An adjourned inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of Dolah Singh was held at the British Police Court yesterday afternoon.
Hoo Uhang-chen, recalled, stated that she lived in a shop behind the native bankers' guild, downstairs; the deceased lived upstairs. She last saw deceased alive at about 8 o'clock in the morning of the day he died. The deceased was employed by the Municipal Council. Witness next saw the Indian at 1 o'clock, when she went upstairs to dry some clothes, Deceased was then lying on the bed with his head on one side. She spoke to him, but he did not reply. She thought he was dead, so she went downstairs and told her husband. The latter went away to inform the Municipal Council foreman. At about 1.30 p.m. the foreman came to the house with a foreigner. Deceased had lived in the house fo: wit four or five months. An Indian came to the house and went upstairs before the foreman and the foreigner arrived. The Indian stopped about a quarter of an hour upstairs. When he came she told him that his friend was dead; when he came down stairs he said nothing. This Indian had often been there before to see his friend.
Dr. Marsh deposed that on Monday afternoon, the 23rd instant, he was called by Det-Sgt. Craig to a house in Haining Road. He arrived there about 4 o'clock, and was taken through Chinese barber's shop upstairs to a room over the shop, and found, on a trestle bed, the body of an Indian partly clothed and evidently dead at-least three hours. The body lay across the bed with the shoulders supported by the wall in a reclining position. There was no evidence of a straggle or of internal injuries. Deceased appeared to be about twenty-eight years of age and well nourished. At a farther examination he made at the mortuary he found there was well marked pleurisy with inflammation of the Lung on the right side, an evidence that the deceased had died suddenly of heart failure, while soffering from an acute attack of pleurisy with pneumonia, There was absolutely no evidence of foal play.
Corroborative evidence was given by Hoo Chang-chuen, a barber, and Det. Sgt. Craig and the Court found that Dolah Singh died st about 1 p.m. on the 23rd instant, from heart failure, while suffering from an acute attack of pleurisy with pneumon
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