The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-07-13


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FsCm The CITY BACK TO QuAsANTIsE--anas
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AS was animated In the HsKaLD of Sunday last
vessel from Sagua la Grande recently passed Quar-
antine and proceeded to the city through tile mis-
representations of the captain to the Health Offer
in regard to the sanitary condition Of his vessel and
the health of his while in his port of departure
This vessel is the bark Essex the captain of which
is named Ray. II appears that the bark was board
ed at Quarantine by the Deputy Health ofic r OF
the 29th ult., whereupon the captain stated to The
said official that the officers and crew of his Graf
had all been well during the passage TO this port
and that none of them had been i'll at Sagua ID
Grande, and besides that no infectious contagious
disease existed in said port while his vessel wal
there. Such being the representation Of thu
captain, and the contrary state of facts not known
to be true under the regulations Of the Commission
ers of Health, he received the usual permit TO pro
coed on the Sd inst, after being thoroughly fumi
gated and ventilated. On the evening Of the tn
inst. it reported to the Health Officer, by the
mate of a vessel which had arrived from Sasua
that the statement made by Capt Ray was not true,
OF, in other words, that while the bark Essex was
lying at Sagua she lost two seanen with yellow fe-
yer; that several of the were sick OF the same
disease, and that both yellow fever and small pox
prevailed at that port. After receiving thb state
ment Of the mate under oath, at six O'Clock
the next morning the Health Of6cer des-
person having charge of the vessel to bring her
forthwith to the Quarantine anchoring; and
the officer in Of the neglect or refusal OF the
person in charge to comply with said order, was d.
Tod To IN
the said vessel to Quarantine The order OF removal
was promptly complied with, and the vessel Is now
anchored at Quarantine, where she will remain and
undergo the restrictions imposed upon infected YES
sells.
The facts of this case of the bark Essex was
presented to his Honor Mayor Tiemann early on
Saturday morning by the Health Officer, in the
form of an affidavit, whereupon the Mayor issued
warrant for the arrest Of Capt Ray. The officer re-
ceivng the warrant proceeded Immediately in search
of the captau and returned in about two hours time
reporting that the offender not in town, but had
gone to Boston, and would return on Tuesday next
We subjon the affidavit of the Health Officer and
the afidavits made before him, upon which the COM
plant based and the warrant for Captain Rays
arrest was issued.
It will be seen that the offence charged is of no
small magnitude, and it is fair to presume that If
the proof the trial of this case shall be the same
as that which appears in the following testimony
the captain can scarcely escape the extreme penal
months imprisonment, or both in the discretion OF
the court. The memory of the existence of the
fearful epidemic (yellow fever) which existed in
Norfolk and Portsmouth in 1855, and the fact that
it had its source seed in single case from one
vessel, the Ben Franklin, finding its way to the
wharves Of that city, is sufficient to stamp the act of
Captain Ray as reprehensible in the extreme.
AFFIDAVIT OF THE NATE or TIM SHIP GRoTro.
7oun Of Cdsteon, Richmond county s-John Nichols
being duly sworn opposes and says-rha he IL rst officer
Of the shr Groo nov lying at the lower bay Of Quaran
since the 26th Of September, 1857, and that he
board Of and with the said ship on her
late mip 70 the West lndss nat ns ss,d , snip
the last meotoned port sixty three Gays that while the
vetsel lying there the bark sex int said port
from Havsss that between the time Of her arrival and
the following morning, Of the died OF yellow
fever and buried shore; that In about week or
ten days frsm hAs time another Of the crew died Of the
disease that In 70 meantime the wife Of the captain
ard several Ct the crew were also sick inst the vessel
cleared for the port Of New York in about twenty i've
that some three or four days before the Grotto
sailed for New YORK, Captain Dunlavy, who
was master Of SAID ship, accompanied the captain Of
another vessel ashore and up 10 the town Sagua;
that when Captain Dunlavy returned TO the Groto he
ported that could obtain clear bill Of health that
lock out Of window without seeing funeral procession
following having died OF yellow fever that The
acme two or three dsys beiore he returned 70 III.
vessel and that his arrival he was reported a. very Ill
OF yesw fever and not likely to live And The deponeni
I
lief Judging from the current epors Of the pacs, thai
only yellow fever prevailed at the time In Sagua but
further swcars that since he arrived in the port Of New
York, hs has met captain OF vessel which 10 now
lying at Quarantine, and whd was II sAgua when the
Grotto there that he has had conversation with the
said ca2tain st Quarantine at sundry times for several
day pat that In OF hoee interviews after the sal
captain had protested that there infectious
taeous disease in sagua when he there, the depo-
ptpt ked whether the bark Hsex came into New York,
and about 10 AK whether he did not know that
of ALI Ia
could utter the quson the said captain Significantly shook
his head and made wry face, indicating that he des
New York or any until he out Of The clutches
Of the Quarantine authorities JOHN NlcaoLs
Subscribed and sworn TO before me th oh day Of July
lsbs r. H. THOMPSON, Health officer.
AFFIDAVIT OF THE sScoSD xArH OF TIE BARK
EssRx.
Torn Of Cdaleto~, Richmond county, a.-trancis
Stevens being ouy sworn deposcs and says THAI he was
second 70 the bark Esox during her last trip 10 tho
West ndes that about I'VE six weeks ago she entered
the port Of ssgua Grsnde directly from Havana; that
one man died board Of the bark within twenty hours
after The vessel arrived In Sagua that tho said person
taken III suddenly Of pain IN the bead some four or I've
that 10 about eight ven days from the death Of the per-
above named, another died o. symptoms similar 10
the dsposeut swcars THAI be IVES taken III and also tho
vie Of Captain Ray within ten days Of The arrival OF the
vessel in sasu. and that bic symptoms we're severe pain
sweating And the deponent further deposes thai wne
Il sagua he only vent shore twice. and while
there he had opportunity 70 inquire 70 NE health Of
The port. FRANCS STEVENS,
second mate bark Essex.
Subscribed and sworn 10 before this 10th day Of
July, 1868 r. H. THOMPSON, Health Oflcer.
AFFIDAVIT OF THE FIRST MATE or THE BARK KssKx.
CRY and County ef Neg Fork, a-Aaroo H. Small,
being duly sworn deposes and says that he rst officer
Of the bark Essex; hAs he such officer Of said vesss
during her last trip 70 the West Indies that he
board sad vessel when she entered the port d sasua
which about the 10Th OF May last from Havana that
within four hours from the arrival Of the bark In
Saaua Of the died OF what he supposed 10 be
yellow fever that In about twenty days from the time
The FIRST died another man died, who had symptoms
of pam In the head and back, accompanied with high
fever that other persons ack board a the
bark excepting the captains wife and second mate, who
were but sliehsiy ill A. II. SMALL,
First officer OF bark Essex
Subscribed and sworn before me- this l2b day Of July,
1853 r. n. THOMPSON, Health officer.
COMPLAINT OF HEALTH oFrIcm rHoNPsoH.
Tony and County Of Ncv FORK, s.s-Rchard r. fhomp-
500 being duly sworn deposes and says tha be Health
Ocer OF the port Of New York that during the last OF
June past the bsrK Essex came into port from sAsua Ia