WATERS, 'The discovery on the 23rd inst. of the gashed and naked body of a Chinaman on the shore of Stonecutters' Island, near the West Fort, led to a Police enquiry, the result of which has been the revelation of a most daring piracy and murder near to Green Island, It seems that about noon on the 22nd inst, a fishing-boat with a crew of three men left Lamma Island for Hongkong with a cargo of fish. When about haifa mile from the shore off Mount Davis, two fishing-boats, one- containing four and the other five' men, came up to the Lamia boat and sandwiched it between them. The pirates, who were armed with swords and knives, boarded the captive craft and attacked and quickly killed the owner, Ching Sang, who who was then thrown, overboard, and whee body found on Stonecutter's Island. One of the other men wasable, after being brutally beaten, to escape by jumping overboard and swimming until pick-d up by a passing boat, which landed him at Samshuipo. The remaining member of the crew was left uninjured in the boat, after the pirates had token the cargo of 130 catties of fish, two oars, and wu awning, and set it adrift. He eventually reached Cheung-chan, and from thence got a passage in a fishing-boat to Lamma. A man named Chan Cheong was arrested at Shaukivan on the 25th inst. and brought before the Police magistrate, who adjourned the case to ascertain whether the crime was perpetrated in British waters. On the 26th inst. a party of Police with Mr. Mengens, of the Harbour Office, proceeded to the locality, and found that it was within British waters. Investigationsinto the case ate still proceeding.
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