New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-08-28
AN OLD LIE NAILED AGAIN.


RUIN CHARLES A. BoUTELLE AND 40" ne
vAMPED BY The DEMOCRATS FOR CAMPAl"N
PURPOSES IN MAINE.
To the razor Of The Tribune.
SIR: am American and have been III the manu-
of visiting Liverpool Mt different periods for more
than thirty years and am familiar by my orcuph-
tion and calling with the general history of Amer-
can commercial men who have In anyway had bus-
ness In this port and city during that pcrion
crave liberal space in your columns while glV" "
narrative of some personal events long gone by Dnt
which are revived of late in consequence OF poIIt
zeal struggle in one Of the States Of the Union.
learned recently, partly through information ac-
qulrcd at the American Consulate and partly
through the channels OF the professional detecIlve
that an attempt Is being made to fastcn odIun upon
a most worthy man, acquaintance OF mine WIN
he boy and later comrade III the Cnl''"
States Naval service during the war of the heD'l-
hon-whcTe so many men Of the mercantile MARINE
of the United States attcsicd their loyalty to the
Flag. | refer 70 Charles 4. Boutelle now running
for Congress in