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THE CHINA MAIL.

BLAZEY'S FUNERAL

(Continued from page 7.)

STEAMER PIRATED

Meanwhile the Captain and dirt of droppings and dust came SKIPPER

*

Vardigans had picked themselves scattering down. Finally the party- up, found the lantern, and caused of soldiers emerged, dragging be

1 to be rekindled. The Captain was tween them the woman, who had calling to his men to know if they been found hiding in the belfry.

* * had caught any one, but the answer Was that no one had gone that way, to any side of the churchyard.

"Where's the woman?" demanded Mr. Vardigans. There was no reply The pony was standing between the shafte with its head down, unattend- ed.

Mr. Vardigans sent hurriedly out- side to make sure that the tower was being closely watched, but the answer came back that a corporal and four men stationed immediately beneath it had seen no one, and that it was not possible that the fugitive Mr. Vardigana made a sound that could have climbed or been lowered might have been an oath, laid his down that way. hand violently on the coffin, and The Captain was nonplussed. It a shake. It moved light and empty | Having made certain that no one gare under his hand. The Captain else was inside the tower, he turned stared at him. But without further with a blankly weary face towards besitation Mr. Vardigans tipped it Vardigans and demanded to know up. The bottom fell out with a what more was to be done. clatter, some clothes and shavings The Preventive Office, however, scattered on the flags..

Bow appeared grimly certain. He "Damme!" cried the Captain, (cast a sweeping glance round the “evaded!"

men standing to their arms, all but *Can't be far," replied Mr. two, who, having left their carbines Vardigans between his teeth. In- standing against the font, held the deed it was not easy to imagine how woman by either arm, under strict the erstwhile corpse could have orders not to let her go." travelled far. For a man to get out. The Mr. Vardigans took bin of a coffin, even one with a false heavy pistol. in his right hand, and bottom to it, was not so easy. He walked straight up the nave to the must have been quick to have taken great old three-decker pulpit that con- stood against the chancel arch. advantage of the moment's

light was extin-Presenting his weapon direct at the fusion when the

middle of the panel that formed the The porch

was but twelve feet back of the reading desk, he called square, the Captain and Mr. a loud voice that resounded Vardigans had been standing near through the empty place:

"Blazey, the game's up. the arch; the coffin stood stone seat. Even if any one had out and surrender, or I fire on the passed them, could escape have been word 'three"{" possible through the lines of ad-

The acldiers stared; the glared with eres starting vancing soldiers?

guished.

*

*

*

on the

Mr. Vardigans seized the handle of the church door and shook it, but

there was a small door round by the i

It was open.

4

MATE, WIFE

BUTCHERED

Ghastly Crime Near

Tientsin.

THREE ARRESTED AFTER SHIP RUNS AGROUND,

Pirates Intended, To Sell Ship In America. Dairen, Saturday.

Five Europeans are stated to have carried out one of the ghastliest crimes ever perpetrated on the high seas, three Europeans and seven Chinese being' bru- tally murdered, ac- cording to reports received here to-day, from Hoshigaura, the famous resort near Dairen. Three of the buccaneers have been captured. The outrage occurred on the woman steamer "Shengan," formerly the nearly. Opland, while on the journey from her head.

from Tangka, at the mouth of the "One!" shouted Vardigans. No Pei Ho River, just below Tientsin, answer, to movement.

Fo Shanghai. ""Two!" The woman suddenly

Come

a

The vessel left Tangku on June

it was locked. Who had the key? No one knew! The sexton and the wrenched both arms away from the boy stood frightened and mute be soldiers, who had the greatest diff-26, and shortly before the ship tween two soldiers. The Captain culty in retaining their hold of her, sailed, the five Europeans came on "Come out!" cried Vardigans, Board and forced the captain of shouted a reward to anyone who could get in. Then a sergeant sent surveying the woman's agitation the ship to accommodate them. round to the Captain to say that with grim satisfaction.

"Threal" As the words left his When the ship was 200 miles north side that gave upon a vestry, mouth, there was a double report, a from Shanghai, the five buc cloud of smoke, a deafening caneers seized control, killing the Warning his men to keep a sharp reverberation, and the tinkle of fall- ekipper, Captain Vikhman and look-out, the officer and Mr. Varding glass, mingled with the crash his wife and the chief mate, all gans went round in the darkness of splintared wood, and yet another of whom are Russians, and also

sound.

seven of the Chinese crew. The faintly illuminated by the lanterns

The middle panel of the pulpit bodies were thrown overboard. held by groups of armed men. They

within it, The ship's course was diverted bowed low to enter by the small split asunder. From north door, and the sergeant with ghastly white with the lard that was towards Dairen, where the buc- the lantern preceded them! a dozen smeared upon it, protruded the face caneers intended to take on pro- men at the Captain's command came of Blazey, his mouth open, a stream visions for a 34-day trip to the

of blood issuing from his lips, and United States. On the other side of the vestry lifeless from his shattered hiding- his head lolling forward inert and was a stout low door. It failed to

place. yield and, at the Captain's command; the sergeant blew the lock off and lookers saw at the same

But that was not all. The, on- kicked it in. Dazed with the noise that the woman had so well direct ever, the ship ran aground at

moment 4th July in the confined space, the partyed her struggles that by advancing a Hoshigaura. The suspicions of the 19th July stumbled through into the church, few inches, dragging the soldiers police were aroused by the evasive and stood blinking at the ghostly re- with her, she had deftly kicked down answers to their questions and three flections made by the lanterna on all those dim surfaces of marble tablets, the carbine nearest to her, so that it of the men who are alleged to have polished wood, painting and gild- fell, muzzle pointing alterwards, and taken part in the outrage were sub-

went off with the impact on the sequently arrested. The however, are still at large..

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Such was Blazey's funeral. As

On arrival in the United stales the men hoped to sell the ship for $30,000 and her cargo for 380,000.

Owing to bad navigation, how-

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Captain Taudin, age 55 years,

Schuler, age 25 years,

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There was no one to be seen. Not stones. They saw, too, Mr. Vard even when the Captain ordered more gaan drop his pistol, fling up both 10th July lanterne to be brought; even when arms, and fall heavily backwards, all

2nd July the stalls of the choir, the seats of

He lay still. They dragged Blazey's 9th July nave, the various holes and corners body from the pulpit and laid it be

of the place were poked out with side him. swords, and gun muzzles was there

4 result of the inquest, the woman any one to be found.

But when, at length, the door of Was tried for murder, convicted, and the steep narrow steps in the tower hung, the sexton and his boy trans- was forced, and half a dozen men ecclesiastical authorities went fur- ported for life. Moreover, various had clambered up, there came the ther into the matter. The Rector sound of uproar sa great that the was inhibited, the church closed, the very bats of the roof and the age-old living fained to that of Berningham. It was the first mate's wife, Mrs. It was almost as though the old, Azarieff, of Latvian nationality, amuggling inn-keeper had been the who was killed (not the captain's most important man in the village, wife, as was repórted earlier). Ehej married Azarieff in Tientsin four months ago, and was on the way to] Shanghai with him to make her home there.

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Vikhman was an ex-officer in the Imperial Russian Navy. He was unmarried and was aged about forty..

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