Able Seaman Shot Dead: Suicide of Assailant Hongkong, Nov. 20.
It is officially stated here that very little is known except the bare facts of a tragedy on board 1.M,3. Cornflower in which two seamen are dead, one being murdered an th other committing suicide.
One of the victims, Able Sean R. O'Hara, who comes from Dublin went on watch on the bridge at on November 15 while the Cornflower was on her way from Nimrod Sound to Hongkong.
An hour later shots were heard at the starboard battery and O'llara 3 seen coming away from a hammock occupied by Able Seamai G.B. Lloyd, of Eastleigh, Southampton.
Lloyd was subsequently found to have been shot dead, At the nent he was seen O'Hara was in the act of placing a pistol at his own head and he fired, Killing himself instantly.
The cause of the tragedy is a mystery.
'O'Hara appeared to be perfectly normal when he took oval watch and also in the course of conversation with the master half an hour later.
'A Court of Inquiry is being held. It is believed that both men were unmarried. It presumed that O'Hara must have becom:
owing to some financial troubles.—Reuter.
Tue, Chinese press says that oan of $4,000,000 is ed by the Nation with the Tientsin Customs revenue as security, for the purpose deepening the Haiho River, Tientsin,
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