Show SHIP CREW KILLED IN DECK BATTLE BLOODY FIGHT ENSUES AT SEA WHEN SKIPPER ABSCONDS WITH MONEY survivors on board hell ship loaded with booze and orientals Orient als for smuggling tell tales resist new york A strange story of a fight on the high seas in which lie fhe chinese two white men and two negroes were slain aboard the stoop stool mary beatrice was told here thursday by one of 0 the surviving chinese the alary beatrice a two masted ansted british bahama sponger was found ott off new york bay without captain or crew and with fifteen aboard one of them whose name is withheld made a statement to immigration authorities asserting that after he anti his fellow orientals orient als had paid 9 00 apiece to be smuggled into the united states from cuba the skipper absconded with the money the crew tried to hold up the anti and the ensuing battle the chinese whites and negroes died through an interpreter this chinaman told how bow he and nineteen companions embarked at havana may 8 they were assured that they would be transported rapidly to american soll soil and landed without delay the twenty were packed aboard together with the skipper two white sailors and two blacks they were jammed in like negro slaves on an old fashioned african slaver fand rid so BO they set sail tor for new york the boat Is only thirty feet long and with its heavy human cargo it wallowed low in the waves shipping much water conditions aboard were terrible in addition to the the skipper had a cargo of whisky according to the story told immigration officials and this he sampled himself in liberal quantities afterward beating his passengers for amusement |