Show I PIRATES lOOT 1 RICH TREASURE TREASUR I ISlay Slay Ships Ship's Officer and Then Leave Coin for Family I China Jan Jail 10 10 1 With consideration for tor their vic vic-tims Ic- Ic tims worthy orthy of ot Robin Hood pir pirates ate ates recently took possession ot of the Chinese steamer ran rn her Into a harbor near ner Amoy proceeded to loot her hor mot most systematIcally according to a re repou POI pou t brought hero here by U and family American missionaries passengers and nIt nIt- wit wit-n n u of at the occurrence The quartermaster bravely bra refused to turn over oter hi his keys to the tho pirate chief and was tas killed but the pirates made up a a purse pure of oC and entrusted It to another of the shIp ships S offIcers to be gh ghen gien en to bo bothe the family of ot the murdered manGET man manGET GET GIT SIL Ut n nuts tit Th The pirates boarded l I the Iho ho ship I In Shanghai In guise of oC passengers hon hen nearing AmOs Amov they ovir- ovir po powered ered the officers and cr acting with lh precision Ion and t Ith practically no violence They po- po politely politely po politely warned th the speakIng ChInese Chinese passengers not nol to 10 get Bet e excited in- in informing in informing forming them that their object vas n primarily the solIng seizing of ot 90 0 pounds pound of Ih suItor silver er br bars con con- consigned con consigned signed to the American Oriental hank banI al at I Nevertheless It ai explained somewhat apol apologetically the pirates needed bOrne ome clothing and would auld ouId be oh- oh ob obliged liged to accept some ome from the tho passengers OnI th the In the private cabins cabin vero rob rob- robbed rob robbed bed the tho Ie less tor fortunate ones In Inthe the of ot comforts being un- un un unmolested molted molested Toward the foreign the pirates were ero extreme extreme- extremely extremely extremely ly polite from Irom them Ihm they took nothing evidently under ordera from their chief h hl hf f I i 01 F l B compulsion the tho Cle piloted the Ibo Into a harbor barbor hore In let a concealed location a- a ap ap a fort tort suggestive of or med med- medieval lesal das da's Boats floats put out front shore horo in great numbers to take 10 oft the treasure Many of ot the wIld 1001 looking boatmen attempted to board but the th pirate stood tood them oft oct at tho point ot of ofa ofu I III II a revolver or er while bile Il hit his followers brought the loot to the ship ships side He explained to the tho p- p engo It If these thue tollo felio follow a e get got on onboard onboard a board rd I can t I control them and they certainly will rob sou OU ot of erv thing vou OU have A As soon eoon as a 4 the silver lIver was iras tin loaded n loaded Into Inlo mall email boat boats boate the cap cep- capI cap captain I tain taiT of or the ship was as ordered to 10 loput put to son sea and as Lie Ih Ihn bot boats dropped droNed astern the pirates fired fireda 1 a eaRn salute sal with aith Ith their small mall mall arm arms arias ti ha chief bowing lew low and swing swinging lag ing hi his hat bat In a wide tido Ido theatrical gesture op 00 |