Show tain bolt also ny that he himself made private a a inquiries quiet este which lit that lse had money ry in fa the bank and ad hod had lived to la melbourne Mel bourre fire yea billet disclosing lit history T el size told lucy the after lei flat lucy he taken cluan ruth not to dicig it until after the death of lucy mos ca milders t free to speak lucy a tory of tehran story Is briefly this t the voyage of the fc sets celeste I 1 7 c I 1 roii ma its jea Mystery Seen eeb colre el yeary 7 1 aho her that go a down to the n bea in ships thedo 4 boat busl Ties I 1 lit by JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN NERY ERI tew few sea some writer fuels feels compelled to dean dash off a bulky balky veto volume on tile 7 fa boub 1 fyd mysteries ter ot 11 the world there them have hem been hundreds of books book written in a dozen dif ebent languages they do not of aldays pick out exactly the same bam wyo mys bertea e I 1 ica the these writers for there them A a taste in mysteries just me ai there Is he in paintings and buildings and scenery but there I a a list ot of at least fitly fifty which all writers accept as stand sell ard and a famon mystery aarli ork w without a chapter on the marle marie celeste celebie would woold be much btuch I 1 uke the Hun hamlet dele with hamlet out ont and here hem Is the mastery ot of the merle marle meis mais is celeste a aa it had bad stood food for far 62 yc yea re unsold bcd ed the marle marie celeste salted sailed from new T tork ork No november ember 7 1872 tor far G genoa emm with will a cargo ot at alcohol in casks caska cap to tain briggs brigga was wag in command and on an ban board r it were com his wife and baby dough haugli ter the two mates and one of 0 the crew were americans americana the uffer others wera danes and horweg lang december 13 1872 1972 th the a brit british all bark lork pat del gratia gentle bound train from new york to G gibraltar sighted the marle marie celeste aimlessly selling bailing and drifting under part partial heaed a nit anil the tha british captain hoisted signals got no an reply lowered a boat and boarded bearded her the marle marie celeste was found to be abandoned why nobody could even crom agures gures and the more the boarders watched arched Be the deeper grew tile the mystery had RI ate a been abandoned bourner ol of aum I 1 I 1 here nas a no mention of bad weather in 1 her er log the rigging one intact jhc uncles gear was as all right thu there nere a m no looks tho the MR ma tie rie celeste w as in good working or der trial examination showed the other tie deballa ails thus there use noa plenty ot of food and fresh h water the cargo was intall I 1 in the forecastle were a the dollars Bai lors chesta untouched luched captain cental briggs gold watch s tell an pae hould hanging belde do hla his berth on 0 hla his wife table were seel ft threaded needle science and 1 partly or t I 1 y sewed ad material about the cabin bd n floor bear were strewn the bob bab 5 toa to a on the cabin table we a partly eaten meal there were no sign of struggle or of woodshed bloodshed ElI evidently dently therefore tile the marts marie celeste to bad not at been b looted inlet e a by ideal mutiny seemed out t of nf tim the question death of nil all the abrew crew by sickness was unbelievable obelie mb elie able TO maim maile celeste had been aban honed done rod and quite recently for U the food on the table was wai almost fresh and me cabin clock vas use still ticking and if tile the and ad crew had band nad lier let how had they taken their d departure pa note ml alt uie tile malle maile celestel Cel Cele esteB etes boats 1 were am edill board aboard tile the log no light on the mya tiry elf but rather deepened it the last c entry hastily scrawled and ad unfinished was 89 tills this fanny my dear deal wife jno be wonder the british captain was puzzled tie he towed loved the marle marie CAI cedeste into gibraltar and reported the cir cula stances time none the wiser sir arthur conan doyle as among I 1 if 9 the many intrigued by the mystery aya of 1 the marle marie celeste lo in the days day when he he was conan day doyle he la Is the crea erea tor far of sherlock holmes it will be recalled so go of course cents the mystery worried him until fit 1 he had written a story boat about it ili J habakuk Jeph jephson sone a statement was wa the title conan doyle gave to his story it was readable yam even if not absolutely convincing in his elul fiction n as in fact the mystery ship was as the marle marie celeste and the investigating ti vessel woo was the del gratia but conan doyle departed from the facts in otner details captain briggs became captain tibbs the voyage was fr from boston to lisbon the cargo was tallow and american clocks and them were three passengers one of these three passengers passenger wo was a mulatto who had sworn vengeance aag to upon the white alte rare race so tie be had done away with the people on an the