1932-06-21 — Page 11

FUNG MURDER CASE

Before you actually left the Hotel did you go back into that room?-No air.

And before you were sont out did you see or hear anything?-

Continued from Page 2) 409 and 410 which had been book-No.

ed.'

Were you still there when the others loft?-No.

in

When did you go?-I went the room five minutes later for a cigarette.

You didn't watch for long then? -No.

After getting the cigarette did you stay in or go out?-I was sent out again.

How long did you romain there? -About ten minutes.

And what did you do then?- Zimmern told me to go to room 410 to rest.

Did you do that?--Yes. Were you still there when the others left?-Yes sir, I was told to stay back in the passage way to keep watch.

His Worship: Did you koop watch 7-I did. I kept watch until they went to drink soup and then slopt.

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Rang Up Zimmern. Bouza was then cross-examined by Mr. G. K. Hall Brutton, on be- half of the defence:

Mr. Brutton: You told us At 9.45 you were with Christie at the Majcatle Theatro?—Yes.

Do you know who he was tele- phoning to from there?-He told me he was going to ring up Zim-

morn.

And did he ring up Zimmern?- Yea.

And it was after that telephone or after he had conversation spoken on the telephone that he naked you to meet him there

at 8 o'clock?--Yes.

No-one ciao with you?-A Filipino friend was with me.

Also with you and Christlo? Yes.

Well now, you say you were on the way to the Yee Fong Chan that evening when you wont to the Chi- nese Club 7-YCH.

What was that for?-To look for tao pri Shing.

Who suggested you should go to the Chinese Club?-Zimmern.

Did Christie go to the Chinese Club 7-All four of us went.

And did you find too pri Shing there 7--No.

Mr. Lindsell: After that night did you ever see Christie again?- I saw him about two or three days later by chance at the Majestic Thentre. About three days after that I met him at the same place. by chance. On this

oc second casion I went to Hongkong with him to the South Chinn Athletic.

So from the Club you went on Christie went up and I stayed out- side, waiting for him, and then we to the Yee Fong Chún?--You,

There you had drinks with the walked

About

four! around.

drunk I didn't o'clock we met accused and a friend others? They by the Queen's Theatro. Christle drink much. followed accused and later called They drank, i see, and you didn't So you were in u We all four went into a con-drink much. fectionery shop.

better state to say what was going on there ?--I was a little

drunk myself.

And they were also?--Yes.

Did Not Watch, Now, you look upon the thing at the Nathan Hotel Joke?—No, Sir.

No, I sec. But, although you Whilst in the room did you hear were told to watch, you went to any conversation in which accused | your room?--Yes. took part?--No. I was sent out And when you were told after-

me.

What did you do in the shop? We ordered beef steak and ten.

Did all four have some food?- Three of them had but I didn't. 1. had a cup of ten.

When you Anished the beef stoaks where did you got-We| went to the Empress Hotel.

whole

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of the room. This was after the, wards you went to bed and went to friend had gone.

sleep 7-Yes.

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Now, as a matter of fact, who SYMPHONIC CONCERT. General Dobility in Men

POPULAR NUMBERS AT THE PENINSULA HOTEL

and Women.

were you watching for?-George Fung.

Did you know him?--I did not know him.

There are few people who do You didn't know him: didn't

not at some period of life find know what he wan like?—No.

The fourth Symphonic Concert themselves in a debilitated condi- And you

were watching Room held in the lounge of the Peninsula tion. There may have boon any 4027-No.

Hotel on Sunday evening proved a one of a number of cnuses: over- Another Witness.

great success, the largest atten-work, worry, sorrow or bereave- The next witness, Lau Mo- dance of patrons for the series mont, errors in living: or it may kwong, was put by the Public Pro- being recorded. Judging from the be the result of an filness, from secutor into the box with the in-applause, the most popular num- which recovery la not complete. troductory remark that ho W&B

bors were the Overture "Port and on the with the accused Cheng night of the murder.

Witness said he was 20 years of was living with bis age, and parenta at 16 Bonham Road. Bo know both the accused and Zim. morn very well, having known the and the former for five months latter for two months previous to the murder.

