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Show OFFICIAL HANGMAN OF HONG KONG ARRIVES Victoria, B. C, Feb. 14. The steamer steam-er Suverlc arrived from the Orient j after a rough poeeuge with 5.960 tons . of general corgo and a few passen-, gers. J. Elms, Hong Kong's official haug-man, haug-man, and his wife were the only passengers pas-sengers In the first eabln. Elms handed four white men and two Chinese during dur-ing his term of oilice, getting but $12.50 for each mnn. His baggage Included In-cluded the rope used In his last execution, exe-cution, tho victim of which was an j Amerlcon, hanged for the murder of a woman from Manila, whose body he hid In a trunk and placed on board a steamer. The steamer's passage was marked with extremely rough weather, on heavy sea dislodging an ash chute which dented the wheelhouse and a floor of the boat deck. |