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Show ' SHIP GREW KILLED IN DECK BATTLE BLOODY FIGHT ENSUES AT SEA WHEN SKIPPER ABSCONDS WITH MONEY Survivors on Board Hell Ship Loaded With Booze and Orientals For Smuggling Tell Tales; Chinamen Resist New Tork. A strange story of a fight on the high seas, in which five Chinese, two white men and two negroes were slain aboard the stoop Mary Beatrice, was told here Thursday Thurs-day by one of the surviving Chinese. The Mary Beatrice, a two-nmsted British "Bahama sponger," was found off New York bay without captain or crew, and with fifteen Chinamen aboard. One of them, whose name is withheld, with-held, made a statement to immigration immigra-tion authorities asserting that after he an3 his fellow orientals had paid ?.ri00 apiece to be smuggled into the t'nlted States from Cuba, the skipper absconded with the money, the crew tried to hold up the Chinamen, and the ensuing battle the Chinese, whites and negroes died. Through an interpreter this Chinaman China-man told how he and nineteen companions com-panions embarked at Havana May S. They were assured that they would be transported rapidly to American soil and landed without delay. The twenty Chinamen 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, and so they set sail 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. ter-rible. In addition to the Chinamen, the skipper had a cargo of whisky, according ac-cording to the story told immigration officials and this he sampled himself in liberal quantities, afterward beating beat-ing his passengers for amusement. |