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Show SELXCTKD. X TUAGKDY AT l'MP(tllA, Clll. KUO.V. Tho steamer l'clicui arrived in port Tuesday niglit l'roui Umpquu, Oregon. The captitin and pusuner.-i jiivc the following iiurticular.s concerning the ravisliiiij; of a sick nitl, aged eleven years, by tho steward of the steamer, aud tho subsequent trial and execution execu-tion of the lactsr by lyncb law at Uuipqua: Tile family consisted of tho father, mother, two boys and three girls, the youi.gest of whom was a girl of eleven. The family took steerage pissage in !San Francisco for Umpqua, and on tbe way timber they were changed to the cabin by Smith, the steward. The youngest girl was given a state-room to herself on account of her illness. She was subject to hts, which had af lected her brain so that she was not regarded as possessing ordinary intelligence. intelli-gence. Tho father has been a resident of Oregon for some years, and not long ago returned to Indiana to bring his lamily out. Just before tho family re-tiied, re-tiied, Smith met the mother and sick girl in the ladies' cabin, where he opened a bottle of wine, aud the three diank of it and went to bed. The steward made himself quite free in the state-room occupied by the mother, so much so that he ollended her and she ordered him out. lie replied re-plied that ho was head steward of tho boat, and he had a right to go iu and out of the state-rooms as he pleased. She said if that was tbe case she would leave the . room and go back to the steerage, lie said she need not do that, tor he would leave if his p es-euee es-euee annoyed her. The captain does not kuo,v anything about Smith giving wine to tho mother and daughter, but says he thinks it quite probable that he did. On the night following, the 4th inst., after the vessel had left Crescent City, the captain spent the whole time on deck. He iuund tho s eward roving about the cabin, and thinking it singular, singu-lar, asked him what ho wass doing at that time of night. He replied that be was jut keeping a lookout for things. The captain paid no more attention at-tention to him. The next morning the mother entered en-tered the state-room of her little girl. What was her horror on finding her, nearly nude, wholly stupified from the effect of a drug, and her person violated vio-lated ! The frantic mother spread the alarm. Eaiher, children, captain and ciew came rushing to the spot. Restoratives Re-storatives were administered, and the child finally recovered her consciousness conscious-ness sufficiently to relate that in the night one of the stewards gained access ac-cess to her room, aud after plying her with a potion, carried out his diabolical diabol-ical purpose. The steward and cabin boys were summoned before the child, and among them was Smith, the head steward, who had given her the room. Him she pointed out immediately as being the one. Her statement was verified by one of the deck hands, who saw Smith coming out of the child's stateroom state-room ear y in the morning. Smith did not deny Laving been in the room, but urged that he went in to close tho draft through the window, that the chdd might not catch cold. . The statements of the passengers regarding re-garding Smith's statement vary greatly. great-ly. Some of them assert that he acknowledged ac-knowledged having committed the crime, and others say he denied it. The mother would not state that injury in-jury had been done to her child, and the captain had no means of fining out the fullest particulars. But the child was unable to walk, and he was convinced con-vinced that if the mother and child would state fully the facts of the case it would criminate Smith in the highest high-est degree. 'i he father stated that on the evening even-ing before, about nine o'clock, he found Smith in the girl's room, and demanded de-manded to know what he was dobw; there Smith replied that he was merely there to see if the blinds were closed and to see if the girl wanted anything. The father told him to get out of there, as he was the guardian of his child's comfort. Two cabin boys also testified that they had seen Smith come out of the girl's room later in the night. The captain being satisfied of the man's guilt, when the steamer arrived at Umpqua, at eight o'clock on the evening of Wednesday, the 10th, he put Smith on shore, saying that if the citizens wished to deal with him according to his deserts, they might. The father followed Smith off and attacked at-tacked him with a heavy cane, but Smith escaped and fled to the brush, where he met a man and engaged him, for five dollars, to take him across the river in a skiff. Meantime the father made his way around among the citizens, millmen and loggers, and told the story of the outrage, A party of fifteen or twenty men assembled and went to the ship. While they were there, this man whom Smith had engaged to take him across the river, came for bis boat, which was moored to the wharf. He heard the particulars narrated, and returned re-turned to the brush, where Smith was concealed, he told him that be knew who be was, and that if the citizens could get him they would hang him. He reiused to take him across the river for five dollars, but said if he wou'd give him twenty he would take him across. Smith agreed to this, and they started in the boat, but instead of rowing across the river, the boatman made his way to the steamer-wharf, which was about a quarter of a mile distant, and delivered up his prisoner to the populace. One of them acted as the leader, and announced himself a the Sheriff. The citizens searched him for weapons, but found none. His money and watch they took into their possession, and binding him they conveyed con-veyed him to a building up town, about a quarter of a mile distant, and instituted insti-tuted a court, constituting themselves judges of the facts, and appointing the father of the girl to pass the sentence in ease of conviction. The location of the trial they kept as secret as possible, and admitted no one to Its session except their own members, mem-bers, tbe prisoner and the witnesses. The latter were composed of the girl, the father and mother, and the two cabin boys. The latter state that the trial was conducted with tbe utmost fairness. At its conclusion, after a short consultation, the prisoner was unanimously found "guilty of rape on the high seas," and the father passed the sentence. What that sentence was, is not known, as it was delivered to the jurors in a whisper. The trial was concluded about midnight. The Court restored to tbe prisoner his watch and money, bound him securely and placed him in a small skiff. The man who had pronounced pro-nounced himself as Sheriff went on board the skiff, armed with a Colt's six-shooter, and pusned off into the stream with his prisoner. Not long after, at 1 o'clock Thurscay morning, the 11th inst., the report of a pistol was heard at tho boat, and a little timo more tho "Sheriff" returned alono. What tbo sentence was remains a mystery. Smith was a Malay, light complected, complect-ed, and about 35 years old. He leaves a widow (a white woman) and fuur children, who reside on Geary street, in this city. He is said to have always borne an excellent reputation. He bad a good education, and was much liked for his unvarying gentlemanly demeanor. de-meanor. Alto, |