each with three public floggings of 25 strokes each time within the next six months. The attack took place on the 25th November last about 7 o'clock p.m. to nearly opposite the western Slaughter houses.
The boat from which the opium was taken left You Ma Tee in British Kowloon about 4:30 p.m. It is owned by a shop Keeper there, and the owner and three men were in it at the time of the attack. The pirates approached the pirated boat firing pistols and the two prisoners, being armed with large pistols and swords, boarded the shop Keeper's boat threatening to shoot the crew if all the opium was not given up.
The Shop Keeper states that the prisoners, who were dressed in uniform, demanded the Bill, and that he gave them a bill for 15 Balls of opium, which one prisoner put in his pocket saying that it was all right. They then took the opium and one of the men of the attacked boat and made for Kowloon. The attacked boat followed as well as it could with two oars, but soon lost sight of the robbers.
Next morning, the Police Inspector, to whom the complaint was made, went with a party of Constables to a shed in Tsim Sha Tsui, a little village in British Kowloon, and there found ... two of whom were ...
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