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we could go and take it. I asked delivery of the boat again as we were going out, but the people on board said they had no orders from Unku Allang, and refused to deliver it. When I was about to return to Malacca, the Sultan gave me a letter to the Lieutenant-Governor. I am in the habit of going to Langat. Tunku Allang lives at Bungie Durien.
The prisoners ask no questions.
Yam Tuan owed Hadjee Doraman 108 dollars for rice. When I went to Langat I asked the money from him, and he said that he would give it to me on my next visit to Langat.
William Warne, Inspector of Police at Malacca, sworn, states:-On 15th December last, about 3 P.M., last witness and the first witness informed that a boat was coming in from Langat. I went on board with them; the boat was lying just outside the jetty. Mat Syed pointed out Nos. 4, 5, 7, and 8 as persons engaged in the piracy and murder at Langat. I arrested them. I asked No. 4 if there were any of them had gone on shore, and he said one, Eusope had gone to Campong Ooloo. I sent those already arrested to the station, and went to Campong Ooloo. He was afterwards brought to the station by a policeman, whom I had left there for the purpose. Mat Syed identified him as one of the pirates. Besides the men arrested, there was a Javanese on board the boat, but Mat Syed said he was not concerned in the piracy.
After going in search of Eusope, I returned to the boat which was in charge of the police, and on board I found the sarong produced in a box. Mat Syed identified the sarong. There were many sarongs there, but only one was identified. We found an anchor which Mat Syed also identified, but, in the hurry of leaving Malacca, it was left behind. We also found on board a lelah, loaded; 4 muskets, 2 of them loaded; 1 blunderbuss, 1 6-barrel revolver, loaded; 5 krisses, 2 parangs, 1 knife, and 1 hatchet, 3 ammunition pouches, filled 1 keg of gunpowder, and some bullets; 1 large gong, 2 boxes containing clothes, and 50 dollars in silver.
Mat Syed identified all the prisoners at once.
The prisoners ask no questions.
Mahomat, sworn, states:-I am Sergeant-Major of Police at Malacca. On 12th December last, about 5-30 P.M., I received orders from Mr. Hayward to go with first witness and arrest the persons he would point out. I went with him to a prow in the Malacca river. He pointed out Nos. 1, 2, and 3, and I arrested them. I told them they were charged with piracy. Nos. 2 and 3 followed quietly, but No. 1 tried to stab me with a spear. We found in the boat 2 guns, 3 spears, 1 sword, 3 krisses, and upwards of 100 dollars. Mat Syed recognized the gun and sword bayonet produced, and a spear which is left at Malacca.
No.1.-I told the witness to wait till I adjusted my cloths, but he pulled me and knocked out my teeth.-No.
None of the other prisoners ask any questions.
Daga.-I live at Kubu near Tanah Puti in Sumatra. I went to Langat more or less two months ago, took fish there for sale. I sold two piculs fish to Unku Allang on the 3rd Poasah. He had not paid for them, and on the 23rd Poasab I came down to this stockade, where I met Unku Allang, and asked him for the money. 10 dollars. He asked me for two days' time. I remained here till the 25th. On the 25th, Unku Allang told Kassim to go to Bandar and see if the Chinese were sending money by Hadjee Doraman. At 8 A.M. Kassim (No. 3) went up the river. At 1 o'clock he returned, and said that Hadjee Doraman's boat was coming down at 5 o'clock, and that Chinese were sending much money by it. At 5 P.M. Doraman's boat came down, and anchored outside off Marib; Unku Allang called Musa (No. 4), who was in the stockade, and told him to amok Hadjee Doraman's boat, and bring back the money. All the prisoners were in the stockade at the time, and so was 1. There were others also. The prisoners all went into a boat along with a Batu Barah man, who is not here. Others went in another boat. Altogether there were about twenty men. About 6 P.M. they went to Hadjee Doraman's boat. I also went in one of the boats, not the one with the prisoners. There were altogether in the boat with me seven men. When we got near Doraman's boat, Musa (No. 4 called to Hadjec Doraman, and said he wanted to eat. Hadjee Doraman said "come." They got alongside Doraman's boat, and Musa (No. 4) fired." No. 1 also fired, and then they went on board Doraman's boat, four men, Nos. 1, 2, 4, and the Batu Barah man went on board. They hacked the people on Doraman's boat. Three men jumped into the water. I saw Mat Syed get into the water and hide himself at the stern of the boat. After killing eight people on board, they took the money from the bost and brought it to the stockade, and delivered it to Unku Allang. Unku Allang asked Musa if all were dead. Musa said eight were dead and one had escaped. He said if
