The General's chauffeur said that, on the evening in question, he. was sent by his mistress to meet him at the hotel. Witness parked his car at the north entrance of the building. Some while after 6 p.m. the General came out of the hotel and witness at once got into the ear, opening the door for him, A shot then rang out. Several others followed in quick succession, by someone from a window in the lower part of the hotel.
Later, witness went on, he heard the pattering of feet inside the Yih Ping Shan building, and tried to rush after the murderer.
Loh Sung-toh, a waiter at the hotel, said the occupier of room Mo. 37 had -rented it for tight' days. On the day of the shooting he walked about' outside it until about six o'clock- in the evening; then returned to the room and? locked the door. When witness heard the noise of a shot the man rushed out 6f the room.
Dr. T. O. Waung, who examined the body when it. was taken to the Shantung Road Hospital, said-that he found three bullet wounds.
the absence of a post-mortem. Dr. Waung ascribed the death: as being due to internal hemorrhage-from the shot wound in' the stomach.
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