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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1927.

THE PIRACY TRIAL. KOENNECKE'S FLIGHT.

CINEMA DISASTER.

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OFFICER.

CAMPANION REACHES,

HELIOPOLIS.

The trial of the seven

Cairo, Nov, 1. Chinese rarged with the Count Solma, a companion of piracy of the steamer Irene the German aviator Koennecke, has WPA continued at the Central arrived In Hellopolis In an Imperi Magistracy· ` yesterday afternoon.

al Airways machine. He will spend three daya in quarantine and then continue to Germany Réuter.

The principal feature yesterday was the evidence of the Second

Ofeer who identified all the pirates and gave a comprehensive explanation of how each nian be- haved after the ollicers were over- powered.

added that the first and second de- fendant visited the saloon/later.

PROPRIETOR SENTENCED TO TWO YEARS IMPRISONMENT.

Montreal, Nov. 1..

CAPTIVE· HUNTERS.

HOUGHT FROM CAPTORS BY FRIENDLY CHIEF.

"Casablanca, Nov. 1. The Syrian, Ameen". Lawand, The Resident General, Mr. proprietor of the cinema which Steeg, states that the captives are was burned last January, when 78 now in the hands of a native chief children perished, has been sen-who-is-friendly to the French and tenced to two years' imprisonment who bought them from the tribes- and two of his employees, also men who carried them off. Syrians have been sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment each, All were convicted of manslaugh- ter-Reuter.

pirates to leave the bridge. Wit ness also left the bridge and made: for anfety behind a lifeboat on the lower bridge.

The

captives say they are well treated but very tired after the long marches they had to make. Appar ently a very heavy ransom will be Zamanded.-Reuter.

[The captives mentioned werės a unting party consisting of two Indica and two men who were taken captive on October 23.]

According to this witness, the third defendant was the ring. Describing the sixth defendant, leader of the pirate gang and he the witness said that he carried a appeared to have some knowledge kitchen knife in his hand, whilst of navigation. The fourth defen- the other piratea, some of dant (who is represented by Mr. whom were not in Court, had re- Leo D'Almada e Castro, jnr,volvers or "automaties.

The next shot, witness' added, instructed by Mr. Leo D'Almada It was the third defendant wao went through either the Chief Off-xactly the vessel sank, but would c Castro, Sur.) appeared to the searched the witness and, in wit-cer's or the witness' cabin, and as ay roughly that the boat was be- witness as a wealthy raan, as wellness' opinion, he was the ring there was a good deal of woodworkween one or nswell as the most dangerous leader of the lot. Witness' room

in both these cabins, it set fire to shore somewhere to the south was also searched by the third de- the ship.

west of Triple Island. person on the pirated ship.

It was after this shot that the The Second Officer attributed fendant; who, when he found that

the officer had no arms in his quar-second and third defendants took the outbreak of the fire on the Irene to a shot which struck either ters, said "If you have a gun by lifebelte and jumped Into the his own or the chief officer's cabin, and-by, plenty-trouble for you." and set alight a quantity of wood-Witness was interrogated about work.

Mr. T. S: Whyte Smith prosecut

ed for the Crown

arms by the first and second de fendants also, but when the third defendant intervened and explain ed that the witness' room had been searched and no arms were found, the first and second defendant ap-

One of the defendants. objected strenuously to the Court procedure and was only silenced by being re-peared satisfied. moved from Court:

Cross-examined by. Mr. Lee D'Almada Castro, Jar, when the hearing was resumed yesterday

afternoon, Captain J. Ht. Julinsen of the Irene said that he first saw the fourth defendant at about 8.10 a.m. or. October 19, when the piracy broke out. The fourth de- fendant were amongst those who rushed into the saloon where the witness was having breakfast with

other officers,

The fourth defendant was the man who looked into the witness' cabin shortly after nine o'clock.

The next occasion when he saw this particular defendant WOS when he went to the bridge be- tween three and four o'clock.

The Second Officer, continuing, said that he wad not molested and was permitted to move about freely. He went on the bridge shortly after twelve noon on Octo- ber 19 and there he saw many pirates, coming and going. He could remember Nos. 2, 3 and 4 as being amongst those who went of- ten to the bridge,

cident on the bridge, said that on The witness, referring to an in- one occasion he walked a bit too close to the third defendant, who said "Oh, no, no," drew his automatic. Witness got and quickly

out of way in time."

At Bias Bay. The next morning (October 20) Referring to the shooting ai the fourth defendant was seen by Bins Bay, witness said that the the Captain ing on an easy chair hip passed Bite Island at about with a revolver dangling in hisp.m. At that time he was on the hand.

In answer to Mr. D'Almada, witness said he could recognise most of the pirates.

Mr. D'Almada next asked the Captain to indicate roughly how far from and the Irene sank, nad where exactly the passengers were The witness replied picked up. that he would say the ship shak about a mile and a quarter from Triple Island and that most of the passengers were picked up at about the same spot.