mosel one by one with the exception of jephson who oho vas the pIm possessor sessor of ft a acted stone that saved need him from death A canoe from the african coast had taken the mulatto off I 1 the he marle marie celeste when hla his murderous ven vengeance genues was wait complete about to disappear in the jungle the killer had sent seat back jephson to civilization with a message of defiance and now comes the true tree inwardness of the mystery of the alie marte marle celeste or at net least what list la Is given out as a true act statement cut ol at the tha facts I 1 in ili the case it 1 B sort bort of two pert story atory consisting of 1 a statement by a one man and ad of 2 a cf conle aalon ten made to in him by a second man the statement ointment 1 IB presumably true the confession way may or may not it have ave been the truth the whole truth train rod nod nothing but the truth troth the dally daily express of london prints prime the story coat H luy lucy told the story to the express captain lucy Ie la geenty enty years old and lives live I 1 in india H he was la in england oo an a visit he i belong to th the british naval 1 re reserve surre took part la 19 the dardanelles Darda nelles r reelected campaign map a and I 1 la well el I 1 known and it respected mediterranean and eastern are one waters m the story t ry of tile the abandoning of the me rile 13 marle celeste e captain lucy states beatea was wab told him la melbourne 42 beare ago a by a maa who used the name 0 of f and said bald he be waa on the bout boatswain of the marie celeste captain lucy aye aya triga had the papers of a boat boatswain wr 1 of the more celeste but that he be co covered versol up the name of the boate boatswain entin uhn inn exhibiting them cup cap wu uneventful taul until it arrived rome the tha coast of port gaul there a derelict steamer was A sighted trigg mul and f four er seamen rowed to the derelict T they h cy were war e unable to identify it for the reason rob ther that water and weather had bad a obliterated lite rated the name trigg boarded the dev derelict edlet in the eurace 8 cable cabin was en a safe which looked as if it might con tain fain valuables valuable triggs got captain briggs and the carpenter aboard the derelict the safe was opened and was f found a to contain quite quit a sum la 1 gold rod and silver liver this we waa take to the small all boat beat th tha be boarders belander larder theo then took mens ence sr urea to make sure or that the derelict would sink ink and retained to the marie celeste with their treasure taking along the boats boat of the does derelict bet the gold and ad silver totaled pounds sterling it was waa immediately divided a aa follows foldoe the captain took 1200 pounds tor far himself and his wife and child the first mate ago anns given pounds the second mats mate and ad triggs pounds the re at me ning pounds was as divided among I 1 th the a ere crew ho sooner was the loot divided than all hands began to worry so 80 the cap tain late and his mates mate decided to sink ink the th marie celeste and ad make tor far arala in the small boats boata of the derelict but before they could make ready a passing vessel spoke to the marie celeste so bo they guie gaie up the plan ot of sinking their vessel and planned to abandon her instead they painted on th the derelict a 8 boats the time name of a sell schooner from london they then thea set tile the scene to in indicate a hasty and mm abandonment and pulled away lot for cadiz they arrived in that port without mishap 18 hap and reported the lost lasa of the I 1 imaginary london landau schooner th then they the upa separated rated triggs told 13 1 3 that he be had reier neier seen any of the marie Cal celestes Celeb oites tes people since lure the day they separated in cadiz A an later interesting sting yarn yam ion lent t it of e course A captain lucy believes lit his state ment cut of brigg confession to be hue fine and the there I 1 ta no DO good enes cause to doubt its truth the only question would seem to be this Is the memory of a man of seventy good concerning a con foos bession made do to him 42 you years ago a triggs story a aa related by lucy cert certainly nial bag baa this merit it fits nicely to the know kno a facts it solli ldes a 0 TOO men five for far the abandonment of the marlo marl celeste and a convincing feature Is the admission that the appearance of the ship hip th the food on the table the I 1 toys a on it alie floor door etc at waa a fram fewa eup sup a fact suspected by more than one astute investigator trigg of cum cobrae knew the nine name of the derelict and the owners of the money 1 in the sate of 7 ahe he retire entire truth of office details 1 la open to suspicion it if a ten tough ch mates at though but eaher bhe r in it be it if cap n lucy and B bos n triggs hab of course or u t h alg 1 a name haven t gone und knocked the ter tar out at i of the mystery of the marle marie celeste |