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FRIDAY, OCTOBER
It was also discovered that the pouch which the guard was wearing on his belt at the time was pune tured. He had also a scalp wound which was the result of revolver shots, but it was possible that the bullet which caused that wound was of a different calibre to the one which proved fatal.
From investigations made by the authorities into the recent piracy and murder on board the atoam launch Sal Kung,, plying between Hongkong and Sal Kung, it was The medical evidence would be discovered that the Piracy Proven to the effect that there was an tion Ordinance was not sufficiently entrance wound in the abdomen complied with in that the grilles and an exit wound in the thigh, were left open when the launch pointing to the fact that the wound. departed on her return trip to the was received by the guard while Colony on the afternoon of Sephe was In, a bending position and tember 13.
that was significant In view of the fact that evidence would be called to show that the guard was getting up when he was fired at, and he would, necessarily be in n sitting position.
Folowing the subsequent arrest of the five alleged assailants, the men were brought before the Kow- loon Magistrate yesterday after noon on charges in connection with the outrage. Charges of murder
Returning to the other guards, and robbery by two or more; were Mr. White-Smith said that they brought against all five defendants wero also attacked at the same time while the third accused was fur- but they did not seem to have got ther charged with being in unlaw-possession of their rifles or if ful possession of arms.
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and went ashoro. When last seen the men were going over the hills of Lung Shun Wan carrying the rifles, and the altache case.
Roturning to the role played by the Police launch, Mr. White Smith said that the launch was tho No. 2. Police, under the com- mand of Sub-Inspector, Perkins. At about 2.30 p.m. It was lying at anchor at Sai Kung. Whon Sub- Inspector Perkins saw the Sal Kung steam off he wondered why she was sailing towards Rocky Harbour and not taking her usual course towards Port Sheltor.
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The explanation was, continued Mr. White Smith, that the launch was not makinig for Kou Sal as usual but was going to Shewan. But the change dn her, course aroused the suspecious of S. 1. Parkins, and he decided to follow her. Labouring under the impres they did they did not appear tosion at the outset that the launch Mr. P. S. White-Smith prosecuted have retained them for any period was going to Lung Shun Wan, he on behalf of the Crown, the de-o time,One of the other two
steamed for that village by an- fendants being all unrepresented. guards was struck on the head by other route, that la, taking the one of the robbers and they both
course around. Chiu Island. jumped overboard.
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Before outlining the case for the prosecution, Mr. White-Smith handed his Worship (Mr. J. H. B. Ni) an Admiralty chart · In' brder that references to the various sta
places which would play prominent parts in the case could be followed By the Magistrate.
Dealing with the circumstances heading to the outrage, which 'although constituting what is commonly known as a piracy is referred to by the authorities as a robbery of the high seas, Mr. White-Smith said that the steam was a ferry
Sai Kung
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Swam Ashore..
The man who had been struck.
over the head was picked up by a THE CARE OF THE CHİLDİ folice launch, to which he (Mr. White. Smithy would refer Inter, The other guard swam ashore and was also picked up by the Police
launch later
Assault followed the robbery continued Mr. White Smith, and the evidence which his Worship would hear, would be to that effects One of the owners of the launch,
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Hongkong. It was fitted with grilles and carried three Indian guards in accordance with the Piracy Prevention Ordinance..
At 2.20 p.m. on September 13, the launch left Sai Kung. Her usual run was from Sai Kung, to Kau Sai and from thence to Hongkong, but on this particular occasion there was said to have been a cargo for transportation to Hongkong, at She Wan and the launch accord- ingly omitted her usual call at Kau Sai and decided to go via She Wan instead.
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The compradore of the launch would inform his Worship that he was in his office. below when one of the pirates ("I may call them pirates," said Mr. White Smith, "although that would be assuming Half an hour after her departure too much"), came up from behind from Sai Kung, she arrived at She and armed with a revolver request- Wan where the cargo was placeded him to produce the keys to the on board but there were no passen- safe. The compradore was udable gers to embark. After a few to identify the man, but he gave minutes' stop she left for Hong-him the keys. The robber opened "kong.
the safe and extracted $520, of
Unlocked Grilles.
It will be doubtful from the cyl-which $300 was in Hongkong ten- cent pieces and the remainder in dence, continued, Mr. White-Smith,
ndtes. how far the Piracy Prevention
The huge supply of silver coins Regulations were complied with
taken from the safe would be bat it was certain that they were significant in view of subsequent not sufficiently complied with. When the launch left Sai Kung, before the Court. One of the pas
evidence which would be brought the grills were evidently unlocked. ATTRACTIVE PLANS On the bridge with the captain sengers would also state that the were the three armed guards and third defendant pointed a revolver three of the passengers, one of, at him and took $15 from his per- son. The woman passenger who whom was a small child,, a man and a woman. The three Win- was on the bridge would say that thester rifles were evidently stack the fifth defendant searched her ed. In a corner on the bridge.
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A few minutes after leaving She Wan, Ave men rushed the bridge and an Indian guard (the de- ceased) was stated to have seized one of the rifles and to have struck one of his assailants on the head. Another of the robbers, who was identified as the third defendant grabbed the quard's rifle, and both men were seen to be grasping the rifle with both their hands,
but she was unable to state whe- ther he was armed. She was re- lieved of a finger ring.".
Launch Commandeered, Coming to the escape of the five mon, Mr. White Smith said that after the robbery, the pirates pro- ceeded to take charge of the steer ing of the launch. The third de- fendant, who appeared to have been the leader, pointed a revolver at the coxswain and ordered him to steer for the open aca.
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In the struggle which ensued, the evidence would show that the Indian guard fell to the ground. "On attempting to get up the third icfendar was seen to draw his the coast a couple of miles from revolypy End Bre at the Indian. Sai Kung when a Police launch More the shot was fired and Mr. White-mith thought, it was prehabent some of the other defendanis fired as well. One of the sin entered the guard's abdomen it was as the results. of that wow! that, he died in the Kowlope 1 unital three days later.
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