Replying to further questions, the Captain stated the first and third defendants were picked up from the water by the L4 and the second defendant was identified as one of the pirates later. The rest of the defendants were picked up by the 15. He saw nothing of the fourth defendant from the time they left Bias Bay until the iden- tification parade at the Central Police Station.

water.

.

two miles from

At this stage the second defen-

He wanted to

innt, who had previously indicat ad that he had no questions to put to the witness, burst out with -Witness declared that it was the 'torrent of speech. He said that last shot which burst the steam- he observed that the White man pipe and rendered the Irene in were doing all the talking and capable. The Second Engineer that he was being given no oppar rushed to the deck from the engine tunity to speak. room after this shot and wanted explain everything there and then, to jump into the sea. He appear and although he was assured that ed shocked and terrorised. „ The he would be given the fullest op- witness and the Chief Officer pre-portunity to explain whatever he vailed upon the engineer to be dosired when his turn came, the calm and told him that the ship man persisted in telling his story, was not sinking. The advice was

which was to the effect that he

apparently listened to for these three men did not enter the water until the submarine came close to the burning.Irene.

At this stage, Mr. Whyte Smith requested the witness to describe during the piracy. Witness said what he saw of the fifth deferidant

he was absolutely sure the Ath defendant was one of those who paid occasional visits to the bridge. Regarding the seventh defend ant, the witness said that he saw him during the piracy with an au- tomatic, but could not recall the exact circumstances under which he met this man.

The Chief Pirate.

Asked if he had anything else to say about the other defendants, the witness added that the first de- fendant was searched on board the

bridge, being guarded by the sixth defendant. The third and fourth defendants ascended to the bridge shortly before a light flashing

stern of the vessel was noticed by witness and a pistol about half a mile away. Witness magazine was found on him. The corrected himself in answer to Als second defondant, said the wit- Whyte Smith and said he did notess, spoke English fairly well and see the signal but that the first represented himself as the chief

e knew of the presence of the pirate. He said he had been submarice was when the first shit itter on a British ship and had been in London and San Francisco. was fired.

He had returned to Chian bat could not find employment and was forced to become pirate.

Mr Whyte Smith: What hap- pened after that?

Witness: As far as I can re- ember, we continued on our course and then the second shot was fired, After the secand shot the Captain, myself, and two or three pirates had a conference as to what we should do. It was suggested that we should lower a boat and make for shore,

Who suggested

Speaking of the third defendant, the witness said: "My observa- tion of this man seemed to indicate to me that he had been a quarter- master before. He appeared to un- derstand the chart and could read the compass and from time to time I saw him check our course on the Mr. Lindsell:

chart and compass." Lhat?

In regard to the fourth defend- Witness: I can't remember,unt, witness said that this man either the skipper or I myself mustwas often on the bridge. He was well dressed and he "swanked twą have done so.

The Second Officer then told the gold watches." He was very ner Court that after the suggestion to Vous and, according to witness lower the boat was agreed to, hereckoning, he was the most dan- called to the boatswains and the gerous man on the ship. He had sailors, but they failed to appear. his ploto! in his hand all the time At that time he observed that the and whenever he met witness he engines were stopped for a while, would have him covered. but started again almost immedia-

Mr. Whyte Smith in re-examina tion proceeded to ask witness how far the Irene was from land at the Lime of the outbreak of the piracy but Mr. D'Almada objected to the question on the ground that it did not arise from cross-examination. Mr. Lindsell agreed, but put the question to the witness himself and the answer was that the ship was about twenty miles from the main-tely. land but only about 11 miles off Ocksau Islands.

Second Officer's Evidence. The second Officer, Mr. A. I' Zatorchkovsky, was next called by the prosecution to give evidence. 1920 but had been on China waters for only six months. He joined

He said he had been in China since

the Irene about four months ago,

He repeated most of the evi dence of the Captain and added

Submarine's Shots,

All the defendants had no' ques- tions, except the sixth man, who claimed he could not understand what was being interpreted. He The second defendant, who was flaklo dialect. This fact he made said that he could only speak the on the bridge, then ordered wit-known to the interpreter in the ness to communicate with the sub- Hakka dialect in which all the evi- marine and to ask them to stop dence was being interpreted to

Witness had no time to him.

firing.

signal but he shouted across to Mr. Lindsell reminded the man searchlight played on the Irene's of the case, whether he could the submarine. Later, when the that he was asked on the opening bridge, witness waved his arms to speak Hakka and the reply had

ttract attention, but with no re- been in the affirmative.

sult.

Describing the shots which

that when the first shots, were fired, he was having his break-

Ordered Out of Court. fast with the Captain, having been struck the Irene the witness, sald relieved a few minutes previously

Mr. D'Almada naked the wit- that one of the shots went through from the bridge. As regards the the stokehold ventilator, which ness where the Irene sank and was The shot told that the Irene sank the next. pirates who rushed the saloon, supported the bridge. this witness identified the third, therefore shook the bridge suvera-day, after the witness had left the fourth and sixth defendants andy and this was the signal for the scene. He could not say where

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