.

fchase. never losing sight of his! was loaded when it was found) were Case for Prosecution.

quarry until he arrested him. In not of the same make as the othes) Mr. T. M. Hazlerigg, Assistant | Cornaught Read the man turned even, but were of similar calibre. Crown Solizitor, prosecuted. Out-to the left and dashed under the A Man in a White Long Coat. lining the circumstances. Mr.wandah where he collided with Hazlerigg said that on the evening passer-by and before he could deposed that she was in the theatre A woman, a visitor to the Colony, of the 16th. inst. the Chow Fungover his balance the constable with her daughter on the night of Nin theatrical company was permunced on him and effected the 16th forming at the Wo Ping theatre.

She was sitting on the arrest. Returning to the ecoast seat of the front row on the At 8.30 when the deceased actor theatre the constable saw the west side of the centre gangen), was occupying the stage a man. white coat which he had noticed who was alleged to have been the weviously. It had been picked up

by ber side WA her acrused, and who was standing in a watchman of the theatre and

daughter. At 9.50 she suddenly frort of the first row of seats op- Manser pistol

saw a man, who was wearing a fourd Was posite the stage

on the ground waned up in it. Expert evidence the stage near the centre gangway, white lang coat, standing in front of Coor, produced a revolver and dis-wild be called to show that the charged it at the deceased. Imit bore traces of having beeni He raised his hand and im mediately after, the man ran out and recently. Mr. Hazerigg des mediately after she heard a report. of the theatre through the west exited the defects of the pistol The man in the white long coat then --which opened on of the stage alan the position of the wound. walked past her and an uproar fol -and deceased collapsed. He was

Another Pistol

lowed There were no other per removed to hospital where he died shortly after admission. With readied that deceased remained un- Mr Hazlerigg: Did you notice

The Assistant Crown Solicitor sons in leons of the stage. yard to the antecedents of the conscious until his death. Half anything regarding the actors on:

ceased. Mr. Hazlerigg, said an hour after the crime, a watch the stage after the report! mething was known ef him excepts of the theatre discovered in that at 6 o'clock on the evening of the centre exit of the west side the crime he hired a room at the there are three exits ea that side- Kwong Fat boarding house in another Mauser pistol lying on the vitation to question the witness, de- Responding to the Magistrate's in- Connaught Read. 1: Was not Anown whether he had any rejthe steps of the last exit through

gound, about forty feet away from fendant said: I was not in the tation with the deceased and the which the murderer escaped from

theatre. I was arrested in Crown was unable to assign erythe theatre. On being examined

street. particular motive for the crime, it was found that this pistol had

"Have you any questions to put The case of the Crown would rest not been used since it was last to her? the Magistrate repeated." almost entirely on the evidence of lelaned.

It contained eight live Defendant, to the witness: Can eye-witnesses of the occurrence. cartridges which were of a dit-yon identify me! The murder must have been wit-ferent make from those fouad in nessed by a very large number of the chambers of the other pistol

The woman: No. people in the theatre, but as the rene

Mr. Lindsell: Can you say it de- and ODP murderer was standing in front be cartridges. This pistol apparent-long coat whom you saw!

used fendant was the man in the white must have bad his back!

I had nothing to do with the! towards them. and idantifi

crime and it was possible it had have been he discarded by a member of very diffe:. The Crown WAS the audience who feared he would therefore relying entirely in mem- Df the theatrical up.

Li Pai, an actor of the Chow Farg people on the stage and the police.

Medical Evidence. Evidence was then called. The he was peeping not at the stage Nin theatrical company, stated that At this juncture Mr. Hazleriggi produced a number of plans of thert witness was Dr. W. B. from the curtain in the east end of theatre and its neighbourhood and Moore, Superintendent of the Gov explained to the Magistrate (fr.ernment Civil Hospital, who said the stage at 5.30. He saw a man Lindsell the lay-out of the deased was brought to his hos-wearing a white long coat standing stage, the various gangwaya and Pill by Sab-Inspector Field at in front of the first row of stall seata, other places indicated thereon. 9. p.m. He was unconscious and with his eyes towards the stage, on The width of the stage from pillar suffering from a bullet wound in which Li Sia-fan and Sheang Ngol te piller, said Mr. Hazlerigg, was the lower part of his neck. Blood ring were performing. Witness of 40 feet.

stain froth came out

his tention was suddenly attracted by The Shooting.

mouth. He died fifteen minutes the report of a firearto And After admiariod. The body was op Continuing, the Assistant Crown

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the SIW dentised the next morning by in Solicitor said that when the shot ventral actors. Witness performning towards the exit on the west

the white long coat was fired there were on the stage, apart from Li Siu-fan, two other da post mortem examination on site. He could not say where the the body, which revealed that the factors in the east end of the stage bullet had entered the left lower (roport cams from sad he had no They stated that shortly before the ion side of the middle of the line / man had run away. There were DO pet of the neck, slightly to the knowledge what happened after the marder they noticed a man stand- and passed through the wind pipe, other persons in front of the stage. ing in the gangway which can fracturing the seventh cervical alene in front of the stage.

