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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1930.

THE LOKMA CHAU

TRAGEDY,

MRS. MADGWICK SHOT DOWN

WHILE RESISTING.

INQUIRY RESUMED.

holding a rifle, with bayonet un-

fixed, by the flagstaff,

What was he doing with it- He was cleaning it with a rag.

Did you see what he did with the rifle afterwards?-I did not.

At that time was he by himself or was anyone else with him?-He was alone.

DEVELOPING NEW TERRITORIES.

AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY

CONSTITUTED.

At a recent committee meeting After you ran into the room, were of the New Territories Agricultural- you interfered with by the mur Show the constitution of the New derer or by anybody else?-I was Territories Agricultural Associa not molested in any way at all, tion was approved and the ques- either by the murderer or by any-tion of registration is now in the one else.

hands of Messrs. Deacons, solici tors.

This concluded the evidence of the

That Mrs, Madgwick was shot while resisting an attempt by the murderer to enter her room, was disclosed in the course of testi-witness. mony given by Dr. J. T. Smalley, Medical Officer in charge of Kow-

Doctor's Evidence.

loon Hospital, who arrived at Lok Dr. J. T. Smalley, medical officer Ma Chau with the Police rescue of the Kowloon Hospital, said that party on the night of the tragedy at 7.40 p.m. on July 21 he received that resulted in the loss of threen telephone message to go to Lok, lives."

Ma Chau. He got there at 8.45 and entered the station at about 11:40.

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Au Huen, servant employed by the Madgwicka, gave further testi mony yesterday concerning an In- dían constable whom he saw stalk ing about the. Station, holding a rifle in his hands, and firing as he

moved about from place to place. Witness did not know the name of this Indian, and in his evidence. he invariably employed the term of "murderer" in referring to the identity of this Indian.

The reason for the establishment of the Association is that it will) be the beadquarters hereafter for carrying out a programme for the commercial development of the New Territories. One of the principal tasks that will be taken up at an early date is the putting into opera- tion of a credit co-operative sys-

The first body that he found wastem. that of Mrs. Madgwick. It was ly ing on ita back in the back sit ting room. The head was against the door of the room leading through to the bathroom.

From the temperature of the body and the state of rigor mortis, he judged that death must have taken place between five and six hours previously. In the panels of the door lending from the bathroom to this room were five bullet holes.

Dr. Smalley then described in de tail the wounds, saying that Mrs. Madgwick must have been killed by a shot. penetrating the door against which she was standing. Death was instantaneous, and there was no evidence of attempted outrage.

Au Hnen said: "The next I saw of the Station guard (the constable. on duty at the Station at the time) was when he.came through the back gate. He had no revolver in his hand, and had reached about the middle of the compound when the other two Indians came in through the same gate. One these latter two was the murderer.. He was holding a rifle in his hand, and as

The body of Mrs. Madgwick, to- soon as he appeared through the gether with those of P.C's Dalip pate he fired one shot with it. in Singh and Chajja Singh were the direction of the passage run-identified at the Mortuary by Ser- ning outside the charge-room.

geant Brennan.

The second body witness saw at the Station was that of, Dalip Singh, which was lying on its back on the front verandah of the first floor. It was then lifeless. Wit- ness thought that death must have taken place less than five hours pre-

"The Station guard then rushed Into the Station and switched on the alarm bell. I saw the murderer enter and turn un the inner stairs leading up to Sergeant Madewick's quarters. At that moment, I could also see the other Indian. Constable R9. enter through the back-gate.viously. He was holding his hands to his stomach; and on reaching a point five or six feet from the Indians cookhouse, collapsed, rolling about on the ground and groaning.

Mistress Warned. "I then heard another shot fired inside the Station in the direction of the top of the Inner stairs where the murderer had gone up. He re- appeared, a minute Inter. through the passage door and on to the The third body, continued wit- back verandah of the first floor.ness, was that of Chajja Singh. It and then fired two shots. in my direction bat over the roof.

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There was a large wound, witness continued, in the head. No other wound was discovered at the post mortem examination. Death was due to a bullet wound in the skull and haemorrhage. The wound must have been caused by a bullet fired at very short range and could have been self-inflicted. Death was instantaneous as a result of that wound. A rifle was by the

side of the body.

was in an alley-way of the ground floor on the westerly side near the "I then saw my mistress appear north-west corner of the compound. through the inner door of the Death resulted from a bullet wound pantry, the outer door of which. in the abdomen. Witness em- Heading into the dining room, was phasised that, the man was shot open. I waved her back and she from the back and probably lived withdraw. I closed the outer door for about two hours after being and went into the amah's room and | shot. shut myself therein with the amah. "About three minutes later, some four or five shots were fired in quick succession. The reports caine from the direction of the Sergeant's bathroom, the door of which was ajar. Five minutes later. I again heard some more shots, but could not say where they were directed, as I had hidden myself under the amah's bed and covered myself up. At intervals from that hour on, I heard more shots fired,

Under the Bed.

