BATTLE AT SEA
CHINESE MASSACRE CREW. (By Telaj raph— Press Assn.—Copyright.) .(Australian and N.Z. Gable Association.) NEW YORK, June 14. Nine men, comprising two whites, two negroes and five Chinese, were killed and thrown into the sea in a furious battle aboard the small schooner Mary Beatrice of British registry, off Sandy Hook. Die atory was related when 15 Chinese were picked up drifting without a skipper and without a crew. The boat was taken to Ellis Island. It appeared the schooner’s captain undertook to smuggle twenty Chinese into the United States from Havana at 500 dollars a half being paid on sailing. On arriving off Jersey coast the captain abandoned the boat, leaving the crew armed with knives, revolvers and plenty of liquor. The crew threatened the Chinese with death unless they gave up their money, shooting down one who resisted, whereupon a fight ensued, in which all the crew were massacred and thrown overboard, five Chinese being killed.
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Southland Times, Issue 18969, 16 June 1923, Page 4
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