Your defence is, counsel continued, that complainant's injuries have been much exaggerated, that a lot of politics have been brought. in, and that he has been beaten up for the purposes of this case?
Witness—What I say is that, when I saw him on the evening of the 6th, and after seeing the doctor's certificate, if that certificate is correct he certainly received further injuries.
Naturally, knowing that he was to be left in the police station, Loh would be rather chary of telling Mr. Ting who beat him?—1 don't agree. He had plenty of opportunity of telling Mr. Ling when my back was turned, and if he had done so, Mr. Ting would have told me.
Continuing, witness said that Balchin returned from Jessfield Road and related the "wallah wallah" which had occurred there being more or less an amusing story, the usual Chinese scene of one yelling against the other.
Can you explain how he came by the black eyo and the injuries to his ankle and back!—I think he must have got the black eye by bumping his head on the cell floor, because there was a distinct bruise onthe cheek bone.
You think ho did it himself Undoubtedly.
How did he manage to get the marks on his back?—I cannot tell you.
Your explanation is that these wounds were self-inflicted?—I do not say so. I only say: the black eye was self-inflicted. I may mention the recent Tiendong Road murder case, in which the acoused, injured by a sword drawn through his hands, was placed in the same cell as that occupied by Joh. When he had been there a little time he "got down on the stone floor and bumped his head, raising a lump as big as a duck's egg, and five times attempted to
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