Ford then came to the door, picked up a scraper and struck witness on the head. At this point Aser Khan pointed to a mark on his head. Azzopardi separated them and took Witness to his quarters where he laid down on his bed. He got some more drink from his bunk and went back to the passage, Where Ford was standing. Ford, he added, put his arm around his neck and pulled him down. Both witness and Ford were drunk at the time. After trying to board a sampan witrss went to bed end he did not remember anything else.
At 630 the next morning the donkey man came to the forecastle and told him to change his clothes in order to start work. After breakfast at 8 am. they all sat down on the forecastle deck where. he heard about the accident to Ford, Rowlands stating that some Chinese must have choked him on the steam pipe. At 9 o'clock Rowlands came to him and told him that the police wanted to "see him, following which he was touched by a Chinese at an identification parade and taken to the Police Station. Answering Mr. Newman, witness stated that he had no ill-feelings against Ford or Rowlands and that he did not strike Ford with an iron bar.
Aser Khan added that he had lost two fingers on his right hand when working at the winches of a ship. At the time he was greasing when something came into his eyes like a dark cloud and he did not remember anything afterwards. Evidence of other attacks like this one was then given.
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