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1884/16 Ah Keong, attempted murder, big scrap in Victoria’s Chinatown

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saw Ah [?] and [?] [?] with iron bars in their hands, I saw these five men fighting and one tried to keep me off. I saw [?] [?] there but at the time I did not know his name. I saw men striking him, I saw him laying inside the door of the second house. I saw a man come out and bolt the door and go up the street I followed him , the crowd went in to the prostitution house. It was about 8 o'clock when I came and saw the men there, I came up from Store Street, there were five men besides Fing Wy fighting, there were others standing round , they were not fighting, some came out from next door, we heard [?] blow a whistle three times and then other men came out of the house, there were more than 20 people there , they had nothing in their hands, those fighting one had a knife and three others had iron bars .I was close to the one keeping me off he had an iron bar. Fing Wy had a pipe in his hand. I went right in to the crowd. I saw the knife it was bright in the blade I saw about a foot long, I saw him strike Fing Wy on the foot , his body was lying inside the house his foot that is below the [?] was outside I [?] saw him strike him more, I saw the others striking at him more than once but don't know how often.