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THE "SUNNING" PIRACY at Hong Kong when the thirteen suspects

CASE.

** BLUEBELL” OFFICERS GIVE

EVIDENCE

were handed over to the Police."

Cross-examined by Mr. Lo, witness said that he principally locked for arms when he prst searched the various suspects. This was also the case with regard to the sixth accused. In addition to the watch and pendant they found on this man two, small notebooks. He would be surprised to learn that when the sixth accused was searched by the police a

THE CHIEF PIRATE DROWNED? watch and ornament were found on him.

He remembered the watch referred to because he took it out of his baversack

looked at it.

THE SHIP'S CARPENTER. Lo informed his Worship that a

DISCHARGED.

Eighteen witnesses, havo now given evidence in the ease at the Central Magistracy in connection with the piracy of the s.3. Sunning. When the hearing is resumed again this morning the evidence of the Indian Guards of the Sunning will be taken..

Yesterday the stovedore of the Sunning, who on Tuesday told how he was com pelled with the ship's carpenter to enter No. 6 boat, and to take money from the pirates, was cross-examined. The Second Engineer was also recalled, and

In the afternoon two Naval Officers and two Naval ratings of H.M.S. Blue- bell gave evidence of the boarding of the Sunning by an armed guard and the arresting and searching of thirteen suspects.

From the description given by one of the Naval officers, it seems likely that a man who jumped overhaard and was drowned was the Pirate Chief, on the

Sunning.

At the conclusion of the hearing the

Mr.

watch was actually found on the sixth accused by the police, and suggested that the witness might have been mistakes. in thinking be found this watch on this particular accused,

Witness said he felt pretty certain about the finding of it.

Further questioned, witness said that he put all articles found on the suspects (about twenty articles) into 2 paval baversack. He sorted them out some twenty-eight hours later and handed them to a police officer, stating from which man each article had been taken. The articles he took from the men and those the Leading Seaman with him took were put into the same haversack, and remain- ed there until the police arrived.

John Edward Bird, Leading Seaman on! H.M. S. Bluebell, garə corroborative avidence as to the armed guard boarding the Sunning and the arresting" and searching of the suspects. The man ar- rested in the afternoon, on the Sunning, witness failed to recognise in Court identified the watch and chain referred to, but did not know from which accused it was taken.

Chief Pirate Drowned?

19th accused, who was represented by .ant William James Ranklin, and also

J. A. Gordon Leask, of Messrs.

Hall Brutton & Co., was discharged.

Sievedore Questioned. Re-called at the morning hearing for cross-examination the stevedore said that the 2nd defendant was the last man to slide down the rope into the lifeboat."

Mr. Leo d'Almada (defending the 2nd man): Was he armed?-He had no

firearms.

The next witness was Surgeon-Lieuten- acting Paymaster on H.M.S. Bluebell He spoke of the Bluebell leaving the burning Sunning at about 11 am, on the 16th and about an hour later picking up the No. 6 boat of this vessel. At that time the Bluebell was proceeding in the direction of Bias. Bay. All the men in this boat, except one, boarded the Blue- bell, alter, the beat had been made, fast to the mab-o'-war with a rope. The re. maining man actually put one foot on the bottom rung of the ladder, but ap- pearing to change his mind about board- Mr. d'Almada He might have been ing the Bluebell, went back into the behind you rowing I did not see him.beat, hesitated for an instant, and then Mr. d'Alinada: Did not one or two dived over the side. Witness rushed alt cars break-No.

of the Bluebell, which had a little way on, owing to the rough sea and current, although the vessel's engines were stop. ped.

Mr. d'Almada: Like you, he was forced to take an oar 7-No.

Mr. d'Almada: How many ears were there four or five.

Cross-examined by Mrs. Leask, witness said that in the life-boat, he was sitting astern and the 10th prisoner was forward. Mr. Leask: So be would be nearer the pirates than you?-The boat was very

small.

Mr. Leask: Did you at any time see him threatched with frearms to row faster 1-No.

Mr. Leask: When you saw him being handed the bundle of hank notes, did he make any effort to refuse them He had nd alternative but to take them. He was threatened with being shot.

Mr. Leask: When you got on board the Bluebell, were all the occupants lined up and searched Yes.

Mr. Leask: You were standing quite close to No. 19 whilst you were being searched-There was one man between

TON

Mr. Leask: Did you hear No. 19 make a statement 1-1 heard him any some thing in English to one of the officers who was searching him.

Mr. Leask: When you spoke to the Cantonese steward and explained bow you got your money, did you may say thing about No. 10-Yes.

Mr. Leask: Do you know whether it is a practice of members of the crew to buy and sell diferent currencies between Shanghai and Hong Kong.Possibly they do that.

Mr. Leask: A man might buy copper cents in Shanghai and convert them into dollars in Amoy and make a profit - Some do

Witness threw a life line to the man, which passed practically over his head, quite close to him. The man did a sert of back band stroke, but made po attempt to take hold of the line. Wit- pess then threw a second eline to the man in the sea, which fell about two yards short. The man this time made an attempt to get it but the sea was too. heavy for him, and he went down. His body could be seen just below the surface of the water, for about a minute. In the meanwhile a number of the Bluebell's men had got into the No. 0 bost, ard. directed by the Captain of the Bluebell, from the signal bridge went in search of the man. The man, however, was not teen again.

