Averc-
mew faits
all his crew. None of the anything against this statement . . As I was leaving the vessel, he asked me to let him
have
A
Constable to protect him from the
people at night. He said he should land-
his
the next
cargo
day,
and
he had already
rice junk.
That the
board
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identified by the Chinamon who had information. On searching the
given me
rice
a
8 junk I found several arms, and saw
large quantity of blood on deck and in several parts of the vessel.
- Case for the prosecution closed!
Defended.
the prisoners severally state that they had been seized at different times by pirates.
sold it. I left a Constable with him.
saw the prisoner Lun Ahlo-
6 o'clock the same
evening), nine Chinamen
canu..
and told
from the rice
this junk
ow
I
board. About
that they had escaped
meis on
were pirates. They said that
their (complainants') rice junk had been
seized by pirates
that they
on
her
way from Singapore.
were taken on board a pirate boat,
and afterwards transferred to the rice boat
now in harbour, which had also been taken
by the pirates. All the men on
board the
a junk, twenty-five in number,
were
brought
ashore the following morning: Nine only of whom, (the prisoners at the bar),
were
Verdict.
Guilty
Sentence.
Death
(Signed) John Walter Aulone
Chief Justice.
True Copy,
Macle
Colonial
Secretary.