National Republican., 1873-06-20

| fore, desire YOUR statement A. carefully made
as possible, and as fully as you can recall the |
After giving in detail the result Of hi. on.er. |
vntlons, Mr.. Myer tcstlnsd "a follows
nyoLRDnsa cArTAlN HALLe pEArH:
Soon afterwRrd came back to the shIp, and |,
iound Aft, Morton busy In getting Captain Han
TO bed lie had already complained about being
a,n ssS, and mhs % Wa there he went 70 bed ithen
MAR watches then, and my watch commenced, I |
only heard he was sick athis bowels when came |
on board. Every time came on board ship saw |
him, because lived In the came cabin. Br. Hes |
sels and the engineer, schumann, and the stew |
ard and cook slept there also. ] had only one
conversation with Captain Han while he was |
sick, That was after he became delirious. Dur |
Ing the time that he was delirious he had the /
,dea that somebody intended @ mur1er him, and
he accused In his dellrous tax one person after
| another Of having such intention. I was very |
busy most Of the time, because Dr. Bessels had |
| 90 had the whole labor At the observatory on |
| myself. Mr.. Bryan only attended 10 the astro-
nomical observations, Captain Hall called me 70 /
| on board the ship intended to XIII him, and he /
wanted me to stand by his side. He did not men, /
ton any name At that time, bot At different tines
| he mentioned most OF the persons on board. He /
was lnsenslble the nrst three days he was slck, /
which think WAS caused by paralysis, and he /
snsT n @o' before he @ dsd
only convcrsation ever had with him after he /
was sick was what I have stated. lie did not
q. Did you at any time hear him accuse any
body OF an intention 70 murder himf A. Yes,
slr. When was abou, the cabin could heai
sitting by his side, and he would be talking very
pleasantly, and all Of . sudden he whould say /; /
what .SI,, m 4 M; What T. in!s blue smoke and
poisonous yapors, he said.
q. Did you ever hear him accuse anybody to |
other People' When one was sitting by him |
would he speak OF other peOple7 A. Yes, sir. |
lie would accuse other people, and ask the pro |
| lection of the man sltting by his side. |
/ HE ACcrsED Mr.. CHESTER hNDc AIT. BuDpN1roN- |
those were the two principal ones-and DR.. |
Bessels.
q. Tnen, when these persons were sltting by |
sir was under the impression that he sscased |
most everybody, but those are the only ones
q. When taking with Chester, for instance, |
would he accuse anybody elsef A. Yes, sir; he |
would accuse Capt. BuddinRton. |
Q. Did yOu hear him talk 10 Dr. Bessels7 A. |
Q. When taking to him, did you hear him 40 |
cuse anybody else, and ask the doctor to stand |
o a.m a, a. % 90 not fememSer % nat n, ssssd Nun
q. WGshe under regular treatment A. Yes. |
| sir.
q. Do you know what remedies were given |
hlm7 A. lie gave him great many; hyperier- |
mic injections OF qulnine, believe, for one. For
three days he partially recovered.
q. VINO were his Stiendantsf A. Dr. Beasels |
stald with him most always and then he had
man by the name Of Maucn, who acted as pri- |
l
most alWays. When he was 10 delirous that he |
thought some person had the Intention 10 mnr. |
der hun, he had Manch 10 taste everything that |
came into the cabln-medlcine and food, even |
| the water he drank. |
q. When he got better did he recover his |
selses; 4. No, sir, not fully, but partially.
| q. Did he get no about the cabin and writei /
A. lie never wrote that know; he had Msuch |
/ read TO him.
p 6% %,S Se a., dictate Sc to TO- M.1ss s to T,ss @
MAuch read to him, and sometimes he would |
start TO take an interest In some business mat |
paTps ". . ss h wss Ss
| recovered he had the Intention
TO afyE uF TIfK COMMAND
| Of the vessel TO Captain BuddinRton. That H. |
he called him into the cabin, and told him be
would give up the command TO him; that he |
would have the papers made out Immediately; |
but he dld not do u. heard Captain Hall say |
o. Was he taken suddenly sick again after get.
ting better A, lie began 20 become more de /
lfiOus, and to show the desire OF staying In the
bed. lie remained In this state untl he died |
| That II, was told that for the twenty-fouT /
hours before he died he did not speak word TO
| anybody. lie very often had Joe and Hannah /
called TO his bedside 10 attend to him. AZ times
| he would labor under the Impression that all the /
hin, and T he would cali Tor Joe and iIaapaha And
have them sit by him. When he got tired OF |
them he would have somebody else. think he |
servatory when he died. lie died In the night. |
IL was on the sth OF November, 1871. II WAS /
dark continually then, and only twilight al noon.
