Show CJ 11 WED TO ID GET GETAWAY AWAY III IN TIME American Fishing Schooner Is Captured by Canadian Cruiser SHOTS FROM MACHINE GUN FISHERMEN FROM THIS SIDE CHARGED WITH POACHING vanlou er r B C April 21 The Do Doon ion on government cruiser crul er Kestrel ar arId ard ltd Id d in m port today having in charge o American halibut fishing schooner iries Levi Lev i Woodbury which she cap capo o rfd Pd after firing four tour rounds from her machine guns suns and threat 1 ig p t to ink sink the alleged poaching yes vas Un unI she he h surrendered Three of oft t were intended as a warning t r a as no nfl 0 a nU n i was paid to them was vas aM directed at the schooner r r ch h I struck k and slightly damaged her captain of the American vessel ve el did didt t surrender however until his r was boarded by b a force from Crom cruiser The ai ad action inn tion took place Sunday after atter n II i in northern waters alleged to be to anada tanada Five bullets tore rough ru uRh h the th air all in the direction of the Fourth Shot Took Effect rounds round merel in inie i J te ce t of M th were merely ie jd i i to call attention to the command heave hpe to which had been issued to merican schooner But the last ries ies of shots meant business The it i was pointed at the fish ft h boat which JS s then at a distance of about OO 00 mh ds and still making for the open A et a as rapidly as possible pos The bullets e a aimed mod high ripped the mainsail of ofF p F hooner schooner i and one we or two knocked off oil the main mast Captain Captains s Clair feared that he would be sunk I it there if I he did not stop atop At the thee i it e moment the second gun of the trel was swung across her deck to toi i into range of the fishing boat The rhe engines were then stopped 1 her sails gashed by b British bill bul hauled down But even then the 1 r an captain would not willingly render nender He Ile declined to fasten a aser aser ser aboard his vessel but a few mutes Jutes later an officer and three men ii 1 the Kestrel boarded bearded th the Wood Woody Woodry ry y and took charge Story of Cruisers Captain apUin Newcomb of the Kestrel de deres deres deres res that if he lie ever had a clear cleer case ain t an American ve vessel eel that is the Barty Harty Sunday afternoon he de dt deres res the Kestrel was steaming north m ns Quatsino sound on the west coast coaston on he espied an American vessel fish g between East and West Haycock nd here 1 best islands island lie about ten teni i f lee iles off Cape Cane Scott the northernmost int mt of Vancouver island The islands f are five miles apart so 80 that m Captain figuring it i impossible impo sible that the American merican boat I 1 IId Id be more than two and a half miles milesa n a either shore As a matter of or fact i comb says that when he first ob obed obed ed M her ha the vessel was within a mile it island 1 By the time she had haded haded ed eel up her bel dories she ahe was within a at at t 1 distance of West island Sinclair of the Woodbury trendy did not notice the arrival of Kestrel on the scene cene until the gov v nent vessel veasel was within about three threes s Dories Hastily Picked Up fen ien the American ran along pick plok pickup up his Ids five live dories the fishermen 1 cut their gear gal without wasting time ull a fathom of oC it in Within the Kestrel was M sighted the I dory had been picked up and the theoner I toner lOner with her motor power work j to its full tull capacity and her sails sail ad to a line floe western breeze turned I toward loard the tho highlands of or tho Pacific The cruiser gradually overhauled the American schooner and anti by b the time they were four and a quarter miles mlles off oft offshore offshore shore the Kestrel was wats alongside and the captains of or the two vessels were conversing Captain Newcomb had signaled sev sov several several eral times for the thc Americans to stop but they kept on gun was vas tired fired when the race had but w wehl begun beg n nand and the next two were directed to send the bullets across the bows of oC the Yan kee vessel But the captain of the lat ter made no attempt to stop When Captain Newcomb got abreast the American he opened communication through a speaking trumpet Threat of Canadian I I Stop or I will put a hole holo through you called Captain Newcomb I dont think said so Sinclair in a reply that came plainly over the raging water Then the big gun went oft off and a lit tle section of the sail was wasn In n shreds When the second gun of the Yr n Kestrel nU l had been Deen and trained on the schooner Captain Sin Sinclair SinclaIr Sinclair clair realized that further flight was useless and surrendered He refused however to help navigate his vessel to port and would not even een make fast a hawser His engineer declined to turn turnover turnover turnover over the gasoline equipment The war warship warship warship ship then took the Woodbury in tow and headed for Vancouver arriving this morning when the prize was tied up at a 8 wharf The Woodbury is a schooner about feet long and is 15 of tons burden She has been fishing out of Seattle for fora a number of years She had about 1000 pounds of fish on board when taken There was no time to clean the fish and the cargo was destroyed I I Captain Sinclair master of the Charles Levi Woodbury Woodbur r visited the th United States consulate today and lodged a complaint with Colonel West 1St the American West Nest V t will take sworn depositions of Captain Sinclair and members Of the crew and investigate the case casc If he thinks the seizure was not Justified he will lodge a protest Until matters are straightened the crew of the schooner will m remain aboard her She is owned by the Standard Fish company of Seat Seattle Seattle Seattle tle American Captains Tale In an au interview today toda Captain Sinclair Sin Sinclair clair said mid We left Seattle on Monday April 12 1 and after a stay of two days at Bel proceeded north with a crew of hands all told About 30 p m on Sunday April 18 the Ca Canadian nadian cruiser steamed alongside and ordered me to heave to I was told my vessel yes el was wall under seizure I ordered the engines stopped and the Kestrel sent her first officer aboard I asked what the matter was and he told me it was seised and he wanted me to go into Bull harbor I refused refu ed to do so as I Iwas Iwas Iwas was in the Pacific ocean on the high seas and so 80 the Kestrel passed a haw hawser hawser hawser ser to my schooner and towed me to Bull harbor where we stayed sta ed that night nights As s near as I can tell I was steer steering steering steering ing a 8 southwest course and was four or five miles in that direction from Haycock island when seized Were you fishing at the time timer asked the correspondent No 10 all my m dories were aboard and andI I was making a passage I told the first officer of the Kestrel when he boarded me that I was on the high seas and he agreed that I was then in the Pacific and not in territorial waters Is it a fact that the Kestrel fired do t I 1 dont know anything about that Seine Seme of my men told toW me we were fired on but I am not prepared to say any thing about that thatIs thatIs thatIs Is it your our opinion that the seizure was unjustified 1 We claim that when the Kestrel grabbed us we were on the high leas treas |