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chain round the neck was locked. He could recognise the features, and they were those of his father, Tung Cheong. He could also re- cognise some of the clothing as belonging to his father. He washed the mud off the body, antied the hands and feet, bought a coffin, and buried him. He could not take off the chain. The body was buried at the back of Un Loong, not quite a li from where the body was found.
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Deceased's widow also gave evidence. She said that when she heard that her husband had been seized by men she wont to Un Loong to ask the men to let her husband go. She was driven away from the meeting honse und as the men wanted to arrest her she returned home. She also deposed to first defendant and others coming to search the house for her children and to the burial of the body.
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The further hearing was adjourned.
2th June.
The following statements made by prisoners in the charge room were put in 2-
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Hall Seize him and take him to the Un Loong prisoners, saying that they were not good
Lam Pak To and two Ah and were guilty of communicating with for- meeting house." Chuen men then seized him. He was taken onteigners. He corroborated previous witnesses of the Ancestral Hall. Witness followed them at as to the mode in which the three men were a distance to Un Loong At Sui Pin Wai, Ng murdered and described the part which defend- Tong met the party and said "You have arrest ants took in the proceedings, ed Chun Kwei Shui Tui have you? Take him Two more Chinainan gave corroborative evid up." Ng Tong went back with the party to the Un Loong meeting honse. At the door of the meeting house, witness saw Ng Loong tie Chun. Kwei Shui-Tai's hands up.
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27th Jane.
Ng Ki Choung, Ng Tang, and Lin Tak Lap were charged on remand with the murder of Chan Kwai Toni Tai, at Un Loong, in April.
Chan On, a 'farmer at Nam Ping Loi, Un Loong, identified the three prisoners He said he went to the meeting house at 3 pm. 15th April,, and saw a lot of people there. A Hakka had been arrested. Ou 16th April a muu Castle Peak, haimed Tang Kum Mui, of Was arrested. His hands and feet were tied. He was carried into the meeting honse. On 17th April, he heard that Chun Kwei Sui Tai had been arrested. He was a nephew of the witness. Witness saw his nephew at the meeting bonse with his hands and fest tier. He saw another two prisoners. A few minutes later he went back and saw five men prisoners. About six o'clock Ng Ki Cheong came to witness's bouse and said
Will you bail out Chun Kwei Sui Tai " Witness said Very well p Ng Ki Chenng then said You're bailing him does not matter; you must stand guarantee for the whole clan that there will be nothing afterwards." Witness said " I dare not bail him,“ meaning he would not dare to guarantee the whole clan. Ng Ki Cheung sat in his house for some time and then said,
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One end of the chain was fastened Witness said, "Do according to your intention." to the crate to prevent getting loose. Iu Tung Cheaug Tz then came and said gunpow- taking out the orate witness saw a leather der liad come; to-morrow morning there must shoe taken out. In removing the body from be a fight. He told Ng Ki Cheung to come the crate the, head of the body fell off. out and fix the three of them. After the 17th The body was too decomposed for witness witness never saw his nephew alive again......... to notice any bullet wounds. The other dead
The case was again adjourned.
body was reinoved from the crate, and witness Auother arrest has been made at Namitau in caused the chain round the body to be broken connection with the murders at Un Loong. Fin order not to mutilate the corpse. Two coffins The whole of the supposed principal participa-were obtained and the bodies were buried. The tors in the murder hare been arrested.
Captain Superintendent F. H. May conducted the prosecution.
Chief Detective Inspector Hanson gave evid- ence of the finding of the dead bodies in the two pig crates in the creek at Un Loong. He said on 25th inst. he went to Uu Loong with Tung Po. They proceeded down the Un Loong river and Tung Po pointed out the place whers he found his father's body. Witness had taken with him from Hongkong a number of under- taker's coolies. 'The coolies searched the creek on the right bank of the river.. The mud was soft. The coolies slipped into the mud and groped about with their feat and legs... At last one coolie said "I have come on some. thing it is hard," Witness went into the water to see. The coolips took up two pig crates pro- duced, in each of which was a dead body. Speak- ing of one of the crates; witness said it con tained the body of a man with a loop chain round the neck of the body. The head of the body · was at the closed end of the crate; the legs were drawn up
Thng Tsing Sz said-That affair in connec- 4ion with Tung Chenng has nothing to do with me. I do not know who caught him. Soon after 4p.m. on the 17th April, Tang Chak Hing, who had had two piculs of gunpowder which he had bought from the Tung Kun pass boat carried away by the Un Loong people, compelled me to go to Un Loong to find Ng Sin Chi to get back the two pients of gunpow- der for Tang Chak Hing. Then Ng Sing Chi asked me if I would undertake to stand security for Tung Cheung Tsai. I put him off saying that I did not like to do with a matter that concerned the people generally. I know noth. ing whatever of what happened afterwards When I heard on the 18th of April that Indian soldters were coming to give battle I took away my family to Nam Tau. Ou the 21st of April Ng Lò Sam led people to burn the house of my daughter-in-law. On the 22nd of April they removed the goods of the Tung Fung shop to Ping Shan, and he told his people to sleep in the shop at night, when they, more. over, took away goods. Then I resolved to go back home, but, having no house to live in and Chan Ou, recalled, said that when Ng Ki nothing to eat. I was compelled to go to Cantou Cheung said to him he must stand guarantee and depend on relatives until His Hon-ur for the whole clan and he replied that he dare The should settle about the territory satisfactorily not do so be referred to the Ng clan. and I could return to my home. On the 30th previous day he went with the police to the of May people came to see me. I told them that river at Un Loong, and saw two pig baskets either in the third decade of this moon or in the with dead bodies ingthem dug up. At the place early part of uext moon I must certainly go to where the bodies were dug up he saw a leather Hongkong to plead my cause and show clearly shoe dug up. It was the shoe produced, and the cause of the burning of my house. Ouhe identitied it as one of Chun Kwai Sui Tai's the 15th of June it was said that one thousand dollars reward, was offered for my arrest. I do not know what for.. On the evening of 14th Jane I brought my wife and children down by the night steamer to Hongkong to report the matter to the Registrar General clearly, and ask. His Honour the Register General to give ine a place to live.
