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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 1930.

THE LOK MA CHAU TRAGEDY.

Witness mentioned that In all in quick succession and then a third from the direction of the he heard about 14 shots fired, Station Putting on his boots and Can you distinguish, after your arming himself, he went out. By many years service, between a this time the alarm was sounding, rifle and revolver shot?—A · rifë REMARKABLE STATEMENT BY He met the officer in charge of the shot gives a louder report.

station and handed over the rifle Did you hear any shots what- and ammunition to Sergeant

ever that sounded like revolver Madgwick. They then made their shots-I did not hear any revol- way towards the station and got up to as far as the compound wall. The Coroner: On the way up were yon fired at? Witness: Yes,

CHIEF ACTOR.

SPITE ALLEGATION.

"The Officer-in-Charge has a spite against me." Dalip Singh is stated to have said in a written statement when called for some lapse before Sergeant Madgwick,

ver shots.

Then they all sounded like rifie shots?—Yes.

Continuing, the witness was

Where were the shots coming questioned as to Dalip Singh's de- meanour, but like, previous wit- from?-From Inalde the station.

How do you know the shots nesses he said that he noticed no- were fired at you then? Because thing unusual with Dalip Singh a few days before the Lok Mathe bullets passed near the officer nor had the latter expressed him-

in charge.

self as being dissatisfied with hay- Chau tragedy,

ing been sent to the Territories.

This statement was produced and attested to by Santh Singh, the Indian interpreter at Lok Ma Chau, when the inquiry was resumed before Mr. Lindsell at the Central Magistracy yesterday afternoon.

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Did you hear them?--Yes. What happened after the officer in 'charge crept up behind the wall?Then another shot passed by the officer in charge and he also fired a shot in return,

Could you see what he was do ing?—He was firing.

Could you see!-Yes.

You saw him exchange shots with someone?—Yes.

Did you see who it was? No. It was someone inside? Yes.

Discrepancies in the Indian Station guard's testimony, when compared with that of Sergeant Madgwick's houseboy, led to the Coroner recalling the latter at the

Sent for Assistance. resumption of the enquiry. Re Witness then returned to the plying to a nuraber of specific married quarters and later he was questions put to him, the Eouse ordered by the officer in charge to boy reaffirmed his previous state-go to Sheung Shui for assistance. This was about 5.10 p.m. or 5.15 p.m.

ment.

He declared that when Dalip Singh (to whom he referred as the "murderer"), entered the com- pound, it was with bis revolver in his holster and that it was ~ way of the right-hand flight of steps that he entered the Station, after- wards turning to the left before he reached the inner flight of steps, up which he climbed. It was not true, witness said, that Dalip Singh went up the outer stairway.

The Coroner: The Station guard says that he fired six shots at the "murderer" as he crossed the compound?--I did not see the Station guard fire a single shot.

Had he done so, would you have seen him? I would have.

The Shots Outside. Replying to other questions, witness said that between 4 and 4.80 that afternoon he was still in the kitchen, and, in the next half- hour, was in or out of that room. About 4.30 he went into the din- ing-room of the Officer-in-Charge. At that time, there was no mi- chine-gun in the first-floor pass- age, but it could have been there in the next half-hour without his seeing it.

He was quite certain that five shots were fired outside before the murderer ran into the compound. These shota were fired at short intervala. Had the Station guard fired six shots with his revolver, as he stated, witness would have

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shots, nor did he catch sight of the Station guard again after he ran in through the back door.

The Foreman of the Jury: You did not notice the back door was closed before you went into your room?-No.

In answer to other questions by the Foreman, witness stated that he heard the telephone bell in the charge-room ring a number of times.

Telephone Unattended. Nobody appeared to have attend- ed it the first time, and witness was sure it went unheeded the next two times it rang. Then when he heard a voice, he re- cognized it as being that of the Indian Lance Sergeant (Jewan Singh) speaking at what witness took to be the telephone. He was speaking in Hindustani, and wit- ness could only discern two sen- tences spoken in Cantonese, "Get the Interpreter! Get the inter- preter!"

Witness was quite sure that it was after dark when he heard the voice. He would now say, that it was not very long after the first shot was fired, when the telephone bell rang. Twenty minutes later, shots were fired again..

Crown Sergeant Mantan Singh said that he had been stationed at | Lok Ma Chau since November last and was the senior Indian officer there. When the shooting com menced be was in the married quarters, when he heard two shots.

Mr. King: Where were you when the men came out of the barrack room-the four men ia- side the station-I was in my quarters.

What made these men come 'out of the Station ?—I don't know why they came out of the Station.

Coroner: You heard no orders called out to them?--I heard the European Sergeant calling out to the Station guard. He was giv ing orders to the interpreter. In English.

Then it was in consequence of orders given through the munchi (interpreter) that they came out? Shouts came from the Station first.

King: What Then did you return later with Mr. the relief party from Sheung shout? It was the voice of B722 which said "Don't shoot, I am Shui?—Yes.

What time did you get back?-coming."

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