Show A STORY OF SAMOA The Bacovery of the Remains of Engineer Hale BIS DEATH ON A PACIFIC ISLAND Alleged Brutal Conduct of a S Captain Indifference In-difference of I United States Naal Ofli cer Secretary Tracy Notified Special t THE HERALD Krammer Dispatch SYRACUSE Dec 1ltTohn McCarthy an undertaker of this city has just returned turned from a trip to the Samoan islands in the Pacific ccean where he went to recover re-cover the body of Chief Engineer George W Hall of the United States steamer Nip sic He tells a thrilling story of adventure and brings back information reflecting on the naval squadron in those waters which he intends t formally bring t the notice of Secretary Tracy Engineer Hall whose wife lives here died in the Samoan archipelago archi-pelago June 18 last under mysterious circumstances McCarthy refused present pres-ent t divulge what ho has learned but it is inferred that the dead engineer was abandoned on the most desolate island of Tutulla while deathly sick through some disagreement with his commanding officer Engineer Hall had served his term in the navy and when he died he was on his way home retire on a pension and McCarthy says that Chief Engineer Gowan of the United States steamer Alert on his return will give startling facts in this frightful case of cruelty The abandonment abandon-ment of Hall to his hard fato also involves the steamship Zelandia owned by Claus I Spreckels whose commanding officer refused to stop at Tutulia although < knowing of Halls predicament McCarthy told Spreckels of this when he got back to San Francisco Spreckels said that the report he received was that there was a storm and manofwar could not be sent He also said that the United States government had not acted fairly in paying the English government 3000 more to carry the sailors wrecked at Apia home than his vessels would have done it for He said further that he was not paid for carry ing the mails which however his steamships steam-ships usually do from the Samoan group McCarthy recovered the body getting it safely t Honolulu and expressed it home In relating his experience ho said tVT Having secured a metallic casket and embalming T embalm-ing material at San Franelco I saw Claus Spreckels the great sugar king and arranged j 1 with him to hip the casket by his steamer the i Zealandia which I was to meet at Honolulu and so on to Tutulla He agreed to land me there and bring mo back for O hal of which was for my own passage f 200 for the body In addition I paid 1H l for the passage of my wife to Honolulu Hono-lulu We left San Francisco September 14 on the steamer Australia We landed at Malluka in the Sandwich islands There Heft Mrs McCarthy Mc-Carthy and took the steamer Zealandie a few days later which had on board the casket em balialng fluid and other things necessary for the duty I had to perform I was a question at that time whether 1 could be landed in Leon bay in which i situated the island of Tutulla The receipt re-ceipt for my passage read that I was to be landed there t practicable This was to guard I against rough weather reaching Leon bay at i night or other possible contingencies Tutuila i not a regular port The United States government I govern-ment vessels meet steamers there and get mall I but a landing can be mado only in small boat Claus Spreckels had told me that he thought I would get through all right as trouble was exp ex-p silenced but once so far as he could remember Hall left there to die that was when poor Hal was lef ther At that time Spreckels said there was a heavy sea and i was Impossible to stop At least that ras the report made to him I was sick five of the seven days ft took to get from Malluka to Leon bay When I was able to get on deck one of the officers of the essel told me I was all right i we got to Leon bay in day time but i we got there at night I might be taken on to Australia and not get home till spring My chances of landing would be better on another ship he said than on the Zealandiabecauso the captain of our vessel was cruel and knocked natives na-tives from his ship They were afraid of him or anyone on his ship Sometlmeshe said the natives tried t get on board the ship he would order their hands cut with knives and let them drop Into the sea I had been told at Honolulu tat the captain was cruel I was In constant dread that ho would do somettlnj to prevent me from gctt ng off Finally 1 met the captain and asked him what my chances were t be landed at Tutulla He 4L repliedln a gut way that they were not good t that I might have t go to Australia I told him the family of Hall had desired me to ask him hT why he didnt stop there in June and take Hall off the Inland He said that he had made his report to the proper authorities that I could ace that i I wanted t when I got back to San Francisco i I ever did get back I told him that the family blamed him for Halls death He replied that he could not help that He Is a German and one ofthe cruellest menl oversaw I asked him how I was toJ leave his vessel at Leon bay and get to Ttula He said he didnt know unless we met a United States ship A little sailing ressel he said came from Apia for the mal but took no freight I asked him how long It would take me to get aboat Irjin the natives na-tives He said about an hour I think I asked him i he would wait that hour until I could get a boat i case I had to He said he would not as the Australian government would fine him 1C an hour for every hour he was late I told him that would willlnglypay the fine whatever It might amount to if ho would only agree to J consent He refused and seemed to be overjoyed at my predicament I tell you i I ever prayed In all my life i was that day and night that wo might reach Lion bay In the day timer Well on Sunday morning hightcd Leon bay and there was the United States manofwar Adams When wo got near an onlcor came onboard on-board our ship I showed him my papers and iIw tgi told him that I was after Halls body This officer of-ficer paid no attention t me Why I probably will never understand I supposed that i I met an officer of an American manof war and explained ex-plained my errand that 1 would be given all the assistance possible but i was not gven We fortunately for-tunately hail on board the Zealandia the governor gov-ernor of Australia and his suit and the captain did not therefore dare display so much of his temper toward the natives as usuaL Several thorn got aboard the ship offering curiosities for sale I ran to them offering them gold and tryIng try-Ing to make them understand G n4e to get ashore When the United States officer saw how determined I was he told me he would take me off The casket and other things were lowered low-ered Into the boat and I reicheilthe manofwar 1 all right Lieutenant Commander Wood worth was In charge owing to the absence ab-sence of tho commander who was sick and had gone away for a rest Lieutenant Wcudworlh said hj was bound for Apia ana asked where I was going I offered him my papers t look over hut Le refused read them and insisted upon my telling where I was goirg and what brought me to that part of the world Finally ho looked carelessly at my papers alter I had forced them upon him I then explained ay mission Ho gave me so little encouragement that I talked with a sailor Ho told mo that some of tho natives would take me t Leon bay nine mllea off for II I agreed t pay that amount We lowered the casket cask of embalming fluid and other things Into a small boat The casket fell Into inc sea and would have been lost had it not been that It had been pecked fo that it would float This frightened the natives and It was only af Ti tee a struggle that I got them to help get In into the oat 1 There was a priest on board from Pago Iago Ho told me that the priest at Tutulla was French and knew very little Eng Hah so he gave me a letter to him explaining my mission Finally the manof war went eight miles Into the bay and tho natives towed mo frt f-rt of tho way 1 McCarthy lesurrected tho body and prepared pre-pared it for shipment A priest at the place gavo McCarthy much damaging testimony which embodied in his complaint Tracy |