Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-08-27

can ma the mates. Inc Captaln called Tor the
mates again and again and there was no answer.
| Then went out and went forward on the star
board side, and stood close to Miller and Smith.
Klue was with them and was looking aft, where
the Captains cabin and my room were. said to
Miller "Wherc is that man with the broken leg 81
and they said, ole is lying in theboat across the
| forward hatch" aud / asked, sWhere are the
mates :" and they said, "They are al. right" and
also they said to me, "For Gods sake, why don't
you go forward and help that poor man with the
broken leg 7" and l answered, "Oh, no you don't
fool me-" l thought that there was something
wrong. then went aft and told the Captain that
| could not see or hear of the two mates nor the
French boy. II was then after eleven o'clock at
night, and / went back into my room and staid
there until about three o'clock in the morning.
The Captain and | fastened the doors and win
dows, because we thought that they might make
a rush, and we were frightened because we
conldn't find the mates. When daylight came
went forward with an iron bolt in my hand. The
Captain had double bareed gum but it had wa
ter in it, and he dried it and loaded it with shot
went to the main hatch, and they could see me- l
said again, "Where the matcsi :" and they
said, they all right, the same as before. They
then said, Come forward and we will tell you
something" and said, "You leave me alone; l
will go in my galley" The galley and the fence
where Six of the men, including the boy, slept has
partition between them. lit q fire in the gal
ley, and | came out after awhile and got a revol-
ver 1t was fve-barreled one. 1t never had
been fired, and l came out and tried one shot;
they were hiding behind the house. They came
aft after while with stones and bottles Miller
had stones, and told him would go forward to
see where the mates were and asked him to drop
the stones he had. He wouldn't do it. They all
had stones and bottles. l fired one shot at Kue.
but didn't want to kill him. didn't hit him
that time. The Captain had a revolver, and he
stood further aft but it was hard to hit any of
them, as they would run forward and back and
throw stones and bottles at us.
The Missus came forward and cried for them to
surrender and TO give up the mates, as we didn't
know what had become ofthem but they wouldn't
answer us, but kept firing things at us. If they
had got the Captains wife | think they would
have thrown her overheard. l saw Smith stoop
down to pick up piece of board, and shot at
him and hit him in the fingers. l thought he was
dead because he tumbled over but he didn't
halo. l saw Kluc lodging on the lookout, and |
fred at him He was laughing at me- When l
had fred all my charges would go into the gal
ley and load again. This kind of fighting kept ur
ali the day. klue laughed at me good many
times, and said, "By God, will hit you yet be-
fore get through with you" The Captain com
menced to fire quite lively, and his wife would go
in and out of the cabin and watch for her hus-
band but she didn't know how to load. l forgot
to say that the French boy had been gagged and
tied but he got away and came aft lie had are
volver, but he didn't hit any of them. The re-
volver was no good. During the shooting | at
last hit klue in the muscle CT the arm and think
the captain hit Smith in the wrist. Miller then
and struck the captai4l in the face and cut him,
and he was bleeding. Then we went aft and
clewed down the topsails. Jacob was aft with us,
but he didn't do any fighting. He was at the
wheel most of the time. Sometimes he left it and
the schooner would drift good deal. She was
also taking water, and we would 60 out and work
tine pumps for while, and then we would have
some more fighting. Toward night Of the first
day after the mates were murdered the Captains
wife came forward and begged of them to tell her
| nh tka 40 IA tho ata md
she spoke to Smith, but they wouldn't answer her.
We had bread and little water and some cold
salt beef, but we couldn't cook. We would do
| little fighting, and then we would eat q little
believe fired forty to sixty shots at them. The
boy was too frightened to do anything. The sec
ond night we had to watch all night, and we kept
ourselves in the cabin and kept q good lookout,
and we could see Miller aud Klue and Smith
walking up and down to and fro.
Toward two o'clock in the morning of the sec
ond night we couldn't see anything of them any
more, and at daylight we came out and tried the
pumps, and while We were pumping we couldn't
see them at all. We got in the house back of the
galley on deck, there are six hunks in them, and
they barrcaded themselves in and shut themselves
up so that we couldn't get at them We tore the
lashings off the windows of the house ON deck, so
that We could get at them. They tried to cut lash
ings of the boat and get her adlift. We saw one
bands were full. Jack was mostly at the wheel.
They closed the door of the forecastle house. l
| looked all over around the deck and among the
cargo 10 see if they we're intending to attack US
couldn't find them anywhere. Then l looked in
the windows of the forecaste to see if the mates
were in there, and couldn't see them took the
boards off the starboard side of the forecastle
house. l saw Miller in there Friday and fired
at him. TIE Captain says, Don't fire; they will
shove the mates forward if they get them tied, and
you will hit them, sure"
I cried out to Miller, Come out of there and
give yourself up and let me put the irons on you
or will shoot YOU" The Captain was by me,
with a revolver, waiting to get chance for a
shot. The Captain said, "Wnat are you doing,
steward 7" He was on the other side. | said,
Miller is in here and won't come ont" He said,
"Don'tshoo You wall be shooting the mates" l
had some boiling water ready by this time, and
got a boiler full and threw it on them, but it
up with canvas and cloths, and we couldn't scald
them. We bored holes in the wood work and
fired a dozen fifteen shots into them. saw
Smith, and think hit him. 1t was about eleven
o'clock the second day when they surrendered.
We asked them where were the mates. Klue cried
out to stop firing. where are the mates p asked
the Captain. Klue said "They are overheard; =
and the Captain said. "Who killed the first mate p
Smith said, 81 killed him." and then he asked
again, "Who killed Charley the second mate :"
and Miller answered, 81 killed the mate" Then
the Captain laid to them "Put your hands through
the widows and We will put the irons en- them
We made q chain fast to klue. He was shot
through the ribs by me. He was lying in bunk.
We put them all in irons. They said that they
were to land somewhere and scuttle the ship.
They were always quarrelling about something or
another; they had plenty of time for it, for it
long passage. When We got through there were
about fifteen twenty shots in their bodies. l
think. That is all l know of it, l think, the cook
concluded.