STATEMENT OF THE ACCUSED.

CANADA REX vs ING SOO.

JOSEPH WALSH, sworn:

On Thursday 14th I was informed by phone by Mr Best in consequence of what he said I was informed that there was a Chinaman shooting at a white man. When I arrived at the back of the Imperial Hotel there was quite a number of people standing on the top of the bank. I asked where the Chinaman was, I was told he was down the railroad track. There were quite a number at the north-east corner of the bridge. Spencer was standing there he was bleeding, blood running down his face..his clothes were all durty at the time. I walked down the track and saw Murphy and White walking up the track towards the bridge with Ing Soo in the centre. I saw Ing Soo fire two shots. I heard the report and saw the kick up of his arm. The revolver as I saw it pointed was toward the bridge on the west port end. I saw him put the revolver in his pants, revolver produced. I took it out of his pant legs at the bottom, and when I got possession there were three loaded and three unloaded shells. I arrested him and brought him up to goal. In searching him I found six cartridges in his vest pocket. The gun is in the same condition as when I got it, I warned him and he said Spencer had come in there and refused to pay him for a meal and then they had a fight, he said Spencer had called him a son of a bitch of a Chinaman and also had struck him so he got his gun and went to kill him, he also said Spencer had thrown a rock thro [sic] his window. There is a pane of glass in the window and a screen on the outside of the window broken.

CROSS-EXAMINATION. Any shots I saw were random shots.

The above evidence is taken in the presence and hearing of the accused.

(Sgd) Arthur B. Fenwick, J.P.

(Sgd) R.L.T. Galbraith

(Sgd) Joseph Walsh

BC Archives GR-0419 Box 175 File 1913/130 / BRITISH COLUMBIA. ATTORNEY GENERAL. / Attorney General documents.