Show STEAMER SUSPICIONS RIFE Detectives Kidnap Crew ant ani and Passengers of on Arrival Anival DANGER IN LI LIFEBOATS LIFEBOAT TS Underwriters Believe Ship Was Wa Wrecked Purposely for Heavy Insurance New York May 2 21 The I.-The The arrival arival ol of the Ward Vard line steamship at al ather ather her dock In Brooklyn today toda was marked b by a scene unparalleled in Ii recent years in this city Detectives who had boarded hoarded the ship at quarantine quarantine tine had rounded up the twenty tent members members mem mem- bers hers of f the tho crew and four passengers including a woman and a young oun girl of ot the shipwrecked steamer cs on the forward forwar deck and the they were brought ought down on the dock where they the were ere surrounded by a dozen detectives detec detec- the Lives and no one was allowed to approach approach ap ap- ap- ap or speak sleak to them At a d I si signal nal the detectives hustled th their lr charges to carriages os and arid drove e rapidly away awa practically the he entire body Passengers on the steamer teamer and the crowd on the pier looked looke on in astonishment at the mysterious proceedings and it was not until it leaked out later that the board boar of marine underwriters has a arave arave grave rave that the was deliberately driven on the rocks for forthe I he the Insurance mont money that an au was found AH All Spirited Away Both crew and passengers were vere spirited away b by detectives detec- detec Ives tives acting for the lawyers represent represent- ng rg the thc board of ot underwriters and l ept under cover el until statements of nIl ill II circumstances connected with the founderIng of the vessel were taken The he investigation estimation will be bo continued tomorrow and one of the lawyers said raid ml tonight night that tho the case probably would be e heard hear tf of or soon oon in the tho federal federa courts of this city cl t If It the suspicion that the was deliberately driven on a reef in tho Bahamas two weeks ago aro during a hea heavy storm Is well founded It ft wa was was was' one ono of tho tIlO most dastardly crimes of ot the seas and resulted In frightful suffering for foi both oth members of oC the crow an and passengers and almost re resulted re- re suIted In the th drowning of the woman passenger and her little sister and all allhands allhands hands In one of the lifeboats of the hc ship t F l r 11 o Un n th on a. members of or ji tho nhU P j x l dual boat ere d J open l loat boat oat In the th driving storm with witha witha with a 3 scant supply PP of or water waler an and practically pi CL 1 cally no rood food Every Y bi big wave encountered encountered en en- countered threatened atene to swamp the boat and at night half of ot the tim occupants occupants occupants pants of or the thu boat had to ball ban ce cease cease- c- c lesly t to l keep It while tho re remainder remainder re- re recuperated th their ir strength to take their turn at balling rh The first boat with fifteen mem members ers of or the thc crew cre fared little better but the lives of all were constantly in danger from the thc swamping of the lifeboats life liCe lifeboats boats in tho the heavy teas seas encountered On May 9 tho the thoC C cla es sailed from and Genoa New C Orleans for Trieste with a heavy cargo On the tile night orlaY of or May laY 1 12 he ran Into luto heavy heay weather an and on tho the morning of or orIa May Ia 13 while steaming at ut full spee speed she ran upon a charted charte reef at San Sanday a between an and Abaco baco r reef f in the Bahama Bahamas |