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Show DETAILS OE TRAGEDY Insane Man Kills Captain Cap-tain and Jumps Into the Sea i San Francisco, Aug. 22. Meagre de-j de-j tails have reached this city of the tragedy early yesterday on board the i 'Alaskan-Pacific company's steamer, j Buckman. when Captain E. B. Wood ; was shot and instantly killed In his I robin in an attempted hold-up of tho I vessel on the high seas off Eureka. His slayer Fred Thorns, leaped into ilhc sea after "the actomjdlce In the engine room attempted to Join him In taking mastery of the boat. An Incomplete story of the sensational sensa-tional attempt at piracy was related by telephone last night via Eureka from the wireless station at Table Bluff, south of Humboldt Bay. The Buck man which was southbound south-bound from Seattle for San Francisco reported all well as It passed Cape Blanco on the Southern Oregon coast The daring attempt to seize the boat was made at 2:15 o'clock when Thomas Thom-as went to Captain Woods' cabin and summoned the latter to the door. The details of the encounter between Thomas Tho-mas and the captain have not been learned, as Woods was unable to make a statement after the shooting shoot-ing and the murderer leaped Into the sea Immediately afterward The quartermaster quar-termaster ran from the bridge to find hl6 superior officer breathing hi3 last at the door of the cabin. Thomas' accomplice was overpowered overpow-ered by the engineers and was brought up in irons soon after the shooting of the captain. The wireless operator opera-tor was called and messages were flashed to the steamer President, which was northbound, off the coast of Eureka. Tho president veered from Its course to the place when? Thomas had leaped overboard, but an hour's search left no doubt that the murderer mur-derer had sunk Into the sea. The first news of the death of Captain Cap-tain Wood was received by a wireless wire-less message sent to H. F. Alexander of Seattle, immediately after the shooting when it was believed that Thomas was insane. |