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Show iiiSlfS ROMANCE. Daring Aviator Took Possession of a Wrecked Ship j New "York. Aug IS. In Nicaragua ar.d the various republics of Central 1 America, wher many Americans of i adventurous spirit have staked their lives and reputation on their quick- n ess with a gnu. John Moisant bears 1 a P'putition that savors of romance. Stories of Moisant were told here today to-day by lormer residents of Central America At too time Moisant was sojourning In Honduras, It was told today by a Nicaragua", a tramp steamer steam-er lond-d with a cargo Valued at something like $100,000 was ca6t ashore during a storm and abandoned.' abandon-ed.' That night in the teeth of the gale Moisant made his way along to ' the steamer in a small dugout and Took possession of the vessel. In the j morning the s'orm" abated and'' tho ship's captniu. accompanied by members mem-bers of tne crew and an agent of tho line, rowed out to the ship, which had withstood the pounding of the soa and wind, but which was held fast on a sunken reef In the outer harbor. ; They were stooped by a shot from Moisant's revolver. There was some : parleying and the skipper rowed back I to shore to Inform the American con- I snl and the authorities that Moisant ' claimed the phio and her cargo as salvage and b id threatened to blow the bead oh the first man who tries ; to come aboard." ' There was a second expedition to the ship, this time with the American Ameri-can consul and some native soldiers, but Moisant refused to bt? impressed, , and. to show his sincerity of purpose, shot a hole through the sombre ol a ; native commandant. j Tho expedition to recapture tha j stranded steamer returned o shore for reinforcements of artillery, but, during the night, another storm, more severe than the first, swept the harbor har-bor and completed the wreck of the tramp. When daylight broke the vessel was seen to have foundered 1 Moisant was taken off later by the American consul, who found him hushed hush-ed to the topmost rigging of the I steamer, which emerged ouly a few feet above the water Previous to this exploit. Moisant was reported as handling a rapid flre gun for the NicaraguanH In an attack on Salvador durlup one of the recent outbrepiT. there . 1 The Moisant hrolhers, George, Alfred Al-fred and John, and two sisters, for many jears had Interests valued nt several hundred thousand dollars In Salvador. In ino", George and Alfred Moisant were arrested and Imprisoned on charges of aiding and abetting the revolutionists of Salvador and with having secreted the revolutionary general. gen-eral. ICscnlon. ' The third brother. John, was actively ac-tively implicated in the movement arainst President Flgueroa When the revolutionists were rep ilscd by government gov-ernment troops at Acajutln. John tied to Nicaragua. Ills hrolhers later were released, but their property wa attached bv the government as a bond to prevent their escape from the country. Two years later John Moisant headed head-ed an expedition of filibuster against Salvador from Nicaragua, but li was checked by the action of Commander Wm. S. Benson, V. S. N., commanding the c miner Albany, who threatened to sink the vessel from which the fill-busterers fill-busterers proposed to land ou Salvadorean Salva-dorean territory. I : |