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Show TRYTOROBSTEAMER TWO DESERTERS FROM NAVY SLAY CAPTAIN OF VcSSEL AND STAND OFF CREW. Nerve of One Fails and He Leap? Overboard; Other One in I rons. San Francisco. With her captain dead in his cabin and bringing a tale ot piracy unparalleled in modern seafaring sea-faring annals, the steamship liuck-man liuck-man arrived in this port Monday. George Washington Wise, one of a pair of buccaneers, who has been in irons on board the vessel since he was captured early Monday morning, nas confessed that he and his partner in crime, French West, planned to murder the officers and crew of the steamship before beaching her on the coast near Point Blance. That his plan would have been carried car-ried out had it not been for the cowardice cow-ardice of Wise, is the belief of the officers of-ficers of the Buckuian. After holding a shotgun leveled at the quartermaster and second mate for three hours, Wise deserted his post and seeing the futility fu-tility of trying to overcome the crew singlehanded. West is believed to have jumped overboard. No one saw him make the leap, however, and the ship lying at her dock here will be thoroughly searched in the hope that the murderer of Captain Wood may stil- be on board. Heavily armed and equipped with cord to be used in tying up th Owl watch, the two modern pirates invaded invad-ed the bridge at midnight, entered the wheel house and compelled Second Officer Frederick Plath and Quartermaster Quarter-master Otto Kohlmeister, who was at the .wheel, to hold up their hands. Then began a battle between two heavily armed desperadoes on one side and the officers and crew armed with one revolver on the other. When it was over the captain was weltering In his own blood in his cabin, the crew was barricaded in the darkened engine room, one robber was probably overboard and the other was cower ing in his bunk. |
