BATTLE ON A SHIP.
A HORRIBLE MASSACRE. By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright New York, June 14. Nine men, comprising two whites, two negroes and five Chinese, were killed and thrown into the sea during the course of a furious battle on board the small schooner Mary Beatrice, of British Registry, off Sandy Hook. The story was related when fifteen Chinese were picked up drifting without a skipper and without -a crew. The boat was taken to Ellis Island. It appears that the schooner’s captain undertook to smuggle twenty Chinese into the United States from Havana, at 500 dollars each, half being paid on sailing and the other half on arriving. Off the 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 ensuec in which all the crew were massacred and thrown overboard, five Chinese being killed.
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 June 1923, Page 5
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