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Karikal Lane houses : general view [1]

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This 1986 photograph shows two-storey terraced houses at Karikal Lane. Title devised by Library staff.

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All rights reserved. Lee Kip Lin and National Library Board, Singapore 2009.

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A kiss of good wishes for the future from Joan Cornelius to her brother Mervyn at his 27th birthday party at Karikal Lane, near East Coast Road
[ON MONDAY NIGHT, MADAM CHAN WAS WASHING HER FACE AT A SINK IN THE HALL. THE TWO BOYS, LYE WOO AND KOK HOO WERE SHARING A NEWSPAPER. A NEIGHBOUR, MISS MARY LIM AND A LODGER, MISS MAGARET LIM WERE IN THE HALL. SUDDENLY THREE MEN APPEARED IN THE HALL. THEY HELD THE HOUSEHOLD AT BAY WITH A REVOLVER AND A DAGGER. THE THUGS GAGGED AND BLINDFOLDED THE TWO BOYS. WHEN THE KIDNAPPERS TRIED TO TAKE AWAY LYE WOO, MADAM CHAN ANGRILY POUNCED ON TWO OF THE MEN. IN THE STRUGGLE, ONE THUG STABBED HER ON THE ARM WITH A DAGGER. THE KIDNAPPERS LEFT BY THE BACK DOOR AND DISAPPEARED INTO THE BACK LANE.] THE HOUSE IN KARIKAL LANE, SCENE OF THE KIDNAPPING.
[MADAM CHAN SEOK CHENG HAD HARDLY ANY SLEEP SINCE MONDAY NIGHT, WHEN HER SON WAS ABDUCTED AND WAS TOO ILL TO GO TO THE PHONE. LYE WOO WAS ABDUCTED FROM HIS KARIKAL LANE HOME BY FOUR THUGS. TWO TELEPHONE CALLS TO THE MOTHER WERE MADE WITHIN 24 HOURS OF THE ABDUCTION. THE THIRD CALL WAS MADE LAST NIGHT.] MADAM CHAN ... SLEEPLESS NIGHTS SINCE MONDAY.
[SEE LYE WOO, A PUPIL OF THE KONG HWA SCHOOL WAS ABDUCTED BY THREE ARMED MEN FROM HIS KARIKAL LANE HOME AT ABOUT 6.50 PM ON MONDAY. HE IS THE SON OF SEE AH WANG, A TIN MINING CONTRACTOR AND BUSINESSMAN IN DUNGUN, TRENGGANU AND MADAM CHAN SIOK CHENG, THE SECOND WIFE OF MR SEE.] EXTRACT FR TEXT: [MR SEE AH WANG, A CONTRACTOR FROM DUNGUN, ATTEMPTS TO COVER THE FACE OF HIS SON, LYE HO, AS THE FLASHBULBS POP IN SINGAPORE.]