The evidence of a number of witnesses was heard in H. M. Police Coure on July 7 at' the in quest on the body Mr. Percy Grighton, who was picked up in the Whangpoo River at about ngan on June 29 by the River Police, Mr.
Haines, Goroner, then" JParved the nguene tg July 18 at EIS "pin. ao Be. B.S. Wilkinson, who has' known deceased for over twenty years, and Mrs. Crighton fare not in Shanghai, and are not expected to arrive till jeter S. K. Squires, who formed the post-martens "examina tion on deceased on June 30, said that he was of the opinion' that death was due to drowning: When soft. turned-anda tie cut short some four inches below the knot. By the state of the body, he esti. mated that" death had " occurred Between 28 and 8 hours before he saw it Chinese River-Police Constable 34 gave evidence og to the Anding for the body. On the morning of [Jone 20, he was on duty at. the fentrancé to the Hongkew "Creek.
saw the body come down on the ebb tide. and, tying it to the back Jot the "Police sampan, took it to Wetmore Road 'Station, where he made. his was that of a fa lad in a grey suit, Georges Serrani, River-Police Gonstable, next stated that he took the body' to, the Public 148 pin. The body was search his presence, and the follow: articles" were found: A pair spectacles in a leather case, a small
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