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7.
very
AGAW
brutal murder of a European
Mr. Meya
and her infant.
board a ship in the harbor by a
couple of days to Houghtong where the
was tried and executed.
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Last January a very
atrocious
The hill
the taon
a
an
officer named
Coolie who had concealed himself in the night on board the ship for the purpose of robbing.
8.
One of our most active Inspector of
Police Mr Daly obtained
Daly obtained a probable
clue to the perpetrator of the
murder and
tracked him to the Mainland. At his request the Authorities of Kowloon furnished him with soldiers and warrants of arrest till he had followed
every
up the
murderer to his native village,
and there his family
were
compelled by
the Mandarins to give him up, so Mr Daly returned with him in a
ship.
M
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Holworthy of the Military Store Department.
The body
was rifled and amongst other things taken was a watch and chain.
This Government may be said to have anxiously employed night and day every agency that could be devised since the occurrence of the murder to discover the perpetrators.
Mr Deane, as Head of the Police, was of course busily engaged in noting and analysing all the evidence procurable, and at last succeeded in getting, as he thought, two