The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-10-08
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| TWO MEN COMMIT SUICIDE TO ESCAPE
t9-CRUEL TRRATMENT-OsE BECOMES EX:
1fAUsPED AND FALLS FROM THE YARD
ARM
[From the San Francisco Alta Californian, Sep
5..a tcmi,er ISL .3 /
The ship Sunrise, from New York, arrived
in port about O'Clock. yesterday afternoon.
She had scarcely cast anchor until she wGs
boarded by sailor boaSding-housc runners,
who ascertained durisg o. brief stay that
three men had been forced to commit sub-
eide by jumping oyerboardas the only means
OF escape from the cruel treatment to which
it is alleged they were constantly subjected
the officers of the ship. This story was
strengthened by the fact that the second
officer, Denis Maloney, had escaped from
the ship at the Eight-miIe buoy, took a
Whitehall boat, and landed at Meggs's
wharf. Me-. Franklin, known better as
Frenchy," because he is Frenchman,
keeps a sailor clearinghouse on Vallejo
street, and he boarded the vessel. He met
countryman on board, Charles Belle, who
asked Franklin to take him ashore. Belle
wore thoroughly demoralized appearance.
His face was black and swollen, dark semi
circles were visible under his eyes, and these
latter were red and sore-looking. His
clothes were filthy, and his whole look told
that he had been cruelty treated, and enlisted
for him the sympathy of Franklin. This
gentleman took him in his boat and rowed
him ashore. The captain and first officer
called on Franklin 10 return with the
Frenchman-a request which was positively
and emphatically declined. He brought the
poor fellow to his house, changed his dress,
and attended to his many wants. He was
the only seaman who left the ship yesterday.
They were not able to come ashore, as the
Sunrise lies in the stream opposite North
Point dock.
AN INTERVIEW WITH THE SAILOR.
4 reporter of the Alta obtained an inter-
view with Belle, the French seaman, late
last evening, at Mr.. Frankln's boarding
house. He is a young man, probably not
more than tweuty-one years of age, and his
face and body bear undoubted evidence Of
the brutal treatment to which he was sub
jIectcd. His statement is substantially It's fol-
lows: The Sunrise left New York on the
Sd OF May, Captain Clarke commanding,
The first officers name is Harris, the second
officer Denis Maloney, and the boatSwain's
name is Kelly.
The first day after leaving New York the
first mate commenced TO exercise tyranny
rs cruel and unrelenting aS it was barbarous
and savage, and continued this conduct I'M
Iii san Francisco was reached. The second
mate tMaloncy) did not beat or in any man
ncr cruelty treat the sailors, but often inter
tcrcd To prevent the first mate from carryn"
his brutal punishment to extremes. The
I I.cll Y ni n H.l-'' l.
ors often: and the captain joined in this
brutal conduct, which he tolerated. or APP
pcarcd to tolerate. in the man Harris. The
first officer made the men work until they
dropped down through exhaustion. lie
would bring them ont of bed at nights and
compel them to walk on deck, and If they
did not keep moving, orperchance ieii asleep
os they stood or walked, he would tap them
ON the head with his clcncllcd hist, Delaying
min. piece of rope, or anything handy. When
| he wished to awake thclr-on other occasions
| he used his poudcrous boots freely, and the
moor sailors sides are an evidence of the fact.
| This used to be i regular thing, and all were
treated alike. The captain struck the men
occasionally, and knew well of the first
officers conduct, who abused the men in his
presence, but not with his usual brutal Sc
verify.
THREE MEN WENT OVERHEARD.
Two preferred death to the treatment they
| received, and the third, weak and exhaust
ed, after long and severe punishment, fell
from the rigging and was seen no more.
| The first victim was John Brown. French
man. His countryman says he knows not
how he was lost. He was to have been on
watch between S and y O'Clock 2. NJ; he
was cllled everywhere. but he answered not.
| The first mate " licked" him every day two
| or three times; made him work twenty out
| of twcnty-four hours: would throw him
violently to the deck and kick him. 1t was
after all this terrible punishment had been
inflicted upon him, and that he was com
PEELED TO stand motionless on the deck for
| twenty.four hours without food or water,
that he abandoned the Sunrise and his life,
and sought relief in the unfathomable depths
of the ocean.
John Cardiff is also reported missing.
Cardiff was treated with the same cruelty Us
Brown, and even worse. He was not allowed
to sleep in the forecastIc, but was put under
the top9allant torecastlc, where he was COM
| peled to sleep for fifteen nights previous to
Pine night he is reported missing, with ho@>
! for his companions. What terrible crime
| How it cries to Heaven for redress The
man was half dcmented from suffering
from cruel treatment-from whipping. KICK
ing. walking, working, little food and less
sleep, when, to escape from life made
miserable beyond endurance. he employed
the little strength lie had left to end his eX-
| iStence.
The third victim, W. f. X. Carrigan, was
Young man, twenty years of age or per
haps less. He was the especial object OF the
hate and brutality of the first mate (liarris)
He was after the usual daily kicking and
| bruising with rope and club, forced to stand
on deck twenty-four hours without eating
or sleeping; after which he was sent on the 4:
top-sail yard. from which he fell, through
weakness and exhaustion, and was lost,
Belle did not see Carrigan fall, nor did he
see any of the missing disappear. They dis,
appeared, and nothing more was thought Of
| them.
| SEIZURE OF 4 PETTICoAT SMrGGLER-SlS
THOUSAND DOLLARS WORTH OF GOODS UNDER