Witness continued:—"I was terrified, for I knew he hiad been shot, but I did not know where. I let the pistol fall to the floor and picked up my cap and belt and went out. T went down in the lift and on to Amoy Road Gaol, where was billeted. There I saw a sergeant and told him to ring up Capt, Harvey and tell him his' boy billet."
Witness denied that the decease? shout Lit Lit" Te was only about a minute before witness left the flat after the shooting—just time for him to put on his cap and belt. He did not know how the pistol came to be loaded. He knew Capt, Harvey did not keep it londo ed. Witness had cleaned it but never kad loaded it- The boy had seen witness cleaning both the sporting gun and the pistols and had shown the greatest interest in the operation. He always asked how the gun was put together and how the pistols worked, but witness never kad shown him.
Witness did not think the first! shot was fired intentionally. After: the incident, he was flushed, excited, us, and he was not in a jon to make a statement. He appreciated that he had made 'a mistake when opening his statement and that was why he said afterwards that he did not know what happened after the first shot.
Some time previously he had a trifling quarrel with the boy. The Latter, during Capt. Harvey's, absence, had used an electric iron and allowed the wire to burn, thus endangering the property in the flat. When' witness remonstrated, the boy only laughed, so witness slapped his face. The boy later he was sorry, promised to get 'a new wire and asked witness not to tell Capt- Harvey. Since then they had been good friends.
Mr. Harris—On your oath, did you intentionally shoot the boy?
Prisoner—I did not, sir.
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