A MAD MALAY
RUNS AMUCK ON STEAMER KLANG / i Perth, November 18. The master of the steamer Gogra, from Singapore, lias brought details of the murder of Captain Murdoch McDonald, a New Zealander, master of the steamer Klang, and eight members of his coloured crew, by a Malay in Singapore Harbour. He stated that soon after the Klang left her berth a Malay passenger ran amuck with a larg'e knife, stabbing right and left. A scene of panic followed, two hundred passengers rushing to escape from the madman. The ship was stopped, but by that time thirteen people had been stabbed. Captain McDonald left the bridge to investigate, and was stabbed in the abdomen. The police were signalled, and a party armed with rifles and bayonets boarded the vessel, and the madman was shot dead. . Captain McDonald and eight others succumbed to their wounds. A tragic feature was the finding of an unloaded revolver and ammunition in Captain .xfa.i.innnhPq socket.—Tress Assn,
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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 47, 19 November 1925, Page 9
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161A MAD MALAY Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 47, 19 November 1925, Page 9
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