Show STORIES TOLD BY BYTHE BYTHE i iTHE THE MUTINEERS Testimony Taken Regarding the Ber Bel Berwind Berwind wind Butchery t ACCUSED MEN ALL NEGROES I I HELD E D WITHOUT BAIL BAI TO THE TH FEDERAL COURT COU RT II I II I I Wilmington l Is N C Oct 12 lHer Her decks declo and cabins splotched with blood from the fearful butchery following the mutiny I aboard the ship early Tuesday morning off of the North Korth Carolina coast the four masted maste schooner Harry A Berwind of Philadelphia was as towed Into Southport today by Wilmington tugs Aboard were the prize plize crew of the New NewYork NewYork NewYork York schooner Blanche H King who were vere wanted as witnesses against the three negroes shackled and brought to the tha Cape Fear quarantine station on Wednesday charged with mutiny and murder Story of the Butchery I At the preliminary Investigation before United States Commissioners Collier Colli r of or and Pinner of Southport to today toda today day da the men who boarded the Berwind told tali the thc story stor of conditions on oit the vessel I as they found them cud and a lid the three uric pris prisoners were then introduced at their own i et They Th Y gave gue their names as Rob Robert Robert ert Sawyer Henry Honry Scott and Arthur J Adams all negroes and under 40 years cars j of age Sawyer Sa ar and Adams Adums employed counsel and both charged that Scott did tho the kill killing ing lug of at the five men with the exception of ot Captain who aIo disappeared be before before fore foro daybreak Tuesday morning in a manner of which they thc knew nothing Each said he saw HW Scott shoot the mate on the lee leo side of the ship shin and throw his body overboard Then he lie killed d the thc engineer and went down the companion companionway way Very Ver soon Boon they Uley heard shots below deck in the parley raney and a short while thereafter Scott came up uti u again u aln bearing the body bolly of the cook a small white man manin manin in his arms depositing his burden over the rail They afterward bound Scott and were the vessel as OH best they could rould until overhauled by the Blanche H Confessed Killing One Seaman Scott says all an the seamen four negroes formed a conspiracy soon after leaving Mobile Sopt Sept 23 feeling outraged because of short rations He said cold 13 ho killed no one except Coke Cokely Col o oh h ly the negro neero ne ro seaman teaman se man found on deck and that he lie him in Cokely he claimed lilt hit him with a stick antI ami shot at him while he lie was He ed no explanation of why ho he has haa been leun c bound except that his companions wanted to get t rId ild ni of him after the trouble He lie said he ho saw Cokely Cokeh shoot the mate and saw Adams kill cill the engineer He does fi finot not know lwow how the tho cook was killed as the shooting was below deck Scott is a mulatto and aId is the most in intelligent intelligent of or the four Adams IR is also u a mulatto and ana claims to be a British sub subject subject joel from St L Vincent island All three negroes were held without ball bail and are ares confined in the jail for the federal fe oral court In Wilmington in Novem November ben bar Three members of the crew of or the schooner Blanche H Wing King were W held as witnesses but will give bond upon the arrival of or the vessel owners tomorrow her bier a aza In h port the had lost her hel foremast topsail her rudder was disabled and she sh was leaking slight slightly ly 1 She had a n cargo of lumber |