Show AMERICANS HElD I IN VilE PRISON Crew of Whaling Vessel Vesse Thought to Have Been Lost at Sea Are in Venezuelan Dungeon Escaped Prisoner Brings Information of of Seizure rc of Crew When V Messel essel s 1 Arrived at Port In Distress Over Five Years Ago Kingston St. St Vincent B. B W. W L L-It L It n K I ha th lof t n iI w son and th the crt v bf of f thEy the American whaling ship Carrie D D. Knowles long since sinco thought to have been lost Jost at sea are still sUll alive in i a a Venezuelan prison P rison An Amerl American an seaman named Payne an esc prisoner from Venezuela has bas made milde l his s way to Kingston where ho laid before the authorities an astounding astounding as as- story of the seizure of or the Carrie D. D Knowles at a Venezuelan port where she arrived five years ago in distress and of or the imprisonment of or the crew crew A speedy Investigation will be made On January 27 1904 1 the Carrie Canie D D. D I sailed from Provincetown Mass on a whaling voyage She was supposed to have been lost in a West IndIan Indian storm with all hands Some Soma of the m men n belonged in St. St Vincent VIncen and after all hope was given up of th thIr their Ir return their relatives put on mourning and the local Insurance company eventually paid claims on on the assumption that the sailors were dead Payne declared that the whaler had been been jeen disabled in a storm off olf the Venezuelan Venezuelan Ven Ven- coast and had made port In distress She was at once seized and the captain and crew were made pris pris- He states that all the men are alive but still closely confined The details of or Paynes Payne's escape from prison are aie not known It is possible however that he is one of score or more prisoners prisoners who escaped the penitentiary at Maracaibo about two Weeks ago |