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entrance, which are in the hands of the Japa- nese are bombarding Huang island.
Last night, without encountering any resist ance, the Japatose destroyed the booms in the barbour for a distance of about 400 metres from the eastern shore, and to-night they will set about destroying more obstructions.
There has been to firing from the Jih forts to-day, and they are very probably evacuated.
Of some ten torpedoes capture! by the Japanese three were taken last night. The remainder are now being floated by the fourth Japanese fying squadron. Since the Japanese torpedo boats escaped from the harbour the Chinese are firing their machine guns every night regardless of whether the Japanese torpedo-boats are at- tacking or noti
TROUBLE IN FORMOSA.
MEN-OF-WAR DESPATCHED FOR THE PROTEC- TION OF FOREIGNERS.
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
course, took steps to at once arrest Nawab Shah, who was in the barracks, and then enfronted him with the dying man, who was a sergeant in the regiment, Khan, when he caught sight of Yes, the aconsed, who is a corporal, exclaimed that is the man who shot me." The prisoner was then charged with the murde, when he denied all knowledge of it.
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[February 20, 1895. affair. We also searched the waste ground lead- ing to the barracks. I afterwards went to the barracks and saw Colonel Barrow, who was mak- ing a search there..
Mr. Wodehouse-Was the bullet 1. ft in the person P.
Witness-I do not think so; the ballet seems to have gone in the back and penetrated the left
There are two holes. breast.
Mr. Wodehouse-Did you make any search for the bullet in particular?
Witness-No, your worship. Well, if it had been on the road I should lave found it.
Mr. Wodehouse-It would have been well to
do so, would it not? The bullet has come out of the person:
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Witness If the bullet had been there, your worship, I should have found it. I searched for anything.
Mr. Wodehouse-What you were looking for was the revolver.
Witness-Yes, and blood stains.
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Inspector Corcoran has charge of the investi- gation of the crime, and his task is by no means an easy one. Except for the statement of the victim, he has no evidence that the prisoner is the murderer. the crime was enacted is most favourable The particular spot where for the commission of a crime of this sort and for the easy escape of the murderer. Running for a cousiderable distance along the Macdonuel! Road are a large number of godowns and on the opposite side is the military ground where the barracks are situated. It is quite certain that the murderer must have escaped into the bar racks, for after the shot and a loud cry of the wonnded man were heard, only a few seconds elapsed ero Mr. Wilcockson and the dockyard officials wore ou the scene. As they came Serious trouble of some kind has broken out
from opposite directious they could not possi| in Formosa and men-of-war are being sent for bly have missed the murderer if bo had ruu the protection of foreign life and property along the road It would only take three seconds Various rumours have been in circulation as to for the culprit to scamperover the rough turf lead. blood, although the place was thoroughly the character of the trouble, one being that Liuing to the military barracks. He would then b;searched; the roofs of the godowns were also Jung-fu's Black Flags had mutinied and were safely hidden from view ampugst the trees, and pillaging the country. Lin, it will be remen-cold without any difficulty reach the barracks bered, was some time ago sent to Formosa and took some of his old followers with him. The report that the trouble arises from that quarter seems, however, to rest on nothing more than surmise. Owing to the regulations now enforced by the Chinese authorities with regard to tho use of the cable do private messages bave been received in connection with the affair.
again. Ou the arrival of the police a thorough search of the ground was made with the aid of lamps for the murderer's weapon, and Colonel Barrow personally conducted a search of the barracks, but the revolver was not found.
Mr. Wodehouse-Did you find any blood stains ?
Witness-No, no
I found mark at all. nothing in the road.
Mr. Wodehonse-How do you mean? Witness-I did not find a revolver, or traces of
searched.
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Lieut.-Colonel Barrow said-On the night of the 14th inst. between 9 and 10 o'clock I was in my quarters when a report was made to me that a native soldier had ben shot. I at ouce went up to the lines and straight to the hospital, where I saw the deceased being attended by Surgeon The murderer minst have placed the mouth of Captain Borrodaile. The deceased, who, I think, the weapon quite close to the deased, and at the was about 35 years of age, came to Hongkong He was a left side of his back, as the victim's pat and under with the regiment in May, 1892. The naval anthorities her know nothing of shirt weresinged. The ballot entered nearthe 1 fthavidhar in the B company, which has a mat the particulars of the rising, but there is at pre-Side and came out just below thegion of thesied to itself. The shed is the upper one be- sent great activity being displayed on most of heart. Beyoud the statement of the deceased tween the Robinson Road and the hospital. I the men-of-war in harbour, and in case of the police have, as yet, no clue to work upon. It have had pointed out to me the place where the emergency they will be ready to proceed to sen is said, however, that Nawab Shah owed the bavildhar was shot, and it is about a quarter of at a very short notice. It seems that the first
murdered man, who was the asssistant gymoustic a mile from his quarters. notification received here of the rising was a instructor, S10, and this may afford the police telegram despatched from Formosa by the Eng-
some good ground to work ́upon : On Friday lish Consul at Takow, who wired "Protection aftern on the prisoner was brought over to urgently required. Immediately after the re- Hongkong and lodged at the Central Polic ceipt of this telegram H.M.S. Mercury, second class cruiser, sailed for Formosa, and M.S. Rattler, gunboat, will follow her in a day or two. The Spartan will probably leave as well, and other boats are being prepared for sea as quickly as possible.
MURDER IN KOWLOON.