In reply to Mr. Lindsell, Dr. Smalley said that it was quite possible that if assistance had ar- rived an hour earlier Chajja Singh might have lived.

Mr. King: Can you say whether the wound in Chajja Singh was caused by a rifle or revalver bullet? It is a biggish wound but I really cannot say definitely, though my impression was that it was caused by a rifle.

The committee has gone into the various methods of credit co-opera- tive systems operating in India and other parts of the British Empire and have come to the conclusion that the most feasible thing to do is to introduce a method adaptable to the Chinese in the New Terri tories. The method evolved for the formation of the credit co-opera- tive system in the New Territories is as follow:

Formation of a Credit Co-opera- tive Society,

1. There shall be 1,000 Members to form a group.

2. Each member is to pay $20, payable in. 6 yearly instalments of $4 a year, or to pay $18.00 in one instalment during that last year.

Refund.

3. From the 6th to the 15th year inclusive, 50 members are to be paid every year.

From 16th to 20th year, 100 members are to be paid.

Members are paid by drawing lots annually.

4. Amount to be refunded shall be $21 a member in the 6th year, increasing $1.00 annually, therefore on the 20th year each amount to be repaid shall be $35 each.

5. Commenting from the 21st year to 40th year each share is to receive an annual bonus of $1, pro- vided the Association shall be able to have a profit of $2,000 a year on the money accumulated there- on. If the Association cannot get a profit of $2,000 from money thus) accumulated, the annual payment of $1 each share shall cease.

6. At the end of 41st year any amount left shall be at the dis- posal of the Association, and all members shall have no more claim whatever for the money.

No Inconvenience. Each scrip shall bear a number and shall be transferable, As A No identification is bank-note. necessary.

Money Lent Out. The Association shall appoint cfficers and inspectors In each dis- triet to supervise the loans and for valuation of property. All officers and inspectors so appointed from the Elders in each district shall be honorary.

Loan exceeding the amount is to The Foreman: Do you consider be referred to the Committee for that the wound in 543 (Dalip consideration. Singh) could have been other than District Officer for the time be- "About dark I heard the cover sex-inflicted ?--It is quite imposing shall be the Supervisor (ie. over the wooden bucket in the sible. It was self-inflicted and fired like the Central Bank) who shall native latrine under me being lift-at absolutely point blank range. apportion the loan at the recom- mendation of the Officer and In- spector.

ed and then replaced, the sound being repeated twice. At 8 o'clock

or so, I heard the voice of the In-

Amal's Evidence,

Ip Chu-mui, Mrs. Madgwick's said that the Sergeant

dian Lance Sergeant raised in alamah

terest due.

All loans must be on security. shout in Hindustani, and also heard ther master) went out at

Rate of Interest shall be from ten the Indian interpreter replying. 12 p.m. and Mrs. Madgwick to twelve per cent. a year payable heard and saw nothing more after accompanied him to the gate and half-yearly, ie, after each crop. that until the arrival of the Police turned back. At 6 p.m. Witness All loans are annual and can be party.

was in the other Sergeant's renewed upon payment of all in- The Coroner: Even when the (Gardiner's) kitchen, when she Inspector General came in at 11 heard a shot fired somewhere o'clock you did not come out? You outside. She came out of the still remained for another three kitchen and looked out of the win- hours 'under the bed?

dow into the compound. The "boy" her room with the "boy" and shut Witness explained that the Police was also on the verandah. Witness the door.

Just before the Indian with the party did not actually come up-saw an Indian constable take,two, stairs to where he was lying, until paces into the compound and then rifle appeared she saw her mistress 1 a.m.

the fall to the ground. A little later at

dining-room verandah Mr. T H. King: On that after-she saw another Indian constable door. Her mistress did not speak noon did you see any Indian con- with a rifle in his hand come out of to her but went into the sitting stable cleaning his rifle?

room. Later she heard three more the passage into the verandah ever- Witness: Between 4.30 and 4.40 looking the compound, She saw shots. that afternoon I saw this Indian him fire two shots in the direction The inquiry was then adjourned who turned out to be the murderer, of the bathroom. She went into until next Friday at 2 p.m...

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