Show SORDID TALE OF TROPICAL SEAS RIVALS ficia FICTION ION swaggering bully charged 1 I with tossing shipmate to sharks new kew york frank pollack lilze fighter sailor bully and accused murderer d brer lias has come home in irons filin fici n the tropical sens seas to angher answer to the charge of tossing a n crippled shipmate to the sharks that lie lit drain a bottle alone patrick hunter maimed but nonetheless genial nent ent to his death off wicked port said somewhere east of suez filiere the best Is like e the worst lie he died because lie sought friendship where inhere there was none the grim story of murder on the high seas of a swaggering bully who nho terrorized the crew whom he worked defied his officers slid and made life a torment for one lame seaman who it Is charged was his victim in tin an uneven fight when the two were alone alene on oil the deck of their ship was revealed by assistant district attorney george 11 Alln tzer rivals stories of fiction the motor ship ishii tampa brought the story when she docked in brooklyn but pollack arrived several days later on the steamship canada the crime took place ou on the tampa but pollack was held for a while in the azores for questioning by the american consul the story in its starkness and sordidness Is reminiscent of the sea yarns of 0 fiction except that no glamour attaches to this man who wasso was so easily the physical superior of any of A all J w 6 T hunter never came back his mates that lie he was wag absolute ruler of the forecastle and who chose as his opponent a cripple nut but pollack was sly his officers he knew had tha means of overpowering ver pow him strong as he was so with them he was merely surly but f from rona the time he signed aboard the ship the crew lived in fear lie ile bullied them mercilessly but he never came to an open break with ills his ills fellow shipmates declare aby hated bated him film for he soldiered would not do his work and was a troublemaker they could escape him they were w ere strong but hunter was a different proposition the little seaman was crippled and could not resist the bully ills only hope was to seek friendship and act in the role of a teady it help bein as the pugilist E bullied u 11 led him continually it was olt off rort port said egypt that things came to a lead head the two nion men went to the poop deck to drink from hunters bottle it was said hunter never came back what happened on that lonely deck under cover ot of the starlit tropical night Is not definitely known whether pollack deliberately lured hunter to his big death the crew of the ship do not know on a hunger strike pollack says be does not know what became of hunter the men on the tampa insist hunter was thrown into the sea all ot the circumstances of hunters disappearance are obscured by lack ot of facts but one thing Is certain and that Is that pollack swaggered back from the poop deck alone and that patrick hunter was waa never seen again pollack soon found himself in irons and he stayed in irons until tho the tampa put in at st michaels in the azores there pollack was turned over to william L doty american consul and the tampa went on to america pollack went on a hunger strike and doty fearing he might starve himself to death had him put aboard the canada in irons |