The next witness was Ching Ah S2, who said he was 36 years of age and was a hawker of cabbages. He testified that some time in the ninth moo#t he had visited a tea shop called Zang Lob at Ong Tsung and that he had met three or four men sitting gambling at a table, who were dis. cussing @ recent murder of two foreigners and complained that they} derived no benefit as there was!
Jittle or nothing in the handbag."
The affair, he learned, took place in the Western District and he sai@ that the men, after recounting other armed robberies and shootings, stated that in the future would have to confine their ties to "foreigners with property."
Later on November 15 oF 16 after he had mentioned the conversation ty some friends he was approached by a man named Yah who on hear ing the story asked him to go to the police station and tell it to the an:
He did as requested and shown some 40 Chinese prisoners lined up, among whom he identified the man who did the talk ing at the tea shop. He had no difficulty in spotting him because of the man's long hair and pointed" out the second accused in the Court yom yesterday as the man, 'The next witness was Wong Zung-sung who described himself ax 'a sawyer temporarily working in a Chinese temple. He had " been. arrested as a suspect in the eas and, while in a cell at Louza Station, had' mot ard conversed with the first of the accused trio. He stated that the prisoner had told him of a shooting case in the Western Dis. trict in which he had taken part the extent of killing and that as he would probably be shot by the police he wished forestall such action by committing suicide, Wong informed the police, after which the accused was placed in a' special cell under constant watch,
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