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Show PHANTOM CREW PURSUESKEL Story of Haunted Schooner Revived by Death of Bay State Fisherman QLOUHESTBR, Mass. DeV 2 The burial Wednesday of John Winter recalled lo old-time fl.-durmen a Ir.i-dition Ir.i-dition of a modern "Plying Dutchman." Dutch-man." and its ghostly crew that were believed to roam the sens In pursuit of a ship that had sent them to t h bottom. i Wlnlei w.,s the last survivor of the crew of the fJlotichester schooner, CharletJ Haskell, which. In a storm. In March. 1S6i. ran down and sank a Sab-m schooner and Its entire crew o'i fjeorges flhlng banks He died at the Fishermen's Snug Harbor In hll v-'nd year, representing almost to the last the lain of the ghost shlj of the fishing hanks hlch was suppose,! sup-pose,! i,, have pursued the Haski Ii throughout Its career. met off Eastern point, the entrant of Gloucheslci harbor, Wjnlrrs said. S schooner ran down the wind, hove alongside the Haskell and her phui -torn crew climbed the rigging, declaring declar-ing ihcmselvo, the ghosts of the Sa : IB fishi rmen Winters and others of the HaSgeU'a crew refused to fish In the ship again and a new crew was taken on. These reuurned with a similar story of ghostly ghost-ly vMtatlon at sea, took their dunnage nags and cjult. Another, and still a fourth crew "er,. shipped, but each came to port with a renewal of the story of a ship shrouded In white and a spectral crew and the HaakOSi was hauled up, unable un-able to get men. She finish, d her sea-going sea-going sS .i Kind freighter and the Salem Sa-lem ship wns not heard of again. |