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three years ago. I and my wife. the 18th day of the 1st moon by Rio de Janeiro from San Fran to this boarding house inten Kwong Hoi in Sun Ning My to go home to the country wards she refused to go and said she win become a prostitute and to rent advised her not to be a prostitute, but she sai she would be a prostitute. I killed her knife in the box, which I afterwards | at 12 midnight last night. Tout her throat ar she sureamed I do not per Calda came. I have no friends here. I put her in the box intending to take her to Kwonghoi for burial." The prisoner was then taken to the Police Station, where a jacket and a pair of trousers-which he was wearing were found to be blood-stained:

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fifteen years of age, said- am boy in the Ki Shang boarding house to wait on the defendant and a ho was with him. I was in the ng into the room every morning" nd seven o'clock whilst they ther in the room to ake a basin" I never went into the room door was opened to admit me. I into the room on the morning of the The door was opened a little and I the basin of water on the floor just inside As soon as he took the water the closed the room-door. I saw the of the woman at the mortuary, yesterday J. J. de Castro, a clerk at the Hongkong I last saw her alive at six p.m. on and Shanghai Bank, said the deposit reodipts the 14th inst, when I took a meal into the room. produced were made out at various dates in his At

the defendant was with her. I handwriting. The three notes, one for $400, or seen the defendant and the the second for $100, and the third for $200, And I have not seen the were made out in February and March this reaking to other men. She year and they bear the letters C. Wowh oths, but seldom went out. A long means that the money was paid in by Ching

Memblood. went with her to Sha Lan Tsai,woman" The one for $500: does not bear any here she went to a house, two doors | letters, but it was made out in the same name a druggist's shop. Yesterday I was as the others.

logo gain by the manager of the boarding. Chah Tat Cho, shroff in the Hongkong and house to look for the woman, as I had not heard Shanghai Bank, said he remembered receiving speak that day The prisoner had gone $200 on the 1st March and $100 on the 2nd wice and each time he locked the door. I March from a woman and giving her the receipts d the deceased at Yaumati. I used produced. He had seen the same woman on led into the room several times a day to two other occasions. On the first occasion she Yesterday morning I took brought $500, which he did not receive. On into the room and as soon as I had the second and third occasion he took the things on the table the defendant or

money, and on the fourth occasion she brought The table was very near 8400, which he did not receive. Usually I went into the room to re: the water after it had been used. I did o into the room yesterday morning, but out to me. On the izby water was handed on

the 14th inst. the rooms on either side

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Wing, manager of the Ki Shang house, spoke to going to the Central on and accompanying a Chinese to the house, where the trunk was

268, spoke to putting his body to see if had Defendant said

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By Mr. Mounsey On the first occasion she came with a man, but witness could not recog- nise him now. The woman was pook-marked. She said the money was her own.

Wan Shan, sergeant interpreter at the Cen- tral Police Station, said that after being duly cautioned the prisoner made

or made the following statement-Chan Tsui returned with me from the port of San Francisco. She promised live in the country with me, but on arriv Hongkong the refused to go. I asked he she wished to do in Hongkong, She wished to rent a room for the purpose stitution. Isaid I had enough money to in the country, and there was no need for become a prostitute. She said she wishe a prostitute for several years and to fin

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