Tsang Yoong-we, a food hawker, arrested on the night of September 23, immediately after the shooting of A. Taminato, a Japanese sailor, in Haining Road, was charged with concealing evidence when he appeared before the First Special District Court, on October 9.
'Mr. 7, T. Tsang, Assistant Municipal' Advocate, told the Court that, during the period of remand, the accused had made another statement to the effect that, on the night of the shooting, he went to Haining Road to see a friend and found a Mauser pistol on, the ground. He kicked the weapon and then picked it up and concealed it in a} fand-box. He told the police that he did not report his finding immediately, because he was afraid, when he did s0, that he would be suspected of being the assailant. He intended to report after con-feeling the weapon in the sand:
Owing to the fact that many per= sons had handled the Mauser pistol singe it was discovered, the fingerprints on the weapon were incom-Plele and the police could not tell whether they were the accuse However, one thing was certain, namely, that the bullet taken from the sailor's body was fired from the pistol, Mr. Tsang said, 'A Japanese named Kuroda stated that, on September 23, about 8 pin, he went to Haining Road to meet a friend and a man was walk~ Ing behind him. When witness passed by a shop, the man behind him overtook him and immediately produced a gun. and fired three Shots, Witness described this man as one with a broad chest, wearing a foreign-style sult of dark brown colour. After the shooting, witness hid in a Jane and jeard ' someone pass by him, Then he saw this man hire a rickshaw outside a Japanese church.
'A. \t-year-old Chinese, Tsang Liang-pao, employed by a Korean in North Haining Road, said that, fon the night in question, he w in Ts Haining Road and saw four Japanese sailors come along with two men In front of them. Near an electric Pole, the two men stopped, allowing the sailors to pass by. Then one of the men, in a brown suit, produced a pistol, fired two shots at the sailors and ran away.
Another witness, Wakabashi, said he heard two shais, after which he saw a man run into an alleyway. Witness telephoned a Japanese newspaper and then returned to the scene of shooting, where he saw the accused arrested. The assailant was in a dark green sult, J. Tanabe, a Japanese office clerk, said he also saw the shoot ing and the assailant was in dark grey clothing. Witness was. in Festaurant. The assailant was Chinese, who ran into an alleyway atier the shooting.
The Judge: "How do you know the assailant was a Chinese?"
Tanabe: "His appearance was a Chinese."
The Judge: "The people of the East are all more or less the same appearance, and how ca you tell which is a Chinese?"
Tanabe: "I can distinguish them.
The Judge adjourned the hearing till September 23,
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