Show what occurred on board the marie celeste Ce leate 11 on november 7 1873 the WHEN yankee ENlon bark barb marle celeste sailed balled from new york for genoa site she carried a cargo 0 of alcohol in al ai d wits was manned by au able crew coin cam nini funded Kled by captain B S briggs of marlon marion mass abir mrs a briggs and the old baby we were re also captains two year on hoard board its as captain briggs thought that the fill fall would he be nn an excellent time for them to cross tile the atlantic and get at least a glimpse of rally italy j all the ships in 10 the course which the marle celeste undoubtedly took reported fair weather during tile the en the month of november but on december 4 the bark was big sighted bated by the british schooner pel del gratis gratia not f far ur front from gibraltar puzzled by tile manner in which the american boat seemed to be sailing tacking lacking here find and there in fashion as if no an aimless desultory otte one held tier her wheel captain boyce of the del gratia halle hailed d tier her but received no reply then fearing that tier lier crew had been stricken with or one ot of the other mat nia ludiea udies to which abich sailors are subject captain boyce launched a small boat and without tile the slightest difficulty boarded the american bark only to find t the lie strangest scene that has ever been reported on the sea the marle celeste tin had d been abandoned by eiery living ing soul yet there here was not a lifeboat missing dor cor tile the slightest trace of a reason for tile sudden disappearance of the captain his wife and the crewl crew that everyone ee hall had been aboard only a few hours before was apparent from froin the fact that tile the fire was still lighted in the gulley galley an abundance of good food and water disposed of the them theory y that those on board had bad been driven insane by starvation and had leaped overboard the sailors chest filled alth their clothing arid and containing a considerable amount money stood in tile forecastle for castle A medicine bottle standing upright on the table in the captains cabin was mute evidence that the bark had not encountered heavy weather eather while upon another table was mrs mra briggs sewing and the impression pres slon of the baliya head was still plainly to be seen on the pillow 11 in the crib captain boycks first action acl loii upon finding this strange scene of silent desolation was to examine the ships log the entries therein covered the tha entire voyage of the vessel from the time she had left new york the day that slie site was discovered helpless and unmanned nowhere in the log was as there the slightest indication of any threatened disaster no mention of a storm or the approach of other craft the entry for the pre previous ilous da was brief but complete while the space for december 4 the day on which the marle marie celeste was boarded by the men from the del gratin gratia contained the only possible clew to the whole affair a clew which only added to the mystery which surrounded the unfortunate ship here in captain briggs handwriting appeared the four words fanny roy my dear wife a that was all the final letter of the word wife ended in a sharp scratch of the pen as if the captain had been interrupted while making its his entry but what had lie he been going to write why had words of this kind appeared in tile the log which was otherwise ise devoted to the briefest of statements concerning the weather and tile the progress of the bark one theory advanced at the time was A as that the casks of alcohol in the told had leaded and ald that the fumes had rendered everyone on board the ship insane causin causing g them to jump into the sea but captain boycks report filed after ids his delivery of the bark in gibraltar definitely stated that the cargo had been intact 0 by the th wheeler syndicate |