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