The New York herald., 1873-10-06
BARBARTTY AT SEA.
Two Men Commit Suicide to Escape
Cruel Treatment.
One Becomes Exhausted and Falls
from the Yardaym.
The Captain and Nate Of the Ship Sanrise in
Danger Of Being Lynched.

the captain ana nate OF tne NIP SanrlSc ID
Danger Of Being Lynched.
IFrom the San Francisco Alta California, Sept. 2S]
The ship Sunrise, from New York, arrived in port
about one O'Clock yesterday afternoon. We take
the following rom her memoranda
On May L. lat. 81 so north. Ion. 65 Sc west
Charles Brown, a seaman, was found missing; ma
80 80 north, Ion. "a 90 west, John Condlfr was also
found missing; native OF England aged thirty-hve
years. On July 4, lat 10 -corth Ion. Al 30 west,
Z. T. Carrigan Nboy) lell from lore yard overheard
and was drowned he was q native or Ireland,
aged sixteen years.
She had scarcely cast anchor until she was
boarded by sailor b0Rrsaing house runners, who
ascertained during brief stay that three men had
been forced to commit suicide by jumping over
board as the only means OF escape from the cruel
treatment to which, it is alleged, they were con-
stantly subjected By the officers OF the Ship This
story was strengthened by the fact that the second
0fncer, Dennis MaJoney haa escaped from the ship
NJ the eightrmiie buoy, took Whitehall boat, and
landed at Meiggs' wharf Mr.. Franklin, known
better as 'Frenchyn because he is q French
man, keeps a sailor boarding house on Vallejo
street. ana be boarded the vessel He met a
countryman on board, Charles Belle, who asked
Franklin to take him ashore. Belle wore a thor
oughly denoraized appearance. Bis face was
black and swollen, dark semicircles were visible
under his eyes, and these latter were red and sore
looking. His clothes were filthy, ana his whole
look told that he had been cruelty treated and en-
listed for him the sympathy OF Franklin. This gen.
tleman took him in his boat and rowed him ashore.
The captain and first of1cer called on Franklin TO
turn with the Frenchman, 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 sea-
nhn an " VINO let she snip YESTERDAY they were not
stream opposite North Point Dock.
After the seaman had reached shore, and the
cruelty OF the officers was bruited along the city
front, general and very decided feeling OF indig-
nation was expressed even among runners, and 1t
would not have been safe for Maloney to put in an
appearance about that time. He would be forced
to stand some severe retaliatory measures or 60
overheard.
AN INTERVIEW WITH THE SAILOR.
Areporter or the ALd obtained an interview with
Belle, the French seaman, late last evening, at Mr.
FTanklln's boarding house. He Is young man.
probably not more than twenty-one years of age,
and his face and body bear undoubted evidence OF
the brutal treatment to which he was subjected
his statement Is substantially as f0nows;-The
sunrise left New York on the Sd OF May Captain
Clarke commanding. The first officers name Is
Harris; the second officer, Dennis Maloney and
the boatswain's name is Kelly,
Inc nrst day after leaving New York the first
mate commenced to exercise a tyranny as cruel
and unrelentlng as II was barbarous and savage; |;
and continued this conduct until san Francisco
was reached. The second mate, Maloney, did not
often lnterfered 10 prevent the first mate from
carrying his brutal punishment TO extremes. The
b0atSwain Kelly, FUSED to lickn the sailors often:
and the captain Joined in this brutal conduct
which he tolerated, appeared to tolerate in the
man Harris. The first officer made the men work
until they dropped down through exhaustion.
He would bring them out OF bed at nights and COM
pei them to walk on deck, and If they did not keep
moving, or perchance fell asleep as they stood or
walked he would tap them on the head with his
clenched fist Delaying pin. piece of rope or any
Jnlng Mandy. Wnen he wished to awake them on
traa
and the poor sailors sides are an evidence OF the
TACT. This used TO be regular thing and all were
sionaly and knew well OF the first officers conduct
who abused the men in his presence, but not with
~ THREE MEN WENT OVERHEARD.
Two preferred death to the treatment they re-
celved, and the third, weak and exhausted, alter
long and severe punishment, fell from the rigging
and was seen no more. The first victim was John
brown, Frenchman. His countryman says he
knows net how he was lost He was to have been
on watch between eight and twelve O'Clock P. NJ;
he was called everywhere, but he answered not.
The first mate ..lickedi him every day two or
three times; made him work twenty out OF twenty
four hours; would throw him violently on the deck
and Kick him. II was after all tns terrible punish
compelled to stand motioness on deck for twenty
four hours without food or water, that he aban-
doned the Sunrise and his life and sought relef In
the unfathomable depths OF the ocean.
FIFTEEN NIGHTS SLEEPING WITH HOGS.
John Cardiff is also reported missing. Cardiff
was treated with the same cruelty as Brown, and
even worse. he was not allowed to sleep in the
forecastle, but was put under the topgalant fore
castle, where he was compelled to sleep lor fifteen
nights previous TO the night he is reported missing
with hogs for his companions. What a terrible
crime How 1t cries to heaven for redress The
man was half demented from sufiering-from cruel
treatment-from whipping kicking, walking
working little food and less sleep. when, to es.
cape from life made miserable beyond endurance.
ne employed the little strength he had left TO end
his existence.
DEATH FROM EXHAUSTION
The third victim, w. f. K. Carrlgan was a young
man, twenty years OF age, or perhaps less He was
the especial object OF the hate and brutality OF the
first mate Harris. He was after the usual daily
kicking and bruisng with rope and club, forced to
stand on deck twenty-four hours without eating or
sleeping, after which ne was sent on the topsail
yard from which he fell, through weakness and ex-
haustlon, and was lost. Belle did not see Carrigan
1a, nor did he see any OF the missing disappear
OF them
The sasr repeated many lesser acts OF brutal
ity, enormous in themselves, but, beside the more
despotlc cruelty OF forcing these men into the
arms OF death, small and insignificant. He often
told them that they would never reach San Fran
cisco, anc that he would compel them TO Jump
overheard. When the men were weak and
iatgued from the combined effects of punishment,
want of rest and labor he would order them aloft
and then try to throw them from their places by
letting the halyards go and other devices.
Sonrs SuT informant kept for tn,rtysx
hausted and sleepy he was able to
use the scraper with his usual force, the first
struck him with it on the head The seamen were
Kept thirty-six hours without iood, and never got
more than lour out eof twenty-lour hours sleep.
They were, to use his own expression .a licked
1eariuny." HIS body, arms and race bear un-
doubted evidence OF cruel punishment.
Inc iact tnat the second mate, Maloney. aban-
doned the snip before coming to anchor led to the
strong suspicion that he was the party guilty of
this terrible cruelty. But it appears from Rejiesa
statement that he was kind and by his interference
saved them from the tyrannical Tascay cruelty Of
the man, or monster, Harris. The Captain and
Harris .growled" at him because he was nor crnei
and did not make the men work more. He never
injured any one during the voyage, and Belle is AZ
o loss TO know why he lett the ship so suddenly
unless he wanted to escape from the Others ~
The case calls for immediate and strict examtna
tion. Men forced overheard by crueltyl The very
idea suggests the appropriateness of particularly
hot corner for the perpetrator of the crime We