Mr. Hazlerigg: Did you see the of them said that he saw the man card, and had come to rest in the the report?

vertebrae and injuring the spinal man making any movements before produce a pistel and deliberately YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO BE WITHOUT THEM. am at the deceased who was then muscles of the back of the neck to Li Pai: So. I saw one of his

in the centre of the stage. Te the right of the backbone. Wit-hands on his hip.

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Witness: No. I only saw 3 1035. Mr. Lindsell: Where did the re-

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"I Didn't Commit the Marder.” Asked if he had any ques- tions to put to the doctor, defen- acdant said:

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cogniaed defendant after his arrest outside the theatre. The other actor failed to identify the cused Another witress was 2 musician, who was playing his and I have no malice against him. the report in what position were his instrument on the west side of the stage, and who, after hearing the of the Public Works Department,up ander the back flap of his long M. F. C. Neville, an overseer hands?-Efis left hand was tacked report of the firearm, saw a man produced five copies of plans of roat and his other hand was hanging running along the centre gang the Wo Ping theatre. towards the western exit. This witness identified defendant at the of Hesars. Lace, Crawford and Mr. G. W. Avenell, an employee Police Station on the 18th,

The Magistrate; Not having the condition of the previously scen him in custody? Mauer pistols.

maintained that he was, but admitt- two

it out). I beard "bang" sad Bayswater, was summoned for re- Mr. Mr. Hazlerigg replied in the said he had had 26 years' ex-fire.

Avenelled that he did not

see defendant Li Sin-fan dropped down I saw no fusing to make a census ratuja, negative. Another witness, said perience of firearms. On the 17th.

smoke or fash. In running away Prosecuting counsel' said Mr. The Apprentice's Story. Mr. Hazlerigg, was another actor-inst, he examined one of the

saw the man tacking up the back of Pratt's household consisted of a Lam Hong, 18, an actor appren.

and, when the census paper was given no particulars regarding the His explanation was

Company, then gave evidence on a long coat. The witness, however, sin handled his pistol when he drew Gorden Pratt, of Orme-cout.

who was leaving the theatre when pistols (the one which was found tice, said: At 9.30 I was sitting his coat, revealing the black colon wife and child and five servants,

of his under garment. In his righ called for, it was seen that he bed

he heard the report. He said be inside the white coat) at the Cen-the east side of the stage, opposite hand was what appeared to be a turned round and saw a man run-tral Police Station in the presence the band, with my hand resting on pistol. He ran to the steps of the servants. ning towards the western exit. of Inspector Murphy. The in-a table, and was watching Li Bin His view was, however, impeded terior of the barrel was slightly Lan, who was performing in the mid-last exit on the west side, and I lost that he had not asked them by the band on the stage and by rusly. Corrosion had set in. Idle of the stage. Suddenly I notice sight of him. The footlights of the When the enumerator offered to

mam.

At this stage the case was ad

journed until this afternoon.

stage were not illuminated at the get the information himself; Mr. Pratt was obstinate, and delivered & discourse on the unfairness of the Census Act, concluding by ordering the enumerator out of the house. Later he wrote the authorities four-page letter. making a general attack on the ÀMIT-GENSUS MAN.. Government, and declaring that What is believed to be the first he had no more time to learn the Act of 1920 came before the be bad to learth the piano, ins prosecution under the Cens partieniars from his servants than Marylebone magistrate London of £5 was imposed, with fom where a professional man, Mr. F, guiness costs,

the railings of the west wing, and had been fired after it. was last he could not identify defendant. A cleaned. The chamber was con

a man in a long white cost standing time. He could not recognize the further witness was a watchman siderably larged. A split ap

in from of the third seat in the first of the theatre who also saw a man beated on a small portion of the

row. His hand was reating on his running as he was sitting between top of the barrel. The cart hip and his right hand was conceal he wing and the wait on the west ridge produced had been ex-ed under the back fap of his coat. side.

The man, he said, was panded in conformity with the About two seconds afterwards the pursued by another man.

enlargement of the chamber, brought autés pistol with his The result of the expansion right hand from under the Bay of While walking down the gon be effect of the pistol would be his coat, raised it in the air and way on the west side, Chinese a jan which would prevent the sa then lowered it as he, aimed at Li constable No. 100 saw smoke in tortie action of the injector, Any Siulan. (The boy hero gave front of the stage when be was perin" who was acountoured to the dramatic imitation of how the same

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