The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1878-01-17
Of Capt. III. Ko;nn,

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mnde by Capt. Henry Kohn, in refer
euce to the killing of Capt. Hugh Nc
Cafferty in Dec ember last. This con-
fession was made to the court, during
the examination. in Galveston, on the
| 3lst IF December, 1877:
When we left he commenced quarrel
ing with me. He says it's your fault
that We took the passengers aboard. |
| did not get no money from them; they
would not pay me their passage. told
him it could not be my fault, he was
boss in the vessel. He took them aboard
himself. and he couldn't blame me for
it. So he cursed and sweared about
these passengers all the time. / did
not answer him at all about it. He kept
| on cursing about these passengers, SO
answered him at last, anu l says if you
did not get no money from them, yen
don't lose more on it than L do. We
were beating up and down from one
side to the other till Pelican Island
There is a point sticking out, and he
was steering, and he run too far over,
and run the vessel aground. lie sang
ont to me, let her get run down; ran
forward and let go the jib halyards. but
the jib did not come down all together
He came forward, too. He says to me,
Cd yonr sonl to hell, why didn't
you haul the jib down? 1 asked him,
| what's the use, the schooner is fast
| aground. Don't make any difference ;
HAT is what lie said to me. ] run to
haul the jiD down ali together. The
same time he says to me, get out of my
way, and he hauled off and hit me un-
der the left jaw. kept quiet: did not
say anything. So lie took a pole and
tried to push the schooner around, but
the schooner was too fast, and he could
nOt move hef. S, he caine back TO me
and asked me, what's the matter with
you, told him, if you keep on that
way y0u viii scare fellow. He says,
lever mind thai is nothing. Let us
bring an anchor ont | answered him,
It is no use for MS to bring IN anchor
o'lt; the tide is running III We will gft
off without Bringing an anchor ont.
The water will Use ttnt much that the
schooner will got ahDat. Ia about an
hOnr or thtee quarters. Of nn hour, IT
might he, we took u pole and pushed
the schooner. and We felt that thr
schooner commenced getting more wa
ter ond"r her. Ne kept pushing until
We had Der around Il guod deal, SO that
Inc jiu would draw iuil from the Other
SIDE. We au.cd the ib to windwari
and hauird The fOwsilll oni too to tLr
weather side, and the schooner com
m"nced slonghiHg around. We got off
tAeh. 1t was about near snnduwn. We
colnmencei beating a9aln, bat thr tide, !
ii seems to ne, commenced Turning. |
Ne dIdn't gam 81 much as what We done |
before by tac&ing ! said, l don't be,
lieye HAT We VIII get up with this tide. |
de Says, never mind, We wlii try itany- |
how We made several taeks, from one
side TO tine other, and tie wind was
puffy. Al once he says to me, have you
been sewing that thimble on the topsaiI
yard ? told him yes. lie says to me.
that is very badly made fast, it's loose
again. Then he says, let MS haul that
gatf topsail down. / says, all right, |
ran to The tack and he let go the tiller
aud ran to the halyards to lower it down.
So the gatf iopsail didn't come down
like it used to, because the thimbe was
oif, came down top first; the wind blew
it off that way. He says to me, d-n
your soul to h-ll, why didn't you sew
chat thimble fast better. and the same
time we We're working on the gaH top
sail. | said, that amt my fault, told
you good many times to get somespun
yarn and sizing stuff; we have not got Il
piece OF rope-yarn on board that is any
accouns, it is all rotten, and at the same
time the schooner came about by her
self, and the center ooird was d ,wn to
the bottom, and by coming about the
came up little and the
rod went forward, the foreboOm hooked
,n the center-board rod, aud he says
I'd d. the foreboon is foul OF the
center board rod, and he run there and
wanted to clear it, and there was cOu-
pie Of pieces OF wood lying on top OF the
ieck-load, he tumbled down on them,
and as he raised up the foreboon slip
led clear itself and struck him and
shocked his cap overheard. He got
mad over that and came running for
ne. ran from hiH He says that's
,our fault, | lost my cap on account of
hat thimble on the gait topsail yard /
nade up the gaff-topsail and put it away.
We kept beating along. He commenced
with me again, and mention
ID these passengers. Then told hhn,
ook here, Huqhey, you say them pas
didn't pay You, He says no,
hey did not. ] said, one OF the pas
ellgers that came ON board with You
old me they pad yon So apiece. He
ays that's Cd d-n sinking lie. /
ays, ii it wasn't SO they wouldn't say
o. So he says, do you believe it? /
,pswered him, just as well as not. So
le commenced cursing about me and