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shoes, the man wearing such shoes when he last saw him. The man always wore such shoes.
place where the bodies were found was fifty yards from where the two witnesses Kwan Pui Chi and Li Yuen Tse stated the bodies were thrown into the river. The place was lower lown the river. The creek was about one-third of a mile from Un Loong
A Sergeant Interpreter at the Contral Police Station put in the following statement by the prisoners -
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Ng Tung said I did not do it. On the night of the 8th day of the third moon I was sitting at a friend's. After sitting there I went away, I passed the meeting house and saw Tang Tsing Sz, Kwan Pui Chi, Tam Pau Tan, and several coolies. I also saw Kwan Pui Chi and Tang Tsing Szench holding a revolver. I asked the coolies, What is the matter The coolies said, Tang Tsing Sz has engaged us to carry some persons away to be killed. I at once returned to my house."
Lui Tak Lap said-I was hawking vegetables there. Taug Ting Sz came into the temple and told me to hire a boat. I said, "There is no boat to be hired." He told me to go into the meeting house, there saw, five men in pig crates lying on the ground. Tang Ting, Sz told me to carry one to Wanchai landing place. Those gentry Tang Ting Sz and Ng Ki Cheung threw them into the sea, I then took my bamboo and ran away. After I had walked away one chang I heard two reports of fire- arms. The first defendant, the Sau Tsoi, ant Tang Tsing Sa said they would give me several ten cent pieces as wages. All ran away at day.. light next day. After thus carrying, the two Sau Tsoi Tang Tsing Sz and Ng Ki Chung promised me in the Po Tsz gambling house to give me several cent pieces as wages.
Chan Tsing, a brickmaker living at Nam Pin Wai, at Un Loong, said he had a brisk kiln at Tong Pak Ton, about three li from Nam Pin Wai, He had known first defendant all his life, and he had known second defendant since he was a boy. On the evening of the 8th Cheung Ting said-I am employed as a took day of the third moon second defendant came to in the Sing San shop at Un Loong. At his brick kilu about six o'clock. He said he was 10 pm.
on that day three men, viz., Tang told to tell him to bail Chun Kwai Shui Tai. Ching Shi, Pui Chi, and Ng Ki Cheung, came He accompanied him to the Uu Loong meeting to my shop. Tang Ching Shi asked me to gathouse. He intended to bail him. When they a light to go out to the wharf together with got to the door he stopped, and stayed outside him. I saw Pui Chi had a revolver in his hand, with some others. Chang Tsing Sz called out and be shot a man dead with the revolver.
Do not bail him." Witness then went away. They said they were going to kill his clansmen, but so many men were there that he did not interfere. His clan was the Chung clan, but there were noue of them in the meeting place, most of those present belonging to the Tung clan. Kwan Pai Chi said he belonged to a shop at Un Loong where he had beeu living for four generations. He knew first defendant, who lived at Un Loong and was an elder. He also knew second defendant, who Ng Ki Chung said-I did not murder Chan was a nephew of the first defendano. Third Hing Tai. Tang Tsing. Sz was eager to sen him die. The Chinese anthorities offered a re- defendant was called Pai Tak Tap and was a runner in the Sun Tai place at Un Loong. He ward of $250 to arrest Chan Hing Tai. After On his arrest I-intended to hand him over to the had known him for seven or eight years. the 8th day of the third moon he went to the Chinese authorities. I bad deposited $250 witq meeting house at Un Loong at about 7 p.m. be.. the Chinese authorities, and I got back the re- canse he heard that five men had been arrested ward of $250. Tang Tsing Sz's mind was over-con- and he wanted to see them. When he got therecious to murder Tung Cheung. Therefore he got he saw them. He saw Chan Kwai Tsai Tai the several men murdered together. If I had and Tung Cheong among them. He did not. murdered Chan Hing Tai the deceased's rela
tives would prosecute me, The deceased's rela- know the others. Each had a chain round his neck. He saw defendants there and they were tives say it was Tang Tsing Sz. If I wished talking about the men whom they had taken Chan Hing Tai to die I could have sent him to
The prisoners were committed for trial. In addition to Tung Cheoug two other Chinamen suspected of being favourable to the British were murdered at Un Loong in April, an at the conclusion of the case against Tang Tsing-Sz and Cheung Ting two other men--- Ng Tong and Sui Tak Lat were charged with the murder of Chun Hing Tai otherwise Kwei Shui Tai. They pleaded not guilty..
Chief-detective Inspector Hanson having given evidence of arrest.
Chun Kwong Yeung, a farmer living at Un Loong, said first prisoner was one of the elders of Un Loong, and a Chinese B.A. Second prisoner was a nephew of first prisoner. He was a vegetable seller. He used to go out and in of the Sun Tai's yamen at Un Loong. Ou 17th April witness went to Ah Chuen to carry vegetables. He got there at 2.30. p.m. In the Ancestral Hall at Ah-Chuen he saw a crowd. He saw Ng Ki Cheung and Lam Pak To and Fome others sitting there. They said "Why does Chau Kwei Shui Tai come intʊ the Ancestral
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