The alleged perpetrators of Keswick Road crime in which Misg) Dorothy Thompson lost her life inf a brutal murder and her companion,! Mr. H. Dudley Law, was seriously wounded, were before Judge Chen and Senior Consul's Deputy Mr. Whitamore at the Provisional Court on December 11 on a remanded hearing into their further activities, and after a short hearing were remanded again, Though the hearing came to an' abrupt end due to the me ability of the Chinese authorities to locate certain files and documents relating to other crimes in which witnesses in the gaol were alleged to have had a hand, and in which the three accused before the court were said to have taken part, the hearing was much facilitated by the novel expediency of the Police Prosecutor, Mr. R. T. Bryan, con= ducting much of his' examination in Chinese.
Two of the thee accused were charged first with the murder of a Chinese in an alleyway off North Chekiang Road on September 8, and the police introduced written confessions from the two in whick they gave the alleged details of their participation and later tuck the police to the scene and pointed out the details of the crime, The Killing of P, C, Blosfield However, the two when questioned by the Court sought seclusion behind the same defence they have already offered in connection with the Keswick Road case, that they knew nothing about the matter and would have signed anything the put before them. But unlike hearing they did not bring up polis torture as the incentive for their admissions.
The widow of the deceased wa: present and offered the brief testi-tony that her husband was wounded nine times and she identified the body. She could not identity either of the necused she did not see the crime committed.
The second charge which was against the third nceuved only, Kwei Ching-wvo, 26, coolie, caused a mild sensation when the Police Prosecutor stated" that he war further held on alleged." parti= ination in the murder of B.C. Miostield in Chaoufoone Road September 29. The accused beings prevent when the crime was commited but claimed part in the actual shooting. The Police introduced his written confession which they claimed was scien voluntarily and further alles fed that the accused took them to the eerie and pointed out the details When confronted the accused would say nothing on the matter other than that he was present when it took place.
Another charge against the first and third accused was for the murder of a Chinese on September 19 in East Kashing Road and here faxain the police introduced con= fessions of the two accused, but the court could get little from. them other than that they knew nothing about the matter and would have signed anything.
The Missing Files In connection with the firs accused it was brought out by Mr. Bryan that he was part of a ang of several who committed this crime and that vig companions already been convicted of the crime and had received sentences which hey sere already serving. In that hearing the name ut the" first aaccued in this Keswick Road crime was brought up, Tsang Aum belay the ringleader of the gan and at that time the police issued A warrant for the above named bit could not find him.
When he was taken into eastedy jin the Keswick Road crime and made the. wholesale confession his activities in the armed robbery ne, the police recognized the name and further charged him with the Kashing Road deed, The Court wished to the participants in the fo tut here it was though the police had their records of the affair the Judge did not hi his and when it was discovered that they could not be found' the ese wae adjourned,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.