The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1869-10-06

ATTEMPT To RUN AWAY WITH STEAMER
Messrs- Glidden & Coleman, a lumber firm
owning property in this city and on Puget
Sound, filed their petition in bankruptcy re-
Gently, and executed an assignment Asher
B. Bates, United States Bankrupt Commits
soner. was appointed assignee. He received
the property Of the firm in this city, and pro-
eeeded to Washington Territory to receive the
assets there. He took possession of the steam
er 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 SIst 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 a correspondent
of the Tunes, as follows:
MICS AND GALwAT's LuMnER Mills
September LIST. 1869. (
Yesterday we went on board the little steam
er Verona, with heavy rain by seven o'clock
we steamed TO Port Orchard. sixteen miles, in
one hour and twenty minutes. Judge A. B..
Bates and Mr.. Glidden went on shore, leaving
Captain jackson, Perkins, the engineer, and
Mrs. Bates, on board Mrs. Bates sat in the
cabin working on a slipper; soon a great
crowd came down to the boat. Mrs. Bates
became alarmed. and asked the Captain if it
rained too hard for her too 90 ashore. As the
Captain turned to reply, Mr.. Spaulding, aman
in Coleman's employ, took him by the heels
and threw him overheard head first and the
gang-plsuk after him they cut the ropes and
started the steamer.
Mrs. Bates being greatly alarmed screamed
piteously when Spalding came to her with his
pistol cooked and said ." Stop your noise, old
woman; you are going with Us to Victoria. :"
Of in the distance was Judge Bates pOwerless
and ashore. Mrs. Bates then went into the
cabin. put her work into her earpet-bag, put
on her rubber waterproof coat, and with
Judge Bates cane and bag in hand, pleaded
in the name of their mother to be put on shore,
but all to no purpose She then went to the
wheelhOuse aud begged the rufian there to put
her ashore; finally the steamer reached a 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 pouring dOwn-and the boat partly
full of water in which Mrs Bates had to sit.
Mr. Spalding told her to 60 into an Indian
hut, knowing she could not walk back, for the
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.
Spalding 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 q
point she could not cross, when she saw boat
eomingtO her relief.
In the boat we're Judge Bates, Mr.. Glidden,
Capt. Jackson, and young Englishman, 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, wet
as drowned rat" Judge Bates sat on the
vet Garnet bag The tide was AGAINST MS
Capt. Jackson, just as be was when hauled out
of the water. hands bleeding from the mussels
on the piles that be chung to. and Mr.. Glidden
rowed some seven miles 1.-TWO desperate men
they were). Presently steamer hove in sight