Show BLOODY BLODY MUTINIES OF MODERN TIMES Appalling Incidents Incident of Sea SeaFaring SeaFaring SeaFaring Faring Life Not All AI in Past Ages NOVELISTS ARE OUTDONE Would Not Nol Jo to U Use e in iii II Fiction Some Actual J m Occurrences When hen henI 1 S s Rebel St. St St Johns John's N. N 1 F. F July July- Tho Timo 15 15 The recent recent re re- re- re cent uprising of the thc ew crew of oC the tho Danish Danish Dan Dan- ish bark ham Ludwig who ho to murdel murder mur mur- del der the thc captain and amid at Bonne Bonnie ba bay Ne Newfoundland Is evidence lence c that this tragic feature 0 of marine existence exist exist- once ence the thc root fact In so fO man many novelists novelists' novel novel- plots plots- has by no mio means been dissipated by the time march o of progress s and antl the time betterment bettem In Che the circumstances circumstances circum circum- stances o of seafaring men which has ha been brought about through the humanizing hu hu- hu- hu enactments of various parliaments parliaments par par- In time the last few years In Indeed Jim Jim- deed deell the thc average land dweller has lit little lit lit- lt- lt the tle te Idea o of the frequency of murders mum un In ln shipboard or 01 the appalling Incidents Incidents Inci Inci- dents to which they sometimes give rb rise Only four foum foU years s ago one omme of or these tragedies occurred ed which shocked the whole civilized world when the masor master master mas mas- ter or of the British bar bark Veronica a and six of or his men were murdered h by three timm-ec Dutch seamen who were subsequently subsequently sub sub- h hanged for their crimp crime The Veronica Vei sailed from Crom Ship Island Miss on Dec 8 8 1902 for Montevideo with wih a crew of twelve all told On January y 15 15 1 1903 OJ the time steamer BrunswIck Brunswick Bruns Bruns- wick putting into Maderia for coal reported d having picked up at sea se on December 28 28 live Ive men o of the Veronicas Veronica's crow In an aim open boat who reported that the ship had been burned and their comrades comm di owned drowned and anti whom she sue took to Liverpool where on ai rival the lie negro o cook Moses Thomas apprised the police of the lie details of an atrocity all al the themore Inore more mm-more amazing because becAuse no reason m-eason was assigned for fOI it i. i the men not hot being iii I treated and amid the ti-me ship shill being adequately adequate adequate- ly Iy provisioned Hehe at Bud Bad Food o Fod Bad food rood and bad tr treatment arc are the chief causes of mutinies from time Immemorial but in this instance the on only I plea pica advanced by the ruf ruf- l flans fians for their carnival of or crime was wasa a hint passed among the crew by the tho m that It I was the time of the captain antI and s to away with wih the time seamen Five days after aCer leaving lea port the murderers opened th the series of b butcheries by killing time the lookout with wih a belaying pin and In Ing his body overboard It- It I. I was It-was was wa before be he- fore ore daybreak and amid when the time mate went vent forward forssard to lind the man maim ha having hailed him from Crom the quarter deck Without rep reply ho e met the the same sam fate fale Boatswain f Cc curing something some some- thing wrong wrong- went to call cal the tho lo captain and and- andas as the time latter latel emerged ct front from the cuddy hatch he was as shot though riot not fatally and crawled back Into his his' cabin where ho he and Abramsn barricaded barricaded bar har- themselves s. s Another seaman who sho had Imad been tied tiel ted to 10 the foremast tried to escape and was slain and arid tossed tossed toss toss- ed cd Into tho tue sea sea- sea Two days das later the time cabin door was forced the captain anti and were shot idiot and thou then tho time luram ruffians proposed pro pro- posed to 10 murder tho the cook but his imis vices services were wem-e needed and anti he was was' spared though with wih man maim many threats I Tho The ringleader m was a power powerfully Cully framed and amid savage Celo fellow named Gustav his principal pm assistant assistants assistants as as- being heilig 1111 Otto Oto Monson Ion on anti and William Wilham 1 Wil Wil- liam ham lam Schmidt A few days das were spent I by the crowd in making rend ready to lesert the time ship shill and amid tho time ringleaders recognizing that lint when they reached land time the they must be Ie united In mm the the talc tule they the were sere wel to tell tel of the tIme loss los of the time vessel and their comrades omi COnC concocted a stor story which dally they had lint to tt repeat re repeat re- re peat Ilent three or 01 four times while hiie Ruu nau tood over them with wih a revolver their lives l es If t they made n-made a mistake The Time story ran that one erie died from froni sickness and tho tIme mate was washed overboard o The Tho ship then took tool fire fre anti and the ti-me captain and anti tome ome men put limit off In one lne boat hOt and these Inthe in iii inthe the time other But two mutineers could not hot remember this story might and anti wen veme shot down lomi In cold blood by the drea dreadful ful chief of ot the band Th Then n time til vessel esel was set on fir tire the five remainIng remain remain- Ing lug men mCI