took charge OF the vessel. The Intention then |
was that the Instructions should be carried out |
Those directed that Captain Buddington should |
| q. What was done with Captain Hairs pa
peis. A. They were taken charge Of by Cap
tam Buddlngton. There was no public exami- |
nation OF them. ! have seen the outside OF the |
papes many times, and have seen Captain Bud |
dtngton looking at them. lie had them In q
large tin box. As understand, there are q few |
II n MI Han
ALI THE OFFICIAL rAYEHs
Gsss, private papers nj theTein, and Joe and Han
nah, when they were. started out on the Ice, we
found had Possession OF tue writng-desk Of
| !aptain Hall. There was no Oificihl action nor
ihey weheinto1i issriaiRgto possession.
have never read them. ! wrote the nrst six OF |
seven pages Of Captain Halls journal. That Ia |
Sayass SeSr SsGS sSp D. iss ss.S q ns
went into command, the vessel was hauled up, |
and We commenced regular series OF obseTya-
vationA on shore, until, the 22l or aIth OF No
yember, the ship broke out in a heavy northeast
gaze and drifted In the darkness on TO Proyi- l
dsnce iceberg. IL that had not been IN the way. |
winter; but IL was brought upon the Iceberg. |
Then, Ia the darkness and heavy snoW-storm,
the vessel was fastened to the iceberg. AMI II re-
inained there during the winter.
BuDDTsGroNs DRusEES ESNEsa.
" DlI you ever Know OF Captain BuddlngtOns
6eiag drunk on board ship7 A. Yes, air; he was
suathwaTd. do not remember whether he was
drunk when we got beset win this last noe |
there was only alcohol on board, and he would
hold, aud he nAl free access toit i do not know
what ha made Of it; all that know n that he
used this alcohol; that IL, | heard Of it It Was
very common with him, whenever there was any
danger. that he would like TO drink.
q. DID anybody else nn board the ship have
nqsSod, that YOU Know ois a. do not know Of
Myers description Of the parting Of the Ice
noe party from the ship does not differ nate
as those Of Mr.. Bryan. which were Ia TN boxes,
were lost lie describes as follows
THE LAST vIKw OF THE roLARn.
We then pulled up on the Ice, and while we
we're there, on tho Ice, the ship was seen coming
down under steam and sail toward the ialan1
W., we iosI @ ner qat o. sight behind this Island.
hlnd tue Island. They say she went into harbor
between Northumberland Island and the shore.
she must have come wtthln about four or ave
miles OF us, because We could see ever saii
She mad all sails on: we could see the hull She
was end on 70 US, coming toward us apparently.
v Did she look as II there were anything spe-
oia the matter with her. A. No, sir. % not
think she could have been In any worse condi-
non. because, when we got away from tbs snip,
tue engine and pipes and wells were frozen 10
sohd, 50 that Il would take them At least ten OF
Twelve hours TO get the engine going. SO, n she
not nave Kept her ap Tsey could mo-, hsys ssd
anything but hand pumps until they could get
me steam, and they could not get that In less !
thhh tth Ut lNtNe nOufu. I could not see nny-
body on board. The Ice between Us and her was | Z
principally small ice. She was In clear water, |
not In any Ice at ALL The boat-mAat was erected
and rubber blanket fastened TO It, with the !
black side toward the ship.
q. Could your two boats be seen7 A. think ,
so. Afterward had an opportunity 10 see the !
men and one boat distance OF about half q I
mile. thought at the time IL was q VERY large J
Ice.
q. As you stood on the Ice was the sky and !
land behind YOU on the icef A. Ice. We ex- =
pected them tOaome, and did not give up the Y
hope until we saw that we were drifting On and a
they did not come yet. We did not see any HIN
drance Whatever. ! at the time thought there .
must he something the matter with the ship or y
they would have come. the fee between Us and 9
The shore was the small "pash" ice, that q vessel
1an very easily steam through: boat could not II
get through it-lt w0ud be stove In. have seen
he Tigress going through worse Ice after we got u
IN board OF her. We had been In worse ice In
he Polaris. Capt. Bud,llngton had the trial OF
yolng through much worse ice once, but did NOT .,
'ucceed very we'll. A
CALCULATIONS REdAHDINd TIE foLARn, d
think that even on the following day, after nj
We got on the Ice, there was q great lead OF
water TO the southwark, and II the Polafls hal NJ
'een there at the time, she might perhaps, have
ounded Cape York and got down TO Tesalnsak.
Q. VIII she 10 likely 10 have wintered where