Q—What is your full namer A—sTohn Bertram Gilchrist Muir, Q—Yoware a doctor of medicine?
Q—Where do you work?
Amit Peking Road, Q—Vhat is the hospital?
AMO, the offices of the firm.
bid you examine any of the dead who were billed in Che Saturday anc Monday riots?
'ABL did) not actually examine} of the dead, hat a3 honorary siting surgeon at Shantung Road Hospital, E was called down there: shortly alter the wounded were Q—1)) you remember how many you 'A—It is hard to say but, roughly, E think Tsay about 15 fan you tell us, appro:
ly, where they wore wounded?
'A—the majority of the wounds were between the middle of the breast and the pelvis.
Q—In_ front?
A—Yes.
Q—Wern any of them from what you sav, hit in the back?
'A—Not the ones I saw.
Some were hit in the side, G—Assuming there was a mob] rushing towards Louza Police Station, would it be reasonable to ex-that some of them might be it in the side?
A—Yes, if a man turned sideways to the line of fire.
Assessor:—Wore these 1 men wounded on the first occasion?
'A—Yes, all at the one time—think 15 is the correct amber. here was a great rush at the time to give them first ai Q—As regards the wounded, did you attend to them at all in hospital?
'A—We wore operating from 4.30 to 11.30 p.m.
Q—As regards the wounded, where were they shot?
have a list of five that actually did myself. 'Two through and through wounds of the abdomen coming in at one! side and going out at the other. 'One was a side wound of the chest, going in at the front of the chest, and couling out at the left of the: spite. One was an_anti-posterior' wound in the left thigh, "and. there waa another conipound -fractiare of the left leg with niost of the akin removed from the seat of the fracture which necessitated amputation.
QLOf these 15, how many died, you know?
'A—Two died within 3 to 1} hours after admission as far as I can recollect. Two actually died following the operation. Two died cither the following day or the day} after.
'Q—Were these men in the main, students or elderly people?
'A—The average was about 25, that is what ore would estimate.
he must have b&@h caught on the One was a fairly ggung boy, £ think edge of the crowd. He died short-
Q—Totalling ap those who died, was it about A—Yea, I think so, roughly. The hospital can furnish the exact istles.
10 you got the death cer-
Thavenot signed them, Tae medical superintendent signs them. (Medical certificates handed in from Mixed Court inquests file)
Q—Can_ you tell us just how many of these men were that from the side, how many from the front, and bow many from the back because there have beea a lot of allegations about it? Can you help us to clear that matter up?
'A—OF the 5 mon T operated on wwaell, the first wound was from side to side, the second was from side to side, the third one was an oblique wound from front to back! across the chest.
Awwsor:—Is thers angthinz in the nature of the wound "which would enable you to say whether it went in at the back or at tho} front?
'A—Oh ves, asa rule the wound of exit for a rapid projectile, is larger than the wound of entrance.
Assessor:-—In_ this case, what was the actual fact here third man, Which was larger?
A—The wound of exit QHAL th. hack \—Yos. Other ti that make you believe the course the bullet "has taken ix that if they tre feme ans into the oft wound of ce, One ofthe ise, that would suggest the
men who died hac boon struck in the left rib and his lung was badly te. The fourth wound was!
poatorior woud involving tan artery in the left leg, and in the which necessitated an. let had absolute the loft tibia below th knee joint would say, it had centenoit from the front owing to the destruction of the skin there. These wounds must have been at faiely close range because there was of some of the organs that were struck. It was sort of clean, traversing
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