Chow Tang-tan was charged on remand with having recklessly driven Tramear No, 49 along Nanking Road, thereby causing the death of one Sun Sin-kee at 7.50 p.m. on the 17th ultimo.
My friend Sung Yih-sung is locked up in the Mixed Court cells, as the security man for one Dong Nyoh-ching in n debt case. He sent word to me by a warder, asking me to go security for him that he could be released. I went to the Mixed Court and saw Sung who asked me to go security for him, which I said I would do. Runner Wong Soen's second told me to come with him to the petition writer Tsn's house in an alleyway at the back of, the Mixed Court. Tsu was to write the security bond forme. I accompanied the second to Tsu's house, Ts was not at home; I there met another petition writer, whom I know, by the name of Ng Sang-sai; and he wrote the security bond for me. When the bond was nearly finished and whilst the second and the writer were smoking opium and conversing together, the writer Ng Sang-sai, told me} that the runner Wong Soon wanted $20, for forwarding the bond to the Magistrate. I told the writer that it was too much and that I did not care to go security for my friend, and as I was going to leave the house the writer called me back, and said: "I shall were wanted in the Mixed Court; the detective told us to go to the tea-shop opposite the Mixed ' curt, and wait there until we were called; we did ea, and waited in the tea-shop till about 10 a.m. when ranner Wong Soon came and told us to come to Court. We were brought before the Magistrate at about 11-20 a.m. and our case was left to Court. The runner then brought us to the detention room and told us to get someone to go security for us we wrote letters to our friends calling them to come and see us; these letters we gave to the runner. My friend Ng Ching-zie came and saw me. I told the runner that Ng was willing to go security for me, and the ranner told my friend to go with him. Ng came back later and told me that the runner wanted $10 for the security bond. I told him
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