| Show KILLED PAUL IN I I Sea Captain Brought Down I From the North Tells His I i Side of the Story San Francisco July Chris Christian tian formerly ot of the whaling schooner Olga under indictment for the murder of Jackson D Paul chief engineer or of the Olga has arrived In this city in charge of United States Marshal T C Powell of Nome Alaska for trial The shooting took place in 1905 KoUng enberg Claims that the killing was done In and that he was tried and anel acquitted ot of the charge once by the mounted police of Herschel Island also by two United States court commissioners and once by the officers of a revenue cutter His home Is at Point Barrow the most northerly point on the continent where mall mail Is receIved but twice a year He said News Surprised Him the last mall came imagine my surprise and sadness to learn that I was being hunted after and that I was was called a pirate and that I had wantonly and cruelly slain a defenseless man I talked the matter over with my wife a native and friends and decided at last to deliver myself up to the authorIties I provided well for my family and left them In the care of my friends the natives I loaded a small Norwegian fishing boat ot of twenty two foot beam with provisions and started for Candle City on Kotzebue sound a dis distance distance tance of nearly SOO miles mUes I took a course between the floes and th the Ice and jour journeyed journeyed for tor eighteen days without seeing land My provisions gave out and I shot two pOlar bears and three walruses for food Cape Lisbun on the Alaskan coast was the first land I sighted I had a pretty hard time on that voyage and I Iguess Iguess guess I am the only man who ever made I it alone in a small open boat But I had to go then because I had to clear my I name and figured I also that I could clear myself and be back with my family be fore the wInter sets In InNo inNo No he continued sadly I cannot tell when I shall be able to start back I |