took look to a boat moat anti anil ani were five u I days lays later lator picked up by hy tho ho Bruns Bruns- wick vick Thomas Thomas' evidence corroborated by that of or Flohr the time least gul guilty of oC time tho lH others who Viii was sas allowed to become an ami ni Informer as the time pilco of or his liberty sufficed to convict the three ce c principals vm and antl th they timy y were all al hanged Too roo Much i for CO N NA Novelist on A few fe Ce years cars previously In 1894 some ome Malay seamen mutinied on boa board til the tho American ship Frank Frnk N Thayer Thayel and antl the time resulting Incidents were such that Ciu Clam k Hus Russell el the time novelist no declared de de- de clam ed in iii a u letter letur to 10 the time London Times that thal he lie would not hot have dared to put pul forth foith such a Stem tory story a as a voil of fiction for fon or the captain his wife and the time fourteen foUteen four foum foU teen survivors sur of time the crew reached St. St Sl Helena in iii an un open boat after a vo voyage voy voy- ago age from tho the scene o of the tho tragedy of oC huarly miles The Thayer was bound from Manila to New cw York with witha wih the before a cargo of hemp and amid cD day sailing hired four foum Malays to 10 complete tho time crew The rh voyage was without incident till tl after aftem she sime rounded mounded the Gape cape of or Good Hope and ammi was miles n-miles mies up Ui the time South Atlantic when one night ht the time Malays stabbed the time two mates as the watch vatch was wan Wit being changed arid and then ran Ian amuck amid the lie crew knifing us the they went went The Time crow lied fed pursued d and amid three of the savages them the descending the time cabin stairs stains to dispose of oC Captain Clark Clarl and his wife Tho ri former aroused by the outcry jumped from roam his bed bcd and faced the thc Malay being hacked hacke so fearfully In lit a minute or two that lint he escaped death only b by a n miracle But Bur hl hits his wife rushed to his lila aid nid with her hem revolver and at the sight of time the weapon tho time Malay lied His 1115 wife got ot the tho captain Into the thc cabin closed the shutters barricaded work to stanch tho the doors antI and set et to his ant Meanwhile the Malays had Imad charge of tho hO ship Time The bodies bodie bodie of the men inca they had bad 1 killed I d the they threw w overboard and tho ti-mo living In iii Inthe II the forecastle to which the they had fled ed edThe The Time mate mat and amid a sailor died front tn their thel wounds there theme thele and and the others other suffered lcd agonies from thirst hUn hunger Qi and wound pains For three days this state of things gs continued the time murderers murderer several times hues ed trying to Invade tIme the cabin but being bing driven di off ore by the tho sh shOts ts from Crom the re revolvers re- re o of the ti-me captain and amid his wife they thy to fasten Then as OM proceeded knives to long poles with which to 10 stab srab them es through thrush the time skylight after build build- lug ins ilg a bonier barmier to protect themselves 7 LL from rout the bullets ti-me ti captain n decided to o assume the aggressive lve He lie le found die ohe of his lila men hiding in a anti and arming him they attacked the Malays Malaya Malays shooting three and fol forcing ln them hem overboard while the ti-me fourth Jumped lumped down to the tIme hold and set Ire fre freto to o the cargo where whore he perished The rho cr crew w had time to launch the thelon lon boat without a t sail sai and with wih only a n single pair of oC oat oars a barrel of or water and a n small maJ supply of food the time captains captain's cap cap- tams tain's chronometer and sextant extant and nd a chart of or the re region lon they were In In when the ship shirl was a ma mass of or flame Clame They 53 sailed I c I. I nine nh-me hundred miles mie to St. St I Helena lid Hel l- l cnn ena and all recovered from their wounds In due dime time Overcome O h Numbers by An ry extraordinary story of or mutiny following an outbreak of cholera on th the 1 ton 1200 lon OO-lon British Brish ship Zenobia carrying cai five hundred Punjabi pilgrims from Abyssinia and a n valuable government JOV- JOV gov gov- eminent nt car cargo o. o In 1896 merits meris a place place Here The Punjabi ll ha having contracted the disease e and amid the ship 1 being becalmed becalmed be be- calmed the time crew were for leaving her herand und anti the natives to their fate Cate when men a asand asand sand squall ual which would blow away the tho pest peRt was seen to be bo approaching The ship had all al sail l set nn and would be lie dismasted It if the tho squall struck her imer and the time crew ew clew Ieru refused d dut duty duly and amid would not furl ull the canas The Ti-me Punjabi ned learned what was as up and amid two tio t O hUI of them attacked ed the lie eighteen seamen s Icamen though the tho latter later were arVed with knives and the former had no weapons Ol oils ons- their cutlasses being locked up below But numbers rs told anti and In hum a afew afew few rew minutes the infuriated natives had tho time crew lag flying Into the time shrouds to do their proper work vom-k l lest st they ho thrown overboard d as their as assailants