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Mr. Taylor: I am entitled to have the answer as it was said. What did he say to your question?

Interpreter: He say No. He says Mann Quann asked him to go up and bring Nam Yuen and get some actors that belonged to the theatre -

Mr. Powell: We will not go into that.

Mr. Taylor: I object to any statement as to what anyone said.

Court: Oh yes.

Q After that episode that he has just told us about, did anyone else come into the room?

Mr. Taylor: I object to that; he was asked if anyone came in, and he said No.

Mr. Powell: He is telling it in his own style, and he gives one answer which is ahead of the one I am getting at.

Mr. Taylor: My objection is being put forward at present. My learned friend asked a question did anyone come into the room, and I took an objection on the ground it was a leading question, and your Honor ruled it was a proper question and not his answer and my learned friend he asked him the question and "No" got his answer, and he now wants to cross-examine on that answer, and now the next question he is asking is did anyone else come into the room. That is a false suggestion, and it is cross-examination on his own question, and he is not entitled to ask this question.

Mr. Powell: Of course you will understand my learned friend is trying to suppress this evidence as to what did take place. I asked my witness a question, and then he begins to tell of another incident. Now, I am going to conduct this examination in my own way and I am not going to be stopped. I think

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