The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-01-25

seen him before, and had not noticed him
on board the ship before. He could also
recognize the two men who ordered him
out Of the pantry, but he did not see any
Others sufficiently well to identify them
in the future After handing over the
property to the chief, through the
boatswain, he (witness) asked the
chief what they intended to do.
They replied that when they had taken
all the money they could get out Of the
ship they would leave her at s p. m. The
chief engineer asked him to leave the ship
as soon as possible, so that they could get
back 10 Hongkong and have the wounded
attended to. The wounded up to
that time were the third officer and sec
ond engineer, who had shot wounds in
the left arm-both shot in the wrist. The
chief did not reply to the chief engineer,
but told the boatswain to tell them that
anyone attempting to escape from the
room would be shot at once, but that by
maintaining tranquility further harm
would not come to them. The
chief and his associates then left,
men who partrolled their place of impris-
onment. The next thing they heard was
the noise of Chinese passengers being
driven on deck and sent down into the
saloon, also boxes being thrown about
and the noise of wood breaking and
splitting, which lasted about half an
hour, by which time they had driven
the saloon. The noise of smashing up
boxes continued up to dark; about 3 or 4
more hours. Just before dusk, about p.
M. he heard the pirates shouting out to
the firemen to lease the engines" The
ship was eased down TO four or
five knots from nine to ten knots
per hour, at which speed she
had hpe1 Oaiuu eyer siy7nn attach
commenced. About an hour later they
heard the steam whistle being blown two
or three times and at the same time heard
some people on deck exchanging shouts
with people on board vessels near by.
They then sang out to the FIRE
that time he had opened about an inch
of the window in the captains cabin, with
out the pirates knowledge. Looking
through the window he saw two iunks
come alongside the Namoa. That
must have been about I p. m. At the same
time he saw two junks come alongside
the port side of the steamer. They were
Hongkong fishing iunks, two-masted. He
could not see their numbers. He knew
they were Kongkong junks by their
build and rig. At the same time
he could just discern land on the
starboard side and ahead. The pirates
then proceeded to pass all their plumber
AitO the Junks, WHICH consisted OF DUCK
cts and baskets full of dollars and bun
dies of Chinese clothing. The guard
round the cabin took no part III the pro-
ceedings. While the transfer of booty was
taking place the guard ratified their revolt
vers up and down the venetian windows.
just to show us that they were on the qui
vive. The transfer of the booty took from
an hour to an hour and a half. 1t was
carried on on both sides of the ship, and
into the four junks. They did not take
any very heavy boxes. As soon as the
junks had taken on board all they wanted
they left the ship. That was to
say they each left when loaded Before
the last junk left the pirates let go the
Namoa's anchor, while another party of
pirates came aft to the saloon and put out
light which the passengers there
had lighted, and shut down the skylight
He knew they put the lamp out
because he heard the noise of the lamp be-
ing smashed, and its rejection on the yene-
tian of the captains cabin disappeared at
ordered the tremen to draw the boiler
fires and few minutes later
the whole gang left the ship
in the last remaining junk. The cabin
guards were the last to depart. After the
junk had got well away, the third engineer
and himself got through one of the win
dows and opened the cabin door. The pi-
wood. They knew when the pirates had
gone, for a quartermaster came aft and
told them.
Witness discovered that Mr.. Peterson
was dead about ten minutes after starting
The murders had been committed in
the early part of the attack. Mr.
Peterson's body was found on the
upper deck, aft. by the second
officer who reported to him (witness) on
the bridge. He was a frst-class passen-
ger of German nationality Peterson was
a hghthouse-keeper in the service of the
Chinese government. When he came
aft, off the bridge, in the morning.
he saw the body of Peterson lying on the
quarterback with four wounds i'll the
head The captains names were Thomas
Guy Pocock, an Englishman, and was
As years of age. Captain Pocock
joined the ship last May. He was
married man and his wife and four chill
dren resided in Hongkong. The second
engineer, third officer, two quartermasters,
one sailor and one cook were wounded.
None of the Chinese passengers were
wounded. At no time during the whole
affair was it possible to offer resistance.