BATTLE ON SCHOONER.
STRUGGLE 10 THE DEATH. CHINESE KIM. CREW. CEND OF A SMUGGLING CRUISE. } NINE LIVES LOST. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 11.SO a.m.) - NEW YORK, June 14. ' Nine men, two whites, two negroes, 1 and live Chinese, were killed and thrown • into the sea in a furious battle aboard r the small schooner Mary Beatrice, on the British, registry, oil" Sandy Hook. The story was uncovereel when 15 1 Chinese were picked up in the drifting > boat without captain or crew and taken r to the Ellis Island immigration station. It appears that the schooner's captain • undertook to smuggle 20 Chinese into • the United States from Havana at r>oo » dollars apiece, half being paid on sailing. r On arriving off the Jersey coast the i , captain abandoned the boat, leaving the . crew armed with knives and revolvers, • and with plenty of liquor, i Tho crow threatened tho Chinese with . death unless they gave up their money, shooting down one who resisted. Upon this a fight ensued, in which all the crew ' were massacred anil thrown overboard, , five Chinese being killed.—(A. and N.Z.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 141, 15 June 1923, Page 5
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