Show TI fiND MAD CAPTAIN C PERCHED IN TREE PEOPLE AT EAST NECK L I DISCOVER DIS-COVER SKIPPER OF WRECKED CRAFT BRANCHES I HAS BEER BOTTLE IN HAND Says It Is Good Because He Bought It from Murphy Officers Set on His Trail Who Lure Him to Lockup North port L IThe I schooner Eclipse of Hrldgeport Conn lies high mil dry on the shore of Huntlngton bay and her G0 yenr old captain ono Albert Darm is on his way back to his home town under escort Somewhere between here and Bridgeport there are two sailors taunted by the vision of a largo man with bare feet waving a beer bottle and calling for Murphy Meanwhile the sand on Eatons Neck with which he schooner was to be loaded lies undisturbed In its prehistoric stratas and Huntington folk are assured that something has been happening Three days ago the good schooner Eclipse dropped her hook In Huntington Hunting-ton harbor off Port Eaton Shortly a a man put out from her In a skiff and on landing was heard to call back to the boat for a pair of oars sang he mil lost his The lone skiff operator later opened conversation with Charles Longsworth of local habitat as to the possibility of his being able to buy a pair of oars in the village Charles was not up on the subject of oars and gave him no very valuable advice Still later the sailor was seen propelling his skiff back to the schooner by the aid of a shovel used as a paddle Yesterday a man went ashore where some men are building a dock on Eatons Neck and asked for passage pas-sage to Xorthport saying he was from Bridgeport Conn and that he desired to return home by train He had been on u vessel he said that had been wrecked and the captain had become r r t r h r ll y t r I i C If f r r 1t They Were Hailed from the Branches of a Tree Insane The captain he said had threatened to run a boathook into him and to escape him he had spent one whole night in the rigging But the most spectacular feature of the Eclipses cruise came to the view of the employes of the Chateau des Beaux Arts at East Neck as the mists of dawn began to fade early yesterday morning They were out picking cigarette ciga-rette butts off the front stoop which Is their regular morning chore when they were hailed from the topmost branches of a tree near by in a gut teral and uncertain tongue by a large I man in overalls possesing a pair of very primitive and Impressivelooking bare feet He held on to the beer bottle mentioned before and announced an-nounced that ho had just bought It from Murphy and that it was very good beer When the Beaux Arts employes had decided that It was a man and not a squirrel that was before them they felt they had good cause to presume that the man was a bit mixed in his dates Two officers were summoned who took up the trail The man meanwhile had descended from the tree and gone off to got another an-other bottle from Murphy The combined com-bined sagacity of the local constabulary I constabu-lary soon led thorn to the track of the man and caused them to find him Just as he was knocking on tho door of an unused room in the cafe He assured the officers that the man Inside owed him 80 The police managed to lure tho wanderer away to tho lockup Ho quieted down and ate a hearty dinner after which a doctor questioned ques-tioned him After quite a session he ascertained that the mans name was Albert Darin that ho Is owner and captain of the schooner Eclipse engaged en-gaged in freighting sand from Eatons Neck and that his family resides at Bridgeport He came to Eatons Neck In his schooner with a crew of two men He can give no explanation us to how he came to cross over to the Beaux Arts or how he got there |