In the Provisional Court, last Pri-day, at a special hearing, a Chinese was charged with the murder of P. C. 756 in Yangtszepoo Road on January 23, and the attempted murder of C. P. C, 1988, on January 28, in the vicinity of 171 Park Road. In both instances gangs.of armed men, who had robbed houses. were tackled by the police and fired at them.
P. C, Furness gave evidence of arrest, aaying that, whilst on patrol in North Honan Road, on January: 30, he found the accused with a pistol in his possession, Sub-Inspr. Sharman, a pistol ex-' pert, gave evidence regarding his conclusions in connection with an examination of cartridge cases which had been picked up on both occasions and his experiments with a cartridge which had been fired from the pistol found on accused. He introduced enlarged photographs of his specimens as exhibits, and declared that all the bullets had been fired from the same pistol. Ho pointed out that it was possible to identify bullets by riffing marks and the marks on the cases.
The thoroughness of police in-vastations in thee tial ce-ord was brought, m.Te will Saturday, a Chinese, who resisted arrested near the intersection of Thibet Road and Avenue Road, was shot and killed by the police, and on him was found the pistol the late C. P. C. 756 carried at the time he was murdered. This incident, to the police, associated the alleged murderer of C. B.C. 756 with the gunman" who had been killed.
Accused waa taken to the Morruary on Wednesday to identify the body of the deceased robber. When he saw kim, according to Inspr. Jefferson, he stepped back startled, bhut recovered and refused to admit that he know hi In connection with the Park Road shooting, C. P. C, 1988 positively identified accused, in a parade at Hongkew Police Station and yesterday in Court, as being the man who shot at him.
Accused denied having been concerned in either of the crimes. He said he had been promised $2, by man named Wong, to cary' the pistol to a certain address. When questioned by the police, he gave Wong, and Inspr. Jefferson pointed out accused's obvious perjury and lack of a coherent story of how he got possession of the pistol.
The Court found accused guilty and remanded him for judgment,
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