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Show CAPTAIN ACCUSED OF j TERRIBLE CRUELTIES Disclosures Result in Mate Re- i iii Also Held on Serious Seri-ous Charge. BALTIMORE. Dec. 2 The witnesses In tl cose of rapt. Levin T. Lewis of tha oyster dredge boat Sadie Lewis, who wh 1 given a hearing todav before United State 'ommissloner Rogers, on the charge of cru Ity to members of his crew, were severe In thnir accusations, and as a remit re-mit Capt Lowls was held In default of fJGOO ball for the action of the Federal grand Jury. Testify to Cruelties. The wltn asses testified that they had t" ti cruelly beaten bj the Captain from the time they put foot on board the Sadie Lewis until relieved from their bondag. by the United si.-ite officers on the retr-enu retr-enu .oiler Wlndom. Th. tentlmou also to the .n'ei t that a White mat.-- nano id "Tom" and a colored second mate named George Itwood were guilty of ?iniiiai- of fenaea Fell Overboard When Beaten. The two mates. )t was tetitlfled, on one 00 'Mon beat one of the members of the crew almost In o insensibility and In his effort to gVOld further punishment the man fell overboard end sas drowned WthoUl an SerlOUS effort being made to save him. The crow consisted of ten men, all of whom testified to acts of crueltj Mate Also Arrested. Atwood, one of the matfs, was brought to Baltimore on the Wlndom as a witness for ihe Government, but when the testimony testi-mony against him developed a warrant for his arrest was sworn out at the Instance In-stance of L'nlted Stales District Attorn' John ('. Rose and he, too, was held. |