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tying.Tlit* prisoner pronounced the doctor’s evidence ;ill correct; hut wished to show the court that his body was also covered with scratches. He said that the blood on the clothes did not come from the scratches.Dr. Milne said that the blood on tie* socks was caused by a spurting vessel, evident 1 y an artery.The prisoner here appeared to regret that he had pleaded guiltv, and claimedt li.it i ne s stains. 1\ lt;mus on ms socks were opium *' e said that it was probable that t he spots on his sleeves might also have been caused by his wiping his face, which often bled, with his sleeve. He wished to ask the doctor if lie was sure the stains were not onium stains ?Dr. Milne said tlu he believed tin* stains to be blood at; ills.Yip Chong gave evidence corrohoialive of that given by his wife Ah Sam.Otlieer Lindsay deposed to going to the house in which the murdered girl lived, on Sunday evening. Found the body still warm..Joseph Saunders, Chinese interpreter, said that he was in the city lockup on Tuesday evening, and heard the prisoner confess that he murdered the girl.Chief Sheppard on being sworn, said: Last evening at about seven o'clock 1 removed the prisoner from one cell to another. He seemed very weak, and 1 assisted him. 1 said “There is some blood on your clothes ?’ “Yea,” lie said, “1 kill You Cum myself. She live neyt door. I live upstairs. 'That woman all the time talking to white men. 1 could not sleep. She all the time calling out. I get one big lish knife. 1 go down stairs. 1 see this woman with her head out of the window. 1 eateli hold of her head with my•left hand, and with my right hand I cuther in the neck twice, and then throwknife away, and run aw'uv.” After* 1 —wards lie said, “Suppose you want to hang me ? 1 no care.” 'The Supe’ intendent of police also gave evidence inregard to the position of the body whenhe visited the house on T’Cgurd streeton Sunday night.••Ah W ing, police court interpreter.
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Victoria Daily British Colonist
Victoria, British Columbia, CA
Thu, May 16, 1889
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