very atrocious and cold blooded murder
of a
Pedlar. The evidence was so
entirely
of a circumstantial character that I should
probably have felt considerable difficulty
in
dealing
with the case had not the
prisoner subsequently confessed. Neither
myself
nor the Chief Justice
or
the
Executive Council could see any mitigating
circumstances in the case and the Criminal
was
therefore left for
Three others
time for Piracy
execution.
were executed at the same
and Murder-
viz
Lee Roon
a.
Hing, Cheong Sin Sooth, and Wong a King.
The
case
of an Arab one
is a class
still too frequent; viz of a fishing boat, which attacks are
the attack by a piratical craft
generally
conducted with a ferocious disregard of
life.
the
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attacking party commencing by
a
discharge of musketry and flinging stink pots on board, followed by boarding where they seize the crew, clear her of everything valuable, and putting her in charge of some
of their own crew, sail her to some
haunt where they sell or
3. In this
piratical
destroy her.
In this case the captured junk
was
chased five days subsequently by Her
Britannic Majesty's Gunboat "Havoc" and retaken.
were
on
found
badly
board
wounded
Four of the Pirates and the wife of the owner by two musket balls. She subsequently died here in the Civil Hospital, and
the evidence being clear, the four pirates
were condemned to death.
4.
As however I subsequently had doubts