The inquest on Miss Dorothy: Annie Thompson, found shot dead Keswick Road on October 3, with Be. H, Dudley Law lying seriously: wounded a short distance away, was resumed in H. M. Police Court on Priday, October 12, The Fatal Wound When he got into the main roat, hho met his comrades, and. they talked for a few minutes before starting home for the camp. Just fas they started they heard the sound of something they took to be crackers, but thought nothing of it. On the way back he told them about "the Chinese who had ran The fire to testify was Dr. Austin Darley Wall, who stated that he had examined the body of Miss Thompson at 12.15 p.m, on Thursday, October 4, and found marks of two separate bullet wounds, The first was in the right side of the chest, close to the right The entrance wound was in front between the third and fourth ibs, and the exit wound behind between the ninth and tenth ribs, the bullet having passed through the right lung. This was the fatal, wound, death being due to haemorrhage of the lung.
The seonnd wound, he said, was transversely across the body at the level of the basevof the spine, the bullet passing through both bu tucks, This was only a flesh won?. The only other abnormalities were an abrasion on the point of the chin and another on the right forearm.
He could not tell from the natur'
The wound lung was sufficient to cause death in Tetween 10 and 80 minutes, according tw the rate of the bleed: {ng In his opinion, Miss Thompson would not necessarily be conscious sites Teesiving the wound, She Twould the unable to struggle with anyone after being wounded, bat might have been able to roll of the round, He had out out a piece of the elvess Miss Thompson had been swearing, just where the-fatal ballot hurt entered, and given this to the police, as there seemed to be slight marks which might assist in telling from what distance the bullet had won fixed. The plete of cloth wa" produced and handed in as an exhi After him, He had not noticed particularly hat clothes the Chinese beside the reoil had been weaving, but thought one of them had a long gown on. He did not take much notice of them as he had been walking fast. The whole time he was in Keswick Road was between ten and 15 minutes, and while there he had not seen-any others on the road beside the two Europeans, the four Chinese, and the Chinese who had van after him. The two Cure. peans wore just walking along, doing nothing.
The Drive in the Car Wa Yoh-hsi, a chauffeur employed by the Taylor Garage, gave evidence that he drove car round to the Shanghai Club at 5.05 p.m. on October 3 and picked up MY.
Law, whom he recognized through having driven. him in his ear before, and took him to the Victoria Nursing "Home. After raiting about 10 minutes, Me, who was sitting in the eat, was Joined by a foreign lady, and he drove them to the corner Boone and North*Szechuen Roads, sus they suid they wanted to go to 2 shoe shop.
From there he took them to Jessfield Park, where he heard Bf. Lave ask the Indy if she would Tike into the park. She answered that was too Into. "Mr. Law then signed the chit, which he identified, sand he drove back to the garage. The time My. Law dismissed the car was 610. pin, and he had checked the time with his wrist watch, He reached the garage again at 6.25 p.m, The next witness was Ernest John Hinnels, " private inthe 2nd Bi. The Suffolk Regiment, He state ed that on the afternoon of October and two mates. went out for a run from their camp at Jovsfield Park, "round by Jewsfield Rail way" Station, to "Brenan Rond, down Keswick Rond, and making a circle brok to the camp, They lett feamp int 6.10 pan. and. when they reached the corner of Kenwick Rond he stopped to do some roa work or walking, and allowed his comrades to go om.
The spot he selected for his road work wax before n small. tempt out five foot high and eight fest ide, in_Keswiek, Road, where he waked fast up. and down over distance—of about 300 yards, 'While doing this he saw two Euro-poona, n man and a women, approa~ thing' from the north, but he did not take much, noti it getting dusk, As they' appranched, hho passed them three times, and the third time one of them sai As he had not heard than digtinetly, he did not reply.
He then decided to go back to the camp, and say about 15 to 20 yards in front of him, before he had Walked far, four' Chinese -at the fide of the road. When he had passed them about 30 yards, he Tooked buck and noticed that they had "spread. out over the road, one Jing. in the middle, one on each alway: at the road. He thought thing of thi rand broke into a
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