The Crown Advocate—There is doubt whether he was a Mahomedan.
Mr. Macleod—-He never went out with turban. Chemda said deceased was wearing s four-yard turban, and I suggest that a small turban Jike this would Jock like a fez, and that Chanda mistook the fez fora turban. I now put to you what Lconsider may have happened. There is suggestion that the body might have been taken out ona boat or a piece of wood, and it is also suggested that if that had been done it would have been taken out further. Still you have to consider that, and give it the wei; zht ie is entitled to, Itis obvious that i though there are many ar guments agai it. Banks says ho saw ithe hand about four inches out of the wat or, in water 3 ft. 6ins. deep. If you look at the photograph you will seo that the arm i's not free from the shoulder, and that it could only rise avery little higher than thie france and the man's body. I suggest that the body tied to it was only about' a foot high. Banks lifted the body out of the water from a sampan, which.was probably moving, and he lot it goagisin. When he came back he could not find it, and then you. have decided inforraation that. it was found further out. Li? it could have moved three feet out there is no reason why it should not have nieved eight or ten feet out. The body was underneath the frame and formed an ex: cellent surface for it toslide on." Perhaps you will say—but how was the body got. out there if the murder was committed. after Chanda saw deceased go out? Chat is not dif-fault at all. They would carry him out into the water up to their necks, perhaps, and then the body out as far as possible with their feet. A man's body in the water ix of practically no weight at all, and the weight of iron is considerably reduced. The more water there is, the easier it "w to carry a body, and the easier it would, be to push it out. You also have the fact, that the tide was ing going down. and thst it would aid in carrying the body fu other-out. It would not be impossible, I suggest, to get the body ont'to where it was. Now I come to what I think you are waiting to hear; what suggestion have the defence. to make, and how'can ¢l.¢ where the man was killed be explained, and how was he taken{into the water?) We have had evidence that deceased sometimes went ro-ud the wall. If he went out at 3.30..m., and walked round the wall to the gate of the Cosmopolitan Dock, came in, and passed through the gute betwen the two docks, he would have gone all round and arrived at a spot where we agree he was tied to the moulding frame in something like ten minutes. 'There is no reason why he should not have been dowa at the water's edge in ten minutes. That being so there is another important qu tion—who committed the crime? There is a watchman at the gate leading into the Cosmopolitan' Dock, s watchman at the gate between the docks, ® watchman at the machine shops, and another at the saw mill. There were also watchmen at the other gate, Any one of these mor might have done the mui T sung: to you that not only might any o1 these men have done it, but that there is very little doubt that the tal! Sham knew something about it. There is no necessity for more than two people to have been concerned in it; there may have been three, but two would have been sufficient. I suggest this to you as an ox-planation. Now with regard to the turbans. Chanda Singh says ho never had a white turban. Verhava Singh never saw him in a white turban, and though nce is of little value for a on the same charge, is" it sufficient for you that Rattan Singh said that he had soon him in a white turban? Mr. Black's evidence, I think I can persuade you, is net worth very much. Be says ho saw Chanda Singh wear a white turban froquently. He never noticed what any-other of the watchmen were wearing. -Verhava Singh was on watch within 100 feet of Mr. Black's house, and Mr. Black must have soon him there every time he passod in or out. If he did not notice Verha I suggest that he did not notice Chand He simply honestly thought he remombered it. Rattan Singh cannot say any reason for recognising the turban, he cannot say that it is uonsually thin or narrow. He says the red turban is Sultan's because it is made out of Russian flag cloth. story is that he did buy a turban, a black one, at Port Arthur for three roubles. has built on several statements he has heard and magnified them. I say he kas made honestly or not—I scarcely wwe honestly—in saying that this turban was the one he saw in Port Arthur. Then Rattan. has acknowledged that he wason bad terms with Sultan and Ver-~ hava. I have a few more remarks to make on the evidence of Amir Buksh. The story he has told he can hardly have Been supposed to have entirely invented. The only ovideucy in his story is against Chanda Singh. 1 asked hin some further questions in connection with the dock and found that he wanted to be a watchman again—that he had been considering how he could become a watchman for suwe time. He did not know the prosont master but he knew the name of the. previous one though he declared he had never written to Mr. Markham. He then went on to say that he was asked in hospital if he had-written to Mr. Markham. I do not think you can escape com-to the conclusion: that he knew something about the letter. I ask you to believe what Chanda. ssid—that the
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