Show ii laniau in BOSTON feb S ans today publishes the story of captain morris relating his experience as a prisoner for three years in a siberian coal mina captain morris bays ha waa captain c the schooner helena which baided bailed from yokohama kahama Yo april 11 1883 on cruise fr walrus they captured a walrus in russian territory and the gc booner was captured by a edaa mn gunboat the schooner and crew were i taken to where they were tried and convicted of violating the seal and fishing laws and condemned to imprisonment in the coal mine for three years they were obliged to send up ten tons of coal per day for the first year and eix ton per day for the other years if the stated amount did not come up no rations would be given abena captain morris was fastened to a pole the chain beine eight feet conr after bebok fastened the captain saw no one but the pole until he was liberated not beina allowed to leave the mine during the entire three years bleeding bleeping Ble oo 00 ane floor of the mine and on rice soup at the end of three months bis companion died but no one came to release him from aba body at the end of fifteen davs the captain cut the polea body in two with a shovel and got it upon a load of coal when morris came out he found that F 0 crocker of searsport Sear sport maine one of his crew had just been released together they walked miles to th russians refusing them transportation they were coal be grimed ragged and acre tram bite of vermin an american took them to nagasaki tided their first hot bath in three years the consul them with transportation to yokohama from whence they went to han franciaco morns finally reaching boston his matiy place last november last friday he luft the house of a friend to come to this city and since that time he has been minji ins |