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HAICHING SUSPECTS CHARGED.
GRAPHIC STORY OF THE PIRACY.
WHY THE "S.O.S." SIGNALS WERE
MISSED.
The Second Gang.
the transmitting sparks, he cover, the calls for some time, but without ed the port-holes with a blanket.success. To protect the apparatus He tried again to get in touch but and to atop the pirates from seeing still without success. He was then (3) the possibility of the aerial in ordered with the other officers to ing being earthed or put out of one of the lifeboats, but was Internetion through contact with the recalled by the Captain. He then wooden gasket around the aerial made another attempt to send out leading-in wire.
a call, and got in touch with Cape D'Aguilar and they relayed the messages to H.M.S. Sterling, which was in the vicinity.
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A concise but complete story of Į the attempted pirney on the Douglas The second party of pirates,
Mr. Andrewes also read a state- Lapraik, steamer Haiching on De-numbering some four or five, after
ment from the Postmaster-General cember 8 was related by Mr. L. R. entering the
on the matter. The latter stated stokehold passed Andrewes, Assistant Crown Solici- through to the engine-room. There that he attached no blame whatever to:, in his outline of the case they found Mr. de Mello and confirmed the fact that the calls to the wireless operator, and he against three Chinese who were be
A greaser. They demanded to be
were jambed owing to interferahce fore Mr. E. W. Hamilton al told where the kerosene was kept by a Chinese gunboat and X.O.W. Central Magistracy yesterday on but Mr. de Mello pretended that he (Fonchow). It was to be borne in charges arising from the piracy.
had imislaid the key. The pirates mind that the operator was trans- There were three charges against became angry and made threats, mitting on a wave-length of barely the defendants, Lam Hing, Chan whereupon the greaser showed them 500 meters, which is the inter- Ma Ying and Lam Ming, name where the kerosene was kept, and national code limit. Iy, the murder of the third they broke the tap. officer, Mr. Kingsley Frank Wood- ward; the murder of an Indian Attempt to Burn the Ship, guard Khail Singh; and arined
The pirates allowed the kerosene assault on the Captain and officers of the Haiching with intent to
to Bow over the ngipe-room plates and, attourpted, but unsuccessfully haurder and commit a piracy.
After giving details of the Hai-to set fire to it. Mr. Andrewes re- ching and her complement of off- marked that it was apparently vers, crew, ships Armament, and their intention to start a fire fro position of quarters, Mr. Andrewe, the very beginning. This attempt said that the wireless messages could to set fire to the ship was simul-
said that the crite occurred at
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about 1.10 am. on December 6, taneous with the attack on the alortly after passing Chilang Lightbridge by the other gang.
Mr. de Mello was ordered by the the way from Swatow, pirates to step the engines and about. 60 miles from Hong Kong. dynamo." This put the ship in darkness. The pirates then took
house an
The steamer carried a total of 52 passengers, including four Euro-r. de Mello out of the engine pan first-class passengers.
At midnight Mr. Johnson, the send offert, took over, the watch on the bridge with two Chinese quartermasters. At the same time, Mr. de Mello, third engineer, went on duty in the eagine-room with bur Chinese engineers. Two In- dian guards also went on watch, one patreling the beat deck, the other the starboard alleyway..
High Praise From Captain. Captain Farrar, of the Haiching was full of praise for the wireless operator, who, he said, stood by his post and was always ready, keeping in touch with the officers through- out the attack.
The Traffic Superintenden; of Wireless, in another statement, also
not be received (1) owing to inter- ference from other stations, especial- ly Fonchow, (2) inefficiency of trans- mitter owing to amall wave-length.
room. He went up to the star CLASSIFIED armed pirates. They forced him to board alley-way followed by four walk in front, using him as Shield.
