Astounding and equalled only, fiction ave details of events on' the An echo of the brutal and atrocious crime of September 19 when two Chinese women were murdered pirate junk which last Thursday in an old foreign house at 196 East ired on the Customs pinnace.
Se rd Road, was heard in the The revelations were made by a party of four Chinese boat-formerly a men. who had been. imprisoned on private riesha. coo the junk but jumped into the river sentenced to death the and escaped under heavy fire.
Special District Court for being the The party, boarded the sampan perpetrator of the murder of September 19 last, was brought before which was towed by the junk, rok the cord, and rowed to the the Court to express his last wishes. 'A Court clerk took down notes Chaoshan Tower at the mouth of of the prisoner's will, after whi Yangtze, weary and hungry. They were finally rescued and brought to the latter was given food and wine. Provided by. the Shanghai by the Customs launch Hsing, the same launch that Municipal the condemned man was taken. to the Second Drought into the harbour the dead Bodies and the wounded Customs Kiangsu. Prison at Tsaohoching at about 10 a.m, and shot officers from the pinnace of the Chuentiao, The junk in which the pirates made their home was originally Tu weekly return of the Public owned by a Yue family of Fukien, Health Department, S.M.C., for the Since the capture of the junk and until the thrilling escape of the four men, seven weeks had passed. During the period, the pirates Visited Ningpo and kidnapped for ransom a junk owner, who was one of the four men who escaped. There week ending on June 4, shows that there were 12 deaths amongst the local foreign residents and 174 amongst the Chinese from various, causes. The figures for the previous week were 13 and 222: respectively.
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