The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-02-13
NAVIGATING ON THE OCEAN.
THE CREW THO LTyED ON THE CORPSE
OF THEIR sHJpMdTE
TIE Ktiiinn OF George senmnn-The story OF
the Man who Cut up hi. body and Packed
~ In the Brine Bnrrei-lsenJy 10 Answer.

TIE K,innH OF George senmnn-The story OF
the Mnn who Cut up his body and Packed
~ In the Brine Bnrrei-Nendy TO Answer.
The crew OF the wrecked schooner Sallie
NJ. Sherman who were driven by hunger to
eating one OF their shipmates. off the Bcr-
mulas ntcr they had been seven days without
food we're found yesterday in the handsome
tlrce- mastel schooner Spccdwell. which rcs-
cued them on the 3lst ut. and brought them
into this port The story Of Cnpt Hgbee. ofhe
Steelman was published in THE SUN Of yester-
day.
Walter Sampson. who shot George Seaman in
the forecastle. Is short. thick. full-iaccd ne
gro. 81 years Of age. Since Jan. 81. the date OF
the rescue. he has fully recovered from the ei-
fccts Of his long fast. lie SAYS he got terribly
hungry and weak from working nj the pumps.
At one time the schooner WIS within sight of
the Bermu1as but the gale came up again and
blew them of.
On the morning Of Jan. 80" Sampson said.
George Seminar. George Hicks. and |. all coli
pred were IN the foreraste together. We were
oil So weak we couldn't work ut the pumps
seaman gave out first. I think he wasn't any
worse than the rest OF us. but he got crazy. /
don't think he was in his right mimi when hc
came ahonrd the schooner. He had threatened
10 kill the Captain and David Barrett. He got
angry with Barrett because Barrett told him TO
come out Of the forccastle and work at the
pumps l was IN my DUNK L don't know
whether 1t was O'Clock. o'clock. or IL O'Clock.
AL know isthat it WINS in the morning. Seaman
10 a mulatto. He shipped at Charleston. but
said he came from London. He was n smart
fellow. He used 10 be head cook on the United
Btates man-oi-war Wabash. Once he worked al
steel making in Philadelphia under the name Of
Joe Williams. We used to think It rather odd
that a fellow rs smart as he was should ship be-
fore the must Some say he was 2 spaniard.
that morning and found me in my bunk UNI
dressed. H. ordered me 10 get M and 20 out
don't know why he wanted me 70 20 out. H.
wis in NV bunk. l think It was only a crazy
idea. ent NJ md buried on. with
afraid o. him. Whrn had got my clothes on
h9cked np towari III" door; Keeping my eye on
him. just ~ | stood hy the door he, yelled nj
meto got out. and put hand into the pocket
OF his jumper. H. didn't draw a pistol. hut
saw he, was Go,ngto, Attrrward ", found TINT
his hand in was ready for him. II was then
6etweon, him gnd me who could shoot H.
one only wound That was on the LETT side
The frst man to come into tho iorecastie after
ihat was. the cook. Sylvester, Hrrber. seaman
tased himself III and took hold of him by the
legs. Then he f'l down and died. The next
man to come into The iorecaste was Capt. Hig-
De-. He NSkea NIl NN0nt what hhl nlpI 'nri,
and GeorGe Hicks and ioli him. Then W. all
went ont on deck. The body av there Just rs il
'ell for two hours at leust. Nobody went into
George Hcks". Who S stood st near while Sampson
was being Questioned. confirmed all the essen
tial points of the foregoing story. Sampson
said his homo WAS in B,auiort. South Carolina.
where his mother lv.~. II father. Jncob
SAMPSON. lived in Brooklyn las, summer Wal
stova, founder by trade.
Who cut up the body?" the reporter asked
Th"Te is the man" said short. hollow
chenked. wiry. red-wh isksrrd sailor, standing
at SIMPSONS side The speaker had extended
pointing at his own breast This was David
Barr-tt OF Great E.g Hurbor. y. J. He is one Of
thr white sailors.
aus | wanted him to 90 10 work. He had
threatened to Kill me-, have no doubt that if
would have Killed two or three of ~. We
hadn't proposed to draw lois 10 ser who should
b. killed. Tint was not talked about. but we
did talk about Seaman's dying. We thought he
couldn't lnst lo1,r. the way he was. and W. hoped
he would dc. Werwerr looking forward to that
"a our Inst hope. We had plenty OF water. II S
DEATH W. knew. would be life to us. but nobody
proposed y nj MIN. or any one else. Alter he
had been dead for some time want 10 the Cap
int the ioLe'astle. where the body had
ben lett ms was m the afternoon .
body on, Of the fore asile 10 an open place on
re deck by the sidt ~ me mg1nmust. some y
IN part OF the work was heTause ] was the
strongest man in thr vessel nj that time. After
cuii ne the clothes away. cut piece ot fish
weighing three or -FOUR pounds on ot one Of the
legs. THIS | put on the stove and larpoiled.
Alter that hroled pieces o. Il on a gridlron.
AMI gave them 10 ne ST. did az of th" COO T.
idea OF II, but as REMEMBER the taste, i was
very good-oet.r than thnt OF any m-nt | ever
tasted. Some OF tlem put mustard on Il, and
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