Appeared To Have Been-Wounded.

Asked by Mr. Holmes if he could de-! scribe this man, witness said he wore a felt Homburg hat with a very wide brim. He had on a dark Chinese coat and Chinese trousers, and bad gold in the front of his teeth. The man appeared to have been wounded in one of his wrists, for witness saw blood in the water when the man dived over the side of the boat.

A Careful Search. Witness then went on to describe how the eight men who had boarded the Bluebell from the boat were marched aft, where they were numbered on the back of their clothing, and afterwards searched. Witness said that a rug, taken from the boat was spread on the quarter deck gratings, and this was also number- ed in the same way. On the correspond-

Re-examined by the Crown Solicitor (Mr. H. K. Holmes) witness' said that he did not use an oar to steer the life-boat.

Mr. Orr, the Second Engineer, recalling numbers to which the men bore on ed, said that he remembered noticing that their clothing the various articles found the No. 1 pirate had prominent cheek-on them were placed. The articles in bones and that ho showed a number of turn were placed in sealed envelopes, gold teeth when he opened his mouth.

"Sunning" Boarded.

The next witness called for the Crown was Sub-Lieut. Edmund Wybergh Thrus ton R.N., H.M.S. Bluebell.

Witness said they sighted a burning ship at 4.30 a.m on November 16th. The Bluebell was then ten miles from Che land Point. She steamed towards the barsing ship, which she found to be the Sunning. Nearby was another merchant vessel, the Kaying. A heary sea was run ning and it was not possible to get one of the Bluebell's boats lowered. Witness went to the Sunning on one of the Kaying's boats.

Mr. Holmes: What did you do on board the Sunning-I rounded up all the Chinese I could see, and, assisted by the Captain and Chief boatswain, picked out all suspected pirates. About fifty were present at the muster. There were two wounded men on the deck and one pirate had already been tied up.”

Continuing, witness said that he search ed the forward part of the ship, but did not find any other Chinese. The ship was burning fiercely at that time. An- other man was added to the party at about 3 p.m.

Witness was able to iden. tify that man as the 6th prisoner in Court

Mr. Holmes: Fd you search, him Yes.

Mr. Holmes: Did you hear him speak. ing at all -Yes, very volubly.

Witness identified a gold watch, chain and pendant which were found on the 8th defendant when searched.

Mr. Holmes: It may help Mr. Lo if I Bay at once that no one has claimed. these things. For all we knew, they may be his private property,

The hearing then adjourned until the farm THE AFTERNOON HEARING,

similarly numbered, and "Inter handed over to the Police. Among the articles found were a motor tyre, a loaded re- volver and some pistol ammunition, Everything found on the men was handed over to the police who boarded the Bluebell at,Bias Bay.

In reply to a question by Mr. Gordon Leask, on behalf of the 19th accused, witness said this man did not offer any explanation as regards the $1,000 in notes found on him. At first witness thought he was trying to disobey orders, but it might have been mere fright.

The evidence of the above witness was corroborated by Francia Edward Harris, Master, at Arms on E.M.8. Bluebell, who said that eight men were searched and there was also a wounded man, who was kept separate from these. In all there were ten men in the No. 6 boat, but one jumped overhoard. Later the eight pri- soners were transferred at Bias Bayto H.1.8. Findictive. Later witness went in a launch with the wounded man and the sealed articles found on the men to the Findictive.

19th Accused Discharged. Speaking with regard to the 13th sc. cused, in reply to Mr. Leask, witness said this man appeared to be in too much of a fright to make any statement.

This concluded the evidence for yester day.

Mr. Lindsell anked Mr. Holmes whether he thought it was worth puraning the case against the 19th accused in view of what had transpired

Mr. Holmes: No your Worship, I don't. I don't think it would be right to do so.

Mr. Lindsells The 10th accused in dis- charged.

This accused left the Court still in the very bewildered state, he has been in all through the Court proceedings.

Mr. Leask said he would like to thank the Crown for the attitude they had taken In the afternoon Sub-Liest. Thruston | up with regard to this accused.net again entered the witness box. He said At this stage the hearing was adjourned that he remained in charge of the armed until 11.30 this morning, and will be con- guard on board until the Sunning arrived tinued again this afternoon.

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BATTING AND BOWLING AVERAGES.

Below will be found the best batting and bowling averages of the League. Averages show individual form, but they cannot be taken as comparing accurately the players one with another.

In batting, runs are got at different times and circumstances and it does not follow that the man at the head of the averages is the best Iratsman. A convincing proof of this is the case of Hobbs. It was not until last year that be topped the County Batting Averages, yet be has been England's best betaman for many years.

In bowling, there are the opening and change bowlers. Opening belers attack the best opposing batsmen, while change, bowlers have. usually, casier players to deal with. Fast and slow bowlers have their value also. It is, therefore, extremely difficult to judge from the averages who the best bowlers are.

The figures, however, are very helpful and interesting and for these reasons they will be published week by week,

Players.