lant threat threat- cued ened The sails were lowered in imi time the ship was wa fun flung nigh on her beam ends but escaped The Time atom rn m proved the precursor o of stiff le and antl favoring breezes which wafted her well wel on omm h her herway r ray way ay and anh only two patients died dietl after after- aCer aCer- while the ship al arrived cd safely at Bombay Just twenty eight days after aCer leaving heaving Annesley Inlet The flie mutiny of the lie Lennie which occurred at the time end of 1876 ol e evoked evoked ed cd front from Mr 11 Justice Brett Bret in sentencing ing the lie rs to death at London London London Lon Lon- don these words I Illustrates rates l ful leis Perils This Is a most terrible teri and amid dastardly dastardly dast dast- ardly crime and antl one omme which Illustrates th the awful perils of those responsible for a vessel vesel In having under them them-n crews o of foreign sailors This Is the thc third case In the course of a few weeks in iii which I have had to tl deal dea al with foreign ruffians m accused of or fearful fear fear- car car- ful crimes on omm the seas seas Early In October 1876 she sailed fied from Crom Antwerp with wih a crew cress which as aM she had been short of hands was gathered gather d in Highway and sent to that port to join her She Sho belonged belong belong- ed to Nova Scotia Scota and antl her master mater was a Canadian Stanley Stanle hatfield her hel l I male an Irishman James James Worthey her hel boatswain a u Scotchman Richard McDonald They were wem-e three men of or experience and courage which they would need In mm handling their crew thirteen In all Greek al-Greek Greeks all Greeks Turks Aus- Aus a and d Italians Some spoke c a smattering of l English but hut as a nobody else knew a lingo which all al could understand save one Italian he lie was wa made boatswain and McDonald promoted pro pro- to second mate Eight days after sailing tho time crew mutinied at daybreak knifing the c captain and first mate while McDonald McDon McDon- aid ald took tool refuge in Iii the rigging The Thc mutineers had revolvers revolver tired fired at suit amid ant wounded him and ho he slid t to time tho deck wl ro ho hu was Wt stubbed times Th The three bodies bodle were ivero WCO then lung nung Over Over- ver- ver hoard board board and having succeeded In helm thel design to 10 secure the time ship the gang gung now decided to take her to Greece and sell eJ her imer there then e. e But none nono of oC them were navigators and she was In mitt mid ocean so o the they bethought o of tho the steward ste ald who was not In the thc plot but butIn butIn In iii his lila berth below belo stairs and amid determined determined deter deter- mined that he lie should take tho the office He lie le ncr cot to 10 do so so O. O but hut Instead lien her toward the time French coast coast I lila His Is assistant a boy he lie directed to write ito THo messages detailing the facts and them In bottles bottes which he lie threw overboard after aftem- nightfall One of 01 the these e was picked cd up by a French fishing boat She reported the thc strange e message a gunboat was sent In quest of the thc death ship anti and when the time Lennie Len- Len mile nie reached the thc French Fi coast It i was only olly to find this scout on omm the time watch which quickly bore bote bolo down upon her hem und and put the time murderers I In irons ions Time They were handed over ovel to the British government gov gov- and anti the time four foum- OUI principals were hanged the time others being sentenced to long terms ten of Imprisonment v Ie and amid Wife ie ift In Tim October 1892 the crew of tho the British op mutinied in iii the North Atlantic lc because o of or the it of or the provisions served out outto outto I Ito to them The vessel was on omm a n voy- voy I H age ige e from rom San Sari Francisco to Liverpool I Iby by jy way of Montevideo and antl had nearly nearly near neal ly Iy completed the time Journey when the pa passions lons of the time crew overcame them and amid the they slow the tho captain his wife and the flu first TIme The mate male ringleader m In n this uprising was Fernando an on Austrian seaman who with wih two tivo others perpetrated the butchery The crew after the murders could do taught laught with wih the time ship and abandoned her hem ler taking to their thel boat and being subsequently rescued by another vessel ves yes sd sel the time captain of or which recognizing from rom the disparity In the time stories they told that thai there was a mystery in iii the time iff air handed them the tho over oi-er 10 w authorities au au- on reaching Bristol whet where ono one of oC thom them gave evidence against tho the principals and three of these were hanged Few Pei- Fc More sIone lul l Appalling mon Among ocean mutinies there- there are arc r few cw more moore appalling than thai lint of or the which left lef Valparaiso for London in iii time the winter of 1874 laden with wih copper pr eO ore ol and HUl guano carrying carrying car car- also in iii specie Item Her lC master mas mas- ter em was James a trusted and ant capable man a and amid 1 I he took as passengers Captain William Wilam Fielding and antl his year old 15 boy Fieldings Fielding's ship having been bemi previously conf catel cat cat- ed |