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MURDER TRIAL.

DEATH SENTENCE.

TELEGRAPH

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1926.

commented on the prisoner's last holding a dagger in his left hand. reply, remarking that the medical The other men were not captured 4vidonco. was to the effect that on but one must have had a chopper September 6, the day following the in his right hand and another a fight, he was normal except for a dagger in his loft hand, He sub- pulse and a little fovor. The jury, mitted that the Crown had proved The Criminal Sessions murder would remember that Dr. Paterson, the charge agalust prisoner. trial, in which A Chincoso had said that a blow on the spine

the of

WAS charged, д of the death Chinese In L street

The Defence.

Mr. Fitzroy in his speech for the dofenco submitted that prisoner was going down the steps of the market when he was struck by some persons. These people, ha submitted wore those who were running away from the fight

His Lordship pointed out that Counsel had asked no questions bearing on this possibility,

Counsel said the witnesses had stated that there were a number of people about at the time.

reault would probably have affected the another memory, but there was no mark or ngth bruisa near the spino, which was in the vicinity of the new Western what one would expect in such cir- Market, was concluded before the cumstances Chief Justice, Sir Henry Gollan, There was no doubt there was a yesterday, Mr. A. Dyer Ball pro-light in On Tai Street that morning, secuting for the Crown, and Mr. and that those concerned came into Somerset, Fitzroy defending. the street near the Market. One

The Prisoner's Story,

man was blowing a police whistle Prisoner was called and said on this happening the attackers ran when they arrived there, and on the night of September ho slept way. There was no doubt that at a box-maker's shop in Koo Sing two mon were wounded in the fight, atreet. In the morning ho washed,

and that from those wounds they

Continuing, he said that Dr. ute congo and then between 7 and 8 o'clock, went to the Western Market died. In view of the evidence of Minett, who had examined the to buy food. He went in and came

that fight the Crown had advanced, wound in the shoulder, had agreed out by the same entrance, but could was there any doubt that the pri that it was possible for a man with not say whether it was the Souther was the man who went round such a wound to lose his memory. ono or not. When he came down the steps someone hit him a blow on the bead, and when he got on the pavement he was struck again, across the shoulders, and fell down. He could remember nothing as to what happened after that,

2.

Orop-exhmined prisoner was ask- ed how it was that having been struck unconcious, he was able to run uomo distance and put up valiant resistance in Des Voeux Rond. Ho persisted that he knew nothing of what happoned after wards. Asked where he got the dagger and other weapon which he had in his hands when arrested, he, again replied that he did not

know.

His Lordship: Do you really mean that you have no iden. how those weapons came into your hands? That is so.

wounds.

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the corner with the bar in his hand i Fitting The Wounds. and that he used it in the fight! There was blood on the bar, and Dealing with the ovidence coun- counsel submitted that it could not sel said the man who struck one have got on it from prisoner's own of the dead men with dagger was not the man who had the bar in his band. The bar was found in Not By One Man.

the possession of the prisoner. Dealing with the wounds the de-Counsel for the Crown had said ceased received, Mr. Dyer Bali said that all the wounds could not have it was remarkable that there were had tried throughout the cage to been dealt by one man and yet he no wounds on the body to indicate fit the wounds with the dagger the use of a double edged dagger; found in the prisoner's possession. they were slightly wider than the

There was not a scrap of evid- breadth of the dagger which had once before the jury to show that en produced. But Dr. Craig had prisoner had done anything but told them that this was usually so run away. He submitted that the in the case of dagger wounds. So Crown had not made out its case far as the position of the wounds and asked for prisoner's acquittal. on the body were concerned he submitted that they indicated that prisoner held the dagger in his left hand. It was in the evidence of the Police that prisoner tried to attack them with the dagger in

is left hand."

Intor he mid the next thing he remembered after being strack, was being in hospital. It was several days before he came to himself

It was apparent that all the again.

Ho did not remember wounds were not inflicted by one going into the ambulance or goingman because one fatal wound was to hospital.

certainly dealt with the right hand.

Counsel's Closing Address. Mr. Dyer Ball, in addressing the jury finally on behalf of the Crown,

The Verdict.

His Lordship having summed up, the jury retired and after an ab- sence of seven minutes returned. They found prisoner guilty of murder. Before passing sentence of death his Lordship informed prisoner that on the facts which had been proved he considered there was ample, justification for

It was the case of the Crown that the verdict the jury had returned. there were, several armed

men. Prisoner received the sentence

prisoner being one of them and calmiy, and quietly left the dock.

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