The Newtown bee., 1877-11-22


 the best thing 10 do when he got to San Francisco would be 10 write to some friends at home, but not let his people know where he WAS. Colton Was cry. ing, and seemed to feel very bad. Then they saw me and shut up. think Bean has made that boy Coton run away from school, or something of the sort
 l told the mate to make work as light as be could for him, and once, when he brought me up Il cup of tea on the poop asked him if his friends knew that he had started for California.
 'Oh, mo- he said. but could not get along well at home, and 1 thought il best to go awey' You knew Bean well al home, didn't You asked.
 Yes, sir, said he, and he looked red and confused.
 Did he induce you to run away :?
 No; no, sir, said he; but he told me he was coming iH lhis ship That was all said about it then. A week or so afterward, when LC was cleaning up my cabin, he got hold of photograph of | my wife. which ar artist in Liverpool | had undertaken 10 color and had made d botch of it.
 Did you ever do any painting?' 1 asked. He said he could paint little, and got box of water color paints | from the third mate and some brushes and gave him a few photographs to color. You sec how well he did it. He surprls- ed me-
 Then the captain opened his album | showed the reporter some photographs which were very skilfQlly and artlstical- | ly retOuched
 Il saw him once," continued the cap tain, painting the autograph Of fine looking old lady. He told me it was Beans mother. Well, 10 come to the day the accident occurred. was just going to call the young chap ait U help lnc sail maker, wuO Was working on the poop, when eQuall came along. The mate sang out, tine royal halyards were let go, i'd CJlton jumped inlo the fore rigging to get alOlt and stow the fore royal, tor IL WAS darkcning up to wind ward. Bean also got into the rigging, and seemed to want to get up, but Col ton got ahead of him,
 lie laid out on the yard, got hold of the CaAVas, and the LeXl thing we knew something came down on ucck with q lhud that uudc me shudd,r. The first one al the poor fellows side Was Bean. lie turned him over, for the face was to- ward the deck and then he feil down in d fit, and the DUalswain attended to him. The watch carried COlIon's body aft. lis neck Was broken. Afterwards In prcparlng l!.e body tor It's walery burial place we Knew the whole story" and the skipper look glass Of sherry, and his eyes We're moist.
 "What Was the mystery" asked the reporter
 Well, said the captain, just this: Colton did not belong lu our slde of the decN. The body that WAS sewed up and launched int the deep was young wo- man, and she Was Beans vile, for 1 found the marriage certificate in Beans trunk with some letters that partially eX piainGd the matter. But I'll tell you about that aitcrward. As soon "s Bean got right he came aft looking like q ghost, and he knew by my face that l had discovered tke secret,
 Captain" said he, taking off his hal, would you have any objection 10 letting ne stay alone with il his night 7"
 Il let him stay al night by tue body and l can imagine wlIaI the poor; feiluY suffered. l never saw such dcspairing face on ! man in my life as that which met me when l opened the cabin door and the hands Were sunmOned for lhe funeral services. He stood by until the last moment, and when the body slipped of into the Sea, and the shot carried it down, down into the blue depths, he watched it until it disappearcd Then he jumped on the topgalLnt Tail, and before any one could grab him he was gone"
 And the letters ?'
 "I hunted through his trunk" said the skipper, and found bundle of let lers which am going to enclose to his friends at home From what | could learn troH them it appears that Bean (which was an assumed namc) was young fellow of good family but very wild. The girls people We're also well off and reputable She knew him from boy aud ran away with him, and they were married. He went to sea after that and she went back to school. Wh,n he returned they tried to ,maks il up with the old folks. but they woaid not have ii. So the young fools, without u siypgnce Ln bless themselves with. come