The Archive · 1928

Keswick Road Murder

The inquest on the remains of Miss Dorothy. Tesumed on November by.

Thompson was:

Mr. A. J. Marth ing as H, M. Coroner, when the evidence of Mr. H. Dudley Law, who was severely wounded at the Same time as Miss _Thompsos was killed, was taken in the General Hospital. Miss Thompsor was shot dead while walking with Mr. Law in Keswick Road on the evening of October 3; BMr. Law received bullet wounds through the head which at frst caused his life The evidence given at all four hearings is the same. It is admitted that on July 6, the compl ant, Li Ah-kung, and another cockle were carrying some iron suspended from a bamboo pole along Point Road when motor truck No. 9629, driven by the accused Wang Ah-sze, came up from behind them, ran ever complainant's right foot," and then collided with a shop on the left side of the road. The only witness whise story can be considered to be unbiased, is the hawk. er who was sitting at the side of the road. He knows neither the, complainant, nor the accused, and his story is supported by the cir-

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