Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1869-09-29
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The Captain Thrown Overheard
Authority OF the United states Dtsre-

The Captain Thrown Overheard
Authority OF the United states Dtsre-
-ISrom the s@n Francisco Bulletin. Sept i4l
iMessrs. Gliden d Coleman, lumber firm
owning property in this city and on Puget
Sound, filed their petition in bankruptcy
recently and executed an assignment.
Asher Il. Bates, United States Bankrupt
Commissioners. wss appointed assignee. lie
received the property of the firm in thisc city
and proceeded. to Washington Territory TO
receive the assets there. lie 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 verons, TO visit one of the mills
hand. What happened is detailed by a
correspondent of tho Times as follows:
MEIas 4 GAwLEY's LUMBER MILL, Sept.
| 1, 1862 Yesterday we went on board OF
the little steamer Verona, with a heavy
rain; by z o'clock We steamed to Port
Orchard, sixteen miles. @ in On hour
and twenty minutes. Judge A. h.
Bates and wife, and Mr.. Glidden, Of the
firm of Coleman x Glidden were the pas
sengers. On arrival at Port Orchard,
Judge Bates and Mr.. Glidden went ashore,
leaving Captain jackson, Perkins, the tn
gineer, and Mrs. Bates on board Mrs.
Bates sat in the cabin working ona slipper
soon great crowd came down 10 the boat.
Mrs. Bates became alarmed and asked the
Captain il il mined too hard for her to 90
ashore. As the Captain turned to reply,
Mr.. Spalding, man in Coleman's employ,
took INN by the heels and threw him over
board head first. and the gangplank after
him; they cut the ropes and started the
steamer. go
Mrs. Bates being greatly alarmed,
screamed pitsously, when Spaltling came Ia
her with pistol cooked aud said: ''Stop
your noise, old woman; you are going with
us to Victoria. OF in the distance was
Judge Bates, poweflcss and ashore. Mira.
Bates then went into the cabin, put her
work into her carpet bag, put, on her rub
ber Waterproof coat, and with Nudge Bates
cane md bag in her hand, plessl I'm the
name Of their mothers to be put ON shore,
but all to =. no purpose. She then
went to the whcel-house, and
begged tho ruflan there TO put
her ashore; and finally, the steamer
reached sand spit, when they threw
a beat down and threw Mrs. Bates carpet
| lag into the watsr, when she slid down the
steamer's side into the boat the rain pour
| ing down and the boat partly filed with
water, In which Mrs. Bates had To sit.
Mr. Sponlding told her to go into an In.
dian Int, knowing that she couldnot walk
back. for tho tide was coming In, 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 40 walk, y but
she crept over logs, and on her hands AMI
knees under logs SO largo that she could no,
climb over; finally reaching'a point shs
could not cross. when she saw boat com
Ing to her relief.
In the boat were Judge Bates, Mr.. Gid
! den, Capt. jackson, and young English.
man, who begged Mrs. Bates to 60 back
but they had started to some place to gel
assistance Mrs. Bates took her seat in thu
boat id the rain. and wet as . drowned
! rat. Judge Bates sat on the wet carpet
bag. Tho tide was against MS. sCaptAir
Jackson, Just rs he was when hauled oui
Of the water. his hands bleeding from the
nlusAels, on 'the piles that he clung ~to
| Captain Jackson and Mr.. .CHliiden rowed
some seven miles two desperate mon they
twere.) Presently steamer hove in 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, in pursuit. =
Knowing the fugitiyes woald have 90 STOP
to wood on their way to Victoria, judge
Bates then sent Indians with man i'm {
canoe to Seattle to telegraph to every por
TO seize the steamer before she could ge
| into British waters.