A. W. Hayward. (H.K.C.C.) Licut. Hankey (K.O.S.B.),

E. U. Fineber (C.5.0.C.)

A. A Ramjahr. (U.) H. N. Balhatchet (U.)

- B. D. Evans (C.S.C.C.)

S. H. Ismail (LR.C.)

E. Zimmern (U.)

A. H Madar (Í.R.Q.) G. R. Sayer (C.S.C.C.) Lieut. Wright (RA)

E. J. R. Mitchell (H.E.C.C.) A. B. Hamson (C.C.C.) Sergt. Jones (RE. and S.) J. Š. A. Curreem (1.R.C.) T. E. Yeoh (C.R.C.) W. H. Sling (U) Q.M.S. Roberts (R. E. and S.) Sergt. Jolly (RA) Capt. Thorp (K.O.S.B.)

-Not out.

Players.

N. H. Ross (K.0.0.)

H. Owen Hughes (H.K.C.O.) ..........

F. J. Ling (C.S.C.C.)

Vallack (H.K.C.C.).

G. R. Sayer (C.S.C.C.) Lieut. Col. Cantrell (R.N.) Capt. Dobbic (K.O.S.B.) E. B. Reed (C.S.C.C.) A. A. Ramjabn_(V.) A. H. Madar (I.R.C.). H.-F. Un (C.R.C.)

Ng. Ste Kwong (Ú.R.C.) A. C. I. Bowker (H.K.C.C.)

Players.

W. H. Sling (V.) A. S. Suffiad (1.R.C.) H. A. Alves (Recreio) Lieut. Comdr. Grant (B.N.) Lieut. Palairet R.N.)

T. D. E. Pendered (C.8.C.C.) C. J. Alexander (P.R.C.) A. E. Lacey (PRC) W. D. Gibbs (Tamar) H. M. Xavier (Recreio) Lieut Neale (Tumar) R. O. Reed (Recreio) Lieut. Norris (B.N.) H. Cooper (Tamar) "M. Pinna (Recreio).

J. B. Ackber (I.R.C.). F. G. Bevia (K.C.C) .......

•Not out.

Players,

A B. Ismail (LR.C.) H. A Alves (Recreio) Lieut. Norris (R.N.) ... Pto, C. Lake (B.A.0.C.) C. J. Alexander (P.R.C.) W Hyde. (K.0.0.) "A. E. Lacey - (P.R.C.) Sirdar Khan (I.B.C.) 3. V. Gittens (U.) Dale (Tamar) H. Westlake (C.8.C.C.) B. Chan Wah (U.)

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DIVISION I

Batting

195

D. of

Host Times Inns. Runs in inns. not out. Average.

#3*

195.00

1

119

101*

.

119.00

.3

93

5G

03.00

83

62*

83.00

137

88.30

3

118

58.00

+

70

47*

30.00

69

43*

34.50

06

32.00

120

30.00

50

$95.00

48

$3.00

23.00

23.00

29.25

22.00.

22.00

99.00

21.00

31

20.00

DIVISION I.

'Bowling.

Buna.

17

Wicketa.

Average.

5

3.40

25

5.00

89

12

6.16

-37

7.10

74

8.92

50

6.33

67

8.18

52

8.66

81

8.00

85

ย

9.55

771

10.01

115

11

10.45"

57

11.40

DIVISION II. Batting

No, of Ins.

Most

Times

Runs in inns. not out. Average:

60. 14

1

€0.00

2

1.

83.00

44.00

41.50

36.00

0

35.00

33.25

33:00

-32.50

28.33

27.00

25.90

25.00

24.50

24.00

25.50

20,00

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DIVISION II, Bowling.

Runs.

91

Wickets. Average

4.90

47

5.22

6.00

136.

6.18

121

6.72

55

4.87

100

7.01

.45

7.50

10

7.84

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*7.85

47

8.90

35

.8.78

44

8.80

81

9.00

46

9.20.

̈9.28

132

9.42

10.00

Batting: more innings to count. Bowling:-5 or more wickets to 'count..

T. Gutterres (Recreio)

M. Pinna (Recreio) -

- J Hinton (H.K.C.C.)

C. Bara (C.S.C.C.)

B. N. Sudan (L.)

T. DE. Pendered (C.S.0.0.)

GAGGED WITH CUP.

ARMER BOBBERS' EXPLOIT IN

THE CITY.

Armed robbers gained admittance to No. 74, Des Voeux Road Central, early yesterday morning, and gagged a motor driver with a small Chinese porcelain wine cup. They decamped with jewellery and money amounting to $400,

The men were stated to be armed re- spectively with a revolver and a dagger. So far they have eluded arrest.

BANISHEE TO BE IMPRISONED AND WHIPPED.

Banished from Singapore for twenty years, and later banished from Hong Kong, a Chinese appeared at the Central Magistracy yesterday, charged with re ceiving a rug which had been stolen. Another man was charged with the theft.

The rug was stated to have been stolen from a passenger's baggage on board ship.

The banishee was sentenced to ten months hard labour and ordered 20 strokes with the birch The other defend- ant was sent to prison for a month.