Sergi. Sanbrook and in the middle 0 the road was a Fire Brigade He proceeded to the blockhouse and took 2 908 rifle, which Lieut, Marshall pointed out to him. Witness opened the bolt and took a spent 303 round from the breach. He was then hand-oda spent round (Ex 6) which, he said. wassimllar to the one he had taken out On a table near the door was a el containing four rounds ard a. packet of cheroots which had been opened end two cheroots taken out.
Chinese Potice-Constable 1443 told the Court that on November 4 he was fon duly from 7 pan. until 11 pam, North Thibet Road. Ills yeat war from Kaifeng Road io 20 yards beyond the sentry box. At about 243 heard the sound of a shot and at thir time he was about 20 yards south of the sentry box. He tured round and saw @ man tying on the ground fon the north side of the sentry box. Answering Mr. P. Watkin. Willisms, for the prosecution, he stated that he could see at the time as there was electeie light on the roadway. After the shot he telephoned to West Hong Kew Police station and" then wen back fo the road and drove away 9 rowd of onlookers, who were Chi nese shopkeepers.
Capt. Ernest Albert Smyth, of the Royal "Army Medical Corps, star that at 1030 pam. on November 4 he examined a body at the British Aililary Hospital, a. private forth Highlanders ady. He found warm, There was a Kun: wound, eitrular, one abd a) a Inches' in disneter, situated over the spinous processes of the second and third cervicle vertebrae. slightly 10 the right of the mid line. "There wa. no. exit. Wound, the "bullet Apparently ended somewhere his pinion, death as instantaneous member seeing any wound except a few. bruises. There were tug powder marks so the distance which the shot was fred deen more than one away but, in view of the Wound, mot more than ten yards. Witness added that he did not x the bullet. A wound of th ho said, was not inconsistent with his having fallen on nis back.
Questioned by 'Smyth cald there consequence on the face; nothing, more than a bruise. Here Mr. New'= asked, that as witnesses had stated that both parties stood face 10 face, could the wound have been ant exit' one? To this Capt. Smyth replied that it would have been pra He adder that the man might easily have fallen mortem examination. IN was possible that the vertebrae ower jove would stop a 203 bullet srovseramined by Mir, Newnan that shots in Palestine during Gxhting had seen people wounded by Fle
Arabs but that he had never actually examined people shot ange by rife shots. After evidence bs Lieut Robert Dalrymple alalagan ofthe Seafor He said his shop sas about houses away from the Bri
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