Q—How long have you been Practising surgery.
'A—Sinco 1918, Q—Did you start in Shanghai in 1918?
A—Shanghai since 1920.
'QWhere did you start in 1918, A—I was surgeon at the Peking, Union Medical College, Q—Are you connected in any way with the Red Cross Hospital?
A—I am the surgeon there.
QUAt the head hospital nue Haig or on Tientsin Road?
A—Both places.
Quls that a "public Chinese hospital, maintained by the Chinese Red Cross Society.?
A—Partly. see any of the wounded who were taken to the Red Cross Hospital?
A—Yes, four on May 30, and two on Juno Q—Were they wounded or the killed? yon examine any of Q—Now, confine your attention to those brought in on May 30. How were they brought to your A—Threo of them were taken to Tientsin Road Hospital, and 1 kept them there until 6 o'clock, they jeame at 4 o'clock. Then I' trans. ported them by ambulance to the Avenue Haig Hospital.
Q—What "happened to the other one?
A—He came by himself to Avo. nue Haig.
Q—You attended them, A—My assistants. I saw the cases first, and turned them over my assistants, Q—OF these four men you have examined, do you say they were shot from behind? 3 'A—Two were shot from behinds The other two 1 am not able to say.
'Q—Take up those you know were shot from tahind. Tell the Court what you found as evidence of that.
A—One man had a wound of entrance over the right shoulder which tunneled through the skin and came out about 4 inches in front.
fou are positively cert it was a shot from behind?
Q—What about the next one?
A—He wes shot in the right scapula, and the shot came out. at the right axilla, The wound of exit was larger than that of entrance. I should sty the arm was held in this position when the shot was fired.
Q—The indications are very positive that he was shot from bo-hind. Could he have been shot any other way?
—Usually the wound at the point of entry is smaller, than the wound of exit.
Q—What aboyit the third one?
A—This one had a gaze over the top of the head. It ws impossible to say if the shot was from the front or behind. *Q—Was it a serious injury?
A-No. The fourth one had a wound on the outside of the thigh just a graze. Tt was impossible to say where it came from.
Q—Were there any others brought to the hospital?
A—Not that day. On June 1 two others came i Q—How did they come?
A—They came by riesha to Hirst one was shot in the back, just over the left scapula. The bullet apparently went through, above, Jand to the left of the region of the heart. The bullet did not come lout, but lodged below the skin, When the patient came in, we thought it was blood. I ordered the assistants to make an incision, and a clot of blood and the bullet jeame out. The second man was shot from behind. The entrance was on the right buttock and the Bullet is still in the buttock, We verified that by X-Ray. T have not, as yet operated on the case., Q—Out of 6 cases you examined you are positive four wore shot from behind Q—Have you examined any other cases at all?
have not.
Assessor:—Judging from your medical experience, this man with the bullet whioh you took out—about what distance would ho be amoy from the fung!
A—There is no way of telling {the distance, 'Q—Apparently he must be quite a tong way off A~Yos, the bullet did not have sufficient velocity to go through.
Assessor:—Could you tell off-hand, about the ages of those people?
A—They were all between 25 and 35.
Q—Did you enquire as to their A—Yes, one wax a bear-curd maker, one was a coolie at the Yih Ping Shang, I cannot recall the others. "None of them were ato-lents.
Crost-examined by Mr. Maite Q—Take the tint case. You ray the man way shot in the right shoulder, Can you indicate where fon the interpreter A—At the back, just about here (indicated).
Q—Where it come out?
A—About 4 inches to the front, just went below the skin, Bou would not way it wan lit No, I would not say it was absolutely straight, Q—It could be accounted for a sideways shott A—From. the direction, there was certainly a slight angle to it.
Q—It would be possible for a man on the edge of a mob to get bullet like that sideways?
A—That is rather difficult to Q—I will put it this way. You have a mob of, say, 2,000 people surging forward. You have the people here who are firing, the mob are hit in all different ditecions. They are not hit straight.
A—It all depends on how the rifles are held, Q—If the Police were in a semi-irene Tike that, the bullets would be coming out in different. direct tions?
Q—Like the rays of the sung Q—t would be distributed, not straight fire.¢ A—It may or may not.
Qaif they were in a som tele, and held their rifles in the direction of the radii of the circle, they would not be hit straight. "They would be hit sideways, depending on how the mob were rushing forward, A=I cannot yet your idea.
QUIT there is a mob seething forward, and the fire is radiating, it is possible for a man to be hit sideways, or if he turns round, to be hit'in the back.: In the con-fashion, it would be' possible for jo, man to ture partly round and get, hit, Q—Would it be consistent: with ricochet? The bullet might hit wall and ricochet off. Would
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