Further evidence in the Yalu Road shooting affair was given at H.M. Police Court on Monday, when Samuel C. C. Vaughan, an assistant foreman at the Shanghai Waterworks, appeared remand charged with having attempted to murder a Cantonese woman, Wong Ah-mei, at a Chinese restaurant in Yalu Road.
Mr. E. T. Maitland appeared to prosecute.
Dr. R. J. Marshall described the injury received by the woman, and added that it was sufficiently dangerous to have caused death, but unless something extraordinary happened she would recover and should de able to appear in court in a fortnight's time.
The proprietor of the resstaurant, Loh Gee-gong, was recalled. He stated that.accused called at the restaurant about '9.30 p.m. and ordered supper. He did not take a seat, and told witness to hurry up. Witness was in the kitchen when the shooting took place, and when he asked accused why he had done it, Vaughan replied: "Are you afraid? If you are, -I will shoot you myself." Accused—then pointed the revolver into his own mouth and witness pulled it away, Vaughan then leaving the house by the back door.
In answer to Mr. K. E. Newman, who appeared for the defence, wiriness said he did not see accused pull the trigger twice, when pointing the revolver into -his.own mouth, without anything happening.
Osman Abdulla Andjouchitch, a Montenegrin cigarette merchant who was taking his supper in the restaurant when the shooting took place, said that accused seemed very Yestiless and did not sit down to the food which was ®rought for him. He spoke to a Chinese girl for a minute or two, and the next thing was that witnesg heard a shot and saw a smoking " revolver in accused's hand. He then stepped back a pace or two and pointed the revolver at himself.
At this stage the hearing was further adjourned.
At the adjourned hearing on Thursday, a girl named Zung Kwei.pau, who was in the resstaurant at the time, said she saw accused take out his revolver, and fire, after having said to Ah Mei "Do you see this?"
In answer to Mr. K. E. Newman, for the defence, witness said accused called the girl twice and she made no answer. He also said to her:. "If you don't believe me, don't you know what this (the revolver) is for?"
And as he said that, the pistol went off 1—Yes.
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