Engineer's Bold Dash,
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As he passed the First Officer's
he identified as the first defendant. cabin Mr. Mello saw a man, whom Carrying on a little farther toward In the Engine-Room. the bridge, he called out to the With the aid of a large plan officers there that he was coming drawn to scale, showing the elern and then, suddenly turning on the tion, plan and section of the vessel, leading pirate, gave him a push Mr Andrews explained at length and kick and ran for the bridge. the design and stucture of the All the officers succeeded in gaining engine-room, coal-bunkers, and the bridge, where a combined de
con- fence was made against the attack stok hold. These dree were |nected by small passage-ways and
of the pirates. hatches. From the engine-room it wna possible by means of fidleys to reach the boat-deck tween decks, and thence gain access to the bridge.
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It was to be remembered that the seat of the fire was near the wire- less-enbin, and in addition to the fact that the ship was plunged into darkness, the operator could not use his set from 2 a.m. onwards.
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An Unsuspicious Cook. "It appears," said Mr. Andrewes, that the first person to see the pirates was one of the cooks. He was going on duty at about I a.m. and was proceeding along the 'tween deck on the port side when he notired six Chinese standing round the hatch of the port bunker, which was open. He asked them what they were diing, and he also looked down and on hearing the shots made his | OUNG MAN dosirea CLERICAL WANTED, Volumes 1902 and 1903
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unusual. When he got aft he heard
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Khin Singh, one of the Indian
The wireless operator about this guards in the cabin, jumped up time succeeded in getting in touch
Singer or Brister Rossnian and. seizing his rifle, stood in the with H.M.S. Sterling, which ar- preferred-wanted,
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Address Box 8920, Hong Kong Daily who opened it. Surta Singh, the from the junks, among who was other guard, was asleep. He will the second defendant. Subsequent- say that he awoke to the noise ofly HMS. Sirdar arrived, and with gunfire, and saw his fellow-guard the help of the Sterling the fre was shot and fall to the floor. He got under control, the Haiching be- jumped up, but was wounded." ing able to get back to Hong Kong
In answer to the Magistrate, who under her own steam. aslaid, if the guard saw who shot Khiul Singh, Mr. Andrewea replied that he only saw the latter fall. Mr. Andrewes remarked, however, that the bullet extracted from the third defendant was from a Win- chester rifle, and only Winchesters were used by the guards. It was concluded that he was shot down by Khial Singh.
Continuing, Mr. Andrewes said that Bhang Singh seized the op- portunity and escaped to the bout- deck and thence to the bridge. His warning had also been heard by the officer on watch, who sounded the siren and called the Captain.
The shots woke up the Chief Officer and the Chief Engineer. The former left his cabin to go on the bridge. Halfway up the com- panion-ladder, he saw a pirate, who shot and wounded him, but was in his turn shot and killed by Mr. Perry, The Chief Officer then con- tinued on to the bridge, and the Chief Engineer also gained the bridge,
The third defendant was arrested by one of the British naval guards, who saw the Chinese staggering out of the Indian guard's cabin,
Statements by Accused.
The first defendant in his state- ment denied any complicity in the piracy. He was a salt labourer of Shatoukok. He asked the matter o he looked into, and for "the
Captain to look up to heaven."
The second defendant said he was a passenger. Mr. Andrewes said there WAS very little evidence" against him, but Mr. de Mello had a slight suspicion about him.
The third defendant said that he wus also a passenger, "but to tell the truth, I did take part in the piracy but did not assault anyone. I could not assault anyone, because I was wounded myself."
Wireless Operator's Story. Mr. Andrewes then read out a report given in by the wireless operator, who would not be called The Third Officer, Mr. Wood-in evidence. ward, on being aroused by the fir- The statement was to the effect ing, proceeded from his cabin along that shortly after 1 a.m. when the the starboard side of the spar deck, attack began, the wireless operator bat managed to carry on to the Hong Kong, sending out" 8.0.8." bridge, where he collapsed. The messages to 0.Q. (all Stations) and Second Officer, who WIN also V.P,S. (Cape D'Aguilar). A Chi-
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