AN INDIAN SOLDIER SHOT.
ARREST OF HIS COMRADE.
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Station.
PENING OF THE INQUÍRY.
On Saturday morning Mr. 11. E. Wodehouse opened the official inquiry, at the Policy - wirt
to the circumstances attending the death of Uramz Khan, a bavilhar in the Hongkong Regiment, who died on Friday morning last from revolver injuries alleged to have been in- flicted by Nawab Shah, who also belonged to the rogiment. The first witness was
Laban Goodyer, a petty officer in the Royal Navy, attached to the torpedo depôt at Kowloon, who said-At 9.20 on Thursday night I was at the Naval depôt when I heard a shot fired down the road, and two minutes afterwards I heard a At uius o'clock on Thursday night an In-
man shout. I rau and saw three Chinamen stand. dian soldier, Havildar Uramoz Khan of the Hongkong Regiment, was shot in the left side,ing in the middle of the road. They seemed to be and suffered injuries from which he died at greatly alarmed at the firing of the shot, and look. eight o'clock yesterday morning. The circum-ever their shoulders towards Yamati. I passed stances attaching to the murder art present the Chinamon and went farther up the road, and saw the deceased (wisting round in the middle of not fully known, and the police are engaged the road, and as I got there he fell on his back. pursuing their inquiries into tho affair. fore he died the murderd man said that Three members of the Rifls Brigade also came comrade named Nawab Shah, had shot up, and also Sergeant Marshall One of the him in the breast with a revolver, and, Rifle Brigads pulled up the Indian's shirt, and on the strength of this dying statement, Nawab saw that he was bleeding from a wound just be Shah was arrested in the barracks. But it is low the left breast. The man, who was quite not yet clear whether Nawab Shah did commit conscious and able to speak in his own language, the murd r; some of the Indians in the barracks was then taken to the Institute. I went for au assert that he was in his room when the shot was interpreter, and whilst he was taking the state fired. The facts. as far as they can be ascertained, out of the deceased, the Sergeant went for a The Institute is situated at the corner are as follow:-At uine o'clock Sergeant Mardoctor. shall, of the Hougkong Dock Yard Police, and of Elgin Street and Macdonnell Road, and the Mr. Wilcockson, caretaker of the soldiers' and latter road runs parallel with the Indian Camp: Inspector Corcoran sail--I was in the Police Sailors' Institute, heard the sound of a revolver. shot, and upon hurrying into the Macdonnell Station at 9.45 on the 14th iust, when I was told Road, accompanied by two or three members of that an Indian had been shot in Macdonnell Road. I went to the Institute; but the the Rifle Brigale, found the wounded man lying
The wit in the road about fifty yards north of the Iustilutedeceased had then been removed.
nesses pointed out the spot where the body was He was picked up and conveyed as quickly as possible to the Institute, where he said that he found, and I made a mark on the road. was walking along the road with Nawab Shah, I went back to the Instituto, wheu Sergeant when the latter suddenly drew & revolver and shot Marshall gave me a paper coutaining a state him. This statement was taken down in writing ment which had been written by Mahommed by the Indian orderly room clerk, who had turned Jaffa, the interpreter. (The paper was produced out with other men when the alarm was given. but not read). I sent for four largo lamps, Surgeon Captain Borrodaile was immediately which arrived about 10.15, and we then made a sant for, and he order d the patient to be re- search of the road for a distance of 300 yards. moved to the camp hospital. The police, of We found nothing to throw any light upon the
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Mr. Wodehouse-The deceased was dressed in a waistcoat, which was placed over white pyjamas, and brown shoes. He had no turban on. What
inferencs do you draw from that?
Witness-The inference I draw is that the deceased did not intend to go to a place of public resort. It would appear that he had been hastily
led out of the camp by somebody. He would wear that dress about the barracks.. If he had arranged to go out he would have worn a more respectable coat and a turban.
Mr. Wodehouse-What do you conclude from that P
Wituess I conclude that he had been called out by someone as he was going to bed. He ought not to have been out of the barracks at the time his body was found, as the roll-call had been sounded. In order to be where he was he must have been specially called out.
Mr. Wodehouse-Do you conclude from that that he was specially called out to be shot P
Witness-I conclude that that was the cass. If the man had not intended to shoot the de- ceased he would not have had the revolver; the man had no business to have a revolver.
Mr. Wodehouse-We do not know that it was a revolver.
Witness-Well, it might have been a pistol
The doctor told me it was a it was not a rifle. pistol wound.
Mahommed Jaffa, writer to the Regiment, said-I was in wy house in Elgin Street at 9.30 on the night of the 14th inst, when I heard voices. I went out, and asked deceased what was the matter with him, and he said "I am shot." I sent for a doctor, and before he came the deceased said he was shot with a revolver by Corporal Nawab Shab. He saw the revolver in The deceased added that the Corporal's hand. he was shot because Nawab Shah owed him $100. I took down this statement in writing—I wrote it in English-and it was signed by witnesses.
James Marshall, sergeant at the Naval Yard, also spoke to hearing the shot tired, and going to the deceased. Macdonnell Road was bounded on one side by godowns and on the other by a common which led to the barracks.
Machas Bulla, whose evidence was interpreted, said he was a private in the Regiment. He knew the deceased, who one day asked Nawab Shah for $88 which was owing to him. Up to that time the two men had been friendly, but after- wards they became unfriendly. The deceased
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