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you have not seen him he is dead. There was a Bugis boat near the stockade. I remained in the stockade all night. At 6 A.. Unku Allang came out of the stockade. and saw Mat Syed in the Bugis boat. Unku Allang told Musa to ask the Bugis to give up the survivor. Musa went to the Bugis boat, and came back saying that the Bugis refused to give him up except to the Yam Tuan, as they had found him in the sea. remained in the stockade all that day, so did all the prisoners and Unku Allang. The third day at 6 A.M., Unku Allang divided the money plundered. No. 4 got 30 dollars. No. 1 got 15 dollars. No. 2 got 10 dollars. I do not know what the others got. I only saw the four get their shares. I did not get any share. The same day Unku Allang paid me the price of fish, viz., 10 dollars, and I returned to Bandar, leaving all the prisoners and Unku Allang in the stockade. I returned to Bandar in the boat which brought me from Sumatra, about two coyons burden. I remained at Langat till the end of Poasah, living in my boat. My boat returned to Sumatra, and I left Langat two days after my boat started. The two days I remained I lived in the house of Musa, not the prisoner; I then went to Malacca in a boat belonging to Hadjee Doraman of Langat. altogether six of us went in the boat. Their names were Jinjah, Saman, Hadjee There were Doraman, a Salangore Hadjce, and See Doraman. I was arrested at Malacca in Mah Jin's house.
Hadjee Doraman's boat was not brought to the stockade as long as I was in it. I did not see anything brought to the stockade, except dollars, saw no clothes, arms, bags, or anything else.
The two boats which did the piracy were boats belonging to the people in the stockade.
At the time there were about forty people living in the stockade.
I went along with the people to rob the boat, because Unku Allang ordered me, and
threatened to kill me if I did not go.
It was just at sunset when we arrived at Hadjee Doraman's boat. It was about
8 o'clock when we returned to the stockade, and was still dark.
Musa was a Headman in the stockade at the time; I do not know if there was any other head.
Besides the prisoners, I recognise as being in the stockade at the time Marsat, Sallim, and Judu Mat Awang the people now bere.
I did not see the survivor on the jetty or in the stockade the day after the piracy. Never saw him in the stockade at any time.
By Datu Dagang. Do you know Punghulu Dagang or Datu Bandar?—I know you
and Datu Bandar, but did not give any information to them.
The prisoners ask no questions, say they do not know the witness.
The Court adjourned till to-morrow at 9 o'clock.
February 14, 1874, case resumed.
William Warne, re-called on his former oath.-On the 11th instant, in the morning, I came on shore with Mat Syed. I saw the water-cask now before the Court in the verandah of the stockade, and Mat Syed pointed it out as having been in the boat at the time when the piracy was committed. The same day I went up the river with Mat Syed, and he pointed out the boat before the Court as the pirated boat. It was at the foot of the Jugra brill in a small river about a mile from the main river. The small river was stopped up with trees in two places.
Sergeant-Major Mahomed, re-called-In consequence of information I received I went to a house in Campong Kling, Malacca, on 13th November, where I found the witness Daga. I examined him there and he told me he came from Langat.. I inquired about this piracy from him and from the answers he gave I concluded that he knew a good deal about it. I therefore took him to the station and reported the matter to Mr. Hayward. Daga was then locked up, and he subsequently admitted to me that he was along with the pirates,
By Punghulu Dagang.-I arrested Daga, because of his answers to me. me about twenty men were concerned in the piracy.
He told Tunku Dia Udin.—Daga's boat was near the prisoners' boat when I arrested the others, and the men from it ran away, therefore I went in search of them and found Daga.
Datu Bandar, sworn, states:—I am the Datu Bandar of Langat, I know the witness Mat Syed. I saw him at Bandar Langat after the piracy. I saw him at Mahomed Syed's house. Mahomed Syed then told me about the piracy. I examined Mat Syed about
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