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On March 24, In the afternoon ho was in the rooms of the South

Athletic Association China Chine Building, when, at 4.80, he saw Cheng and Zimmern appear and, later, saw them play billiards at different tables. It was about 5.25 when they, accompanied by himself and three other Chinese, left the place and went to tha

Club Chinese Civil Service

in Queen's Road Central to gamble. A game of paj can was played. which witness merely watched. Cheng played and won $148.

After 26 minutes spent at the

the game,

three of them, ie. Cheng, Zimmern and himself, went back to the South China Athletic Association. As they entered the Hft Zimmern said that he would like to make a bet at billiards, but wan dissuaded by Cheng who told him not to do it and gave him two dolinrs.

They finally left the South China about 7 p.m.. walking to juin the Austin Seven owned by Cheng ot Street. Outside the Stanley King's Theatre they met a girl to whom they gave a lift, taking her to Bonham Road by way of Garden Road. They then proceeded to Wanchi and dropped in at Jimmy's Kitchen at Lockhart Road, Cheng driving the car.

the

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Joints, insomnia, digestive trouble sole "La Traviata," his effort be-and loss of appetite is really due ing highly appreciated and plauded. During the second into a defect in the blood, which has terval, Mr. Lawrence Bradley, well become thin and scanty, Until this the symptoms will known to radio listeners, played in corrected

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In all the entertainment was of themselves all over the world, by a very high standard,, and music virtue of the fact, amply demon- lovers, whether classical or "low-strated in thousands of cases, that brow, should make it a point of they are known to actually create attending these splendid weekly new supplies of rich pure bload. functions, where the entertain-

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a misery through Maklezoff, who, in Shanghai, gain- debility. I had its of dizzinera ed an enviable reputation by his and frequent headaches, I W talent with an organ.

ghastly pale, and could neither eat

wan

nor sleep well. After doctor's Cheng asked in what time it was, treatment had failed I was recom- and I told him it was 10 o'clec... mended to tak Jr. Williams' Pink He then wald: "To-night it is Pilla. It is no exaggeration to say rather inte. You had better not that they made me into a different go down to West Point as I am woman, and banished all afraid your family would Bcold symptoms like magic." yon, and besides I have somewhere else to go to."

my

men

Dr. Williams' Pink Pilla are the "Near the Garden Rond junction accepted remedy for both As they got back to the City, Cheng and women in all those allments gave me a dollar, but as I prefer-arising from weak and impure red to be dropped at the King's blood. For nearly fifty years Theatre to get to the bus at Blake their claims have been consistent- Pier, he took me further on, and

They must be good. finally dropped me at the Kwongly fulfilled. Hoi Kec. He gave me ten dollars. All chemists can supply you. anying "Take it, it's all youra,''

They had dinner at Cheng's ex- pense, and then returned to the city, the rar being again left at Stanley Street, while they went to the Pauline Dancing Academy. An hour later, about 9.30. they left to go to Cheng's house at Village Road, he saying that he wanted to Ket some money for the purpose of proceeding down to West Point Inter to gamble. Witness stayed with them because he wanted to watch this gambling, and was Nethersole

Witness, in concluding his evid- once-in-chief, said he eventually caught the bus for Bonham Road,

he

and at the Italian Convent he saw Cheng and Zimmern get

on the with them until they had reached samo bus, and proceeded along

Hospital, when alighted from the bus, leaving Cheng's house. As they got to the Cheng and Zimmern in the bus. Yeung Wo Hospital two o three cars were seen outside with a crowd gathered about.

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Cheng went inside his house when they got there, and Zimmern and he waited outside in the car. Two Indian constables approached, and Zimmern got out of the car to speak to them, witness als alight ing. Very shortly afterwards two Chinese in civilian clothes nino came along, and when Cheng had come, out of the house after an absence of ten minutes and joined them, Zimmern expressed a desire to catch up with these two Chinese to see who they were. They start- ed the car, but falled to find these two persons. After going for a distance of ten houses in a direc- tion taking them away from the central part of the city, they turn- ed back to go to West Point,

marked that some one must have

Somewhere Else to Go. "As we got out on the Race Course,' continued witness,

back

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sent time.-Router. times, would take a rather long time,

and with his Worship's agreement, suggested adjourning

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