The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1859-07-14
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BssBSbSe Crime and its Singular Ditcover,
HOMO KoSa, CHINA, FEB. "a, 1859.
have just returned from a scene at the Coul
Honss. Of tragic interest. such as 1 never witnesse
before, and hope never to witness again and tn
norsl of which, in the illustration of a Divine Pro
whence in the detection Of the most concealed crime.
may authorize me to depart from my general rule
had heard of the crime at the first suspicious
~ eommision. l had become acquainted with Cap
johnson Of the New York ship .Mastf. on board
which it Was perpetraied-
About . month since, Capt johnson, on awakin
one morning and rising from his bed, found the Chi
49, boy Who had for some time been his cabin ser
vant, . lad only fourteen or fifteen EARS old, wa
miming ; and upon examination of his money chest
TO which the boy had access, he found about SIS
IN English sovereigns were missing. A Chinese boa
had been seen alongside the ship in the night, ant
the inference was, that the boy was in partnership
With the boat, and had unceremoniously transferred
boeh himself and the money to it. All search was il
ssin in the shipping lying in the harbor. in the ad
jAoent Islands, and in the town. nor was an intima
rion giyen BY any one Of the crew, the guilty one.
mnintaining the most stocial apathy. and keeping tn,
fatal secret deep in their own bosoms. Thus a Who'll,
week passed May. AID the murderers were congrat
ulAxing themseles on their success.
One afternoon the Captain had occasion to q
ashore, and his own boat being engaged, he wa:
obfGod 70 procure one of the Chinese, called q " fast
bost," carrying a sail as well as using oars, and
,srE md yssy hsavy. When he returned from thu
the boat bsing ignorant Of the customary way of ap-
preaching The ship, the boat was driven BY wind and
says viii great force against the side Of the ship
pro1neing . violent concussion in the water as well
81 IL ship The effect Of the discharge of can.
non IN raising dead bodies from the water is well
knoUn, and such was the effect Of the conclusion Of
IL eon< He'd the trump Of the archangel been
hardin the car Of the Chinese boy, hardly could he
hsve sprung more suddenly from the deep where he
tay9 Ths mystery was cleared mp ; suspicion gave
way 70 certainty and now IL vas known the poor
snbin boy had been murdered on board the American
ship. bat lad not the Captain been obliged to hire
= CA1neDo boat ON the occasion, and had not the ig-
nssense s4fhe master caused the violent dash Of the
.oes ne sde OF the ship, the secret might not
ave - toyea1ed TILL earth and sea alike give up
tne.r ed, How remsrtable the providence How
Bat Who nnitte the deed ? Suspicion rested
spon 10 90 eno = vord could b obtained from no
ecS me POS ned Deen cunnIngiy laid, and faith
..ny Eex kepc "A Cn,nese BOAT was seen
.1P - the nignt' ana sne boys clothes
- June m . Cninese boat the clothes having
-, o,ovn overheard to create the suspicion that
49, 80 eooe 70 tne ooat with the money, and
49, no peen nsruered there. when the body
ePsl t va nund WITH q creased rope about the
49, - anoose, which had been drawn so tight that,
upen . POST mortem examination, not a deop of
vnfgf uns rDund in the body The boy had died of
efreagcotsfSsn snj nns by drowning. Besides this, a
pjeoe q nun OF about twenty-five pounds weight,
esIled : /" MORMON an appendage Of ship tackle,
va8 no(ened TO the body by the rope. that il The boy
esskse. he might be drowned and whether
eeezee o. erpvned. or both, that he might tell no
49, Noe sss tnss enough the head bore marks
% veesses eonsnslon, ana evidently 1t had been at
u5l = By strangiine. Could craft do more.
AH s'e.n tnS -s.sPse'ons OF capt Johnson we're
- SPo1 ssrees mo we're arrested for examina-
3 j, ~, nr q. sne ere. we're Kept IN confinement IN
- vss,:s@ Inc names OF the three impii,
01e.1Ds riBh5all Of them young men, under twenty
"pen ofougnt into Court, one was re-
Gos9sD y : member OF the jury OF inquest as
SsHe4 Esec on, an apprenticeship IN one OF the
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