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

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I saw a lot of men standing at the door with white handkerchiefs around their necks. Ah Keung was standing there, Ah Kow and Ah [?] had an iron bar in his hands Ah [?] had something like a big nail, Ah Kow came and struck me with the iron bar first, they all commenced and struck me I got dizzy and I tried to get inside the house, I was struck on the side of the chin and the blood ran along my shoulder I was struck with something on the shin that went through my clothes. I was also struck on the knee, I was struck on the left ear. I could not tell which struck me they were all around me the five prisoners in the dock are the persons who surrounded me and their names are [?], Ah Kow, Ah [?], [?] [?] , Ah [?]. When I came to my senses I was in goal. To Mr Drake this was on Tuesday last between 7 and 8 at night I went to the house on Fisgard street, next door to where [?] Kow was killed the second house from Store Street. This is the house I went to borrow the pipe it is a house of prostitution. I was not drunk. I was sober, There was Ah [] his wife and two there in the house I first went to I did not see any white persons there. I was in the house just time enough for her to let me have the pipe. I did not see any people in the street when I went in, there were more than 20 people in the street when