Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-09-29
STEALING A STEAMER.
Attempt to Run Away with a steamer r
The Captain Thrown Overheard
Authority of the United states Disre-
parUed,

The Captain Thrown Overheard
Authority of the United states Disfe-
garded.
from the San Francisco Bulletin, Sept IA
Messrs Gliden IL Coleman, a lumber firm
owning property in this city and on Puget
| Sound, filed their petition in bankruptcy
recently, and executed an assignment,
Asher B. Bates, United States Bankrupt
Commissioner, was appointed assignee. lie
received the property of the firm in this city
and proceeded to Washington Territory to
receive the assets there. He took posses
sion of the steamer Verona the lumber
mills, stock on hand, etc, and, finding the
mills idle, started them up for the benefit
of the bankrupt firm and their creditors.
On the 31st of August, Judge Bates, his
wife Glidden and others, went aboard the
steamer Verona, to visit one of the mills
and take an inventory of the property on
| hand. What happened is detailed by S
correspondent Of the Times as follows:
MEIGs & GAwLEY S LUMBER Mill, Sept.
/, 1869. = Yesterday we went on board OF
the little steamer Verona, with heavy
rain; by 7 O'Clock we steamed to Port
| Orchard, sixteen miles, in an hour
| and twenty minutes Judge A. B..
Bates and wife, and Mr.. Glidden, OF the
| firm of Coleman Il Glidden, were the pas
sengers. On arrival at Port Orchard,
Judge Bates and Mr.. Glidden went ashore,
| leaving Captain Jackson, Perkins, the en-
| gineer, and Mrs. Bates on board. Mrs.
Bates sat in the cabin working on slipper;
soon great crowd came down to the boat.
Mrs. Bates became alarmed, and asked the
Captain if it rained too hard for her to go
ashore. AS the Captain turned to reply,
Mr. Spalding, man in Coleman's employ,
| 4nn lNIv.tl threw
board head first, and the gangplank after
him; they cut the ropes and started the
steamer.
Mrs. Bates being greatly alarmed,
screamed piteously, when Spalding came to
her with pistol cooked and said: ''Stop
your noise, old woman; you are going with
us to Victoria" Off III the distance was
Judge Bates, powerless and ashore. Mrs.
Bates then went into the cabin, put her
work into her carpet bag, put on her rub
| Der waterproof coat, and with Judge Bates
cane and bag in her hand, plead in the
name of their mothers to be put on shore,
but al to no purpose. She then
went to the wheel-house, and
begged the rutfian there to put
her ashore; and finally, the steamer
reached sand spit, when they threw
boat down and threw Mrs. Bates carpet
bag into the water, when she slid down the
steamers side into the boat-the rain pour
ing down-and the boat partly filled with
water, in which Mrs. Bates had to sit.
Mr.. Spaulding told her to go into all In
dian hut, knowing that she could not walk
back for the tide was coming III, and she
would be washed away; but the moment
Mrs Bates was landed she started rapidly
to walk for the shore. Spaulding screamed
''For Gods sake, don't try to walk, but
she crept over logs, and on her hands and
knees under logs so large that she could not
climb over; finally reaching point she
could not cross, when she saw boat COM
ing to her relief.
In the boat were Judge Bates Mr.. Glid-
den, Capt. jackson, and u young English
man, who begged Mrs. Bates to go back;
but they had started to some place to get
assistance Mrs Bates took her seat in the
boat in the rain and wet as q drowned
rat" Judge Bates sat on the wet carpet
bag The tide was against us. Captain
Jackson, just rs he was when hanled ont
of the water, his hands bleeding from the
mussels on the piles that he clung to.
CAPTAIN jackson and Mr.. Gildden rOwed
some seven miles (two desperate men they
were.) Presently steamer hove III sight,
and brought us to this place, where we
have been kindly treated. Judge Bates
chartered the steamer and the two captains
went on board heavily armed, III pursuit
Knowing the fugitiVes would have to stop
to wood on their way to Victoria, Judge
Bates then sent Indians with man III II
canoe to Seattle to telegraph to every port
to seize the steamer before she could get
into British waters.