Shanghai, 5th November.
John Jermyn, Paddy Coleman, Frank Montfort, Edward Adams, Chester Dean, Charles Lunden, Hugo Jacobi and Albert Benson, able seamen belong ig to the ship County of Linlithgow, appeared on a summons charging them with having refused to obey the lawful command of the chief officer, T. M. Nicholas, on Monday, the 3rd inst. The Court sat at 8.30 for the hearing of the charge.
T. M. Nicholas, chief officer, sworn, deposed: I went forward on Monday morning at 6 o'clock to tum the men to, but, they said the voyage was finished when the ship was made fast in Shanghai according to their agreement with the Captain. After they signed the articles they had made a separate agreement with the Captain. They were signed on in New York. They have done no work since Monday.
Defendants had no questions to ask the witness. What he had stated, they said, was correct. One of them, however, speaking on behalf of all, said they had made a written agreement with the Captain in New York after they had signed the ship was made fast in Shanghai, they about the occurrence. would be paid off. Accordingly as soon as the vessel came to her moorings here, they asked the mate was their agreement at an end and he said it was. The document which they now produced to his Worship was the agreement in question.
At this stage the inquest was adjourned until 9 am. next day, at H. B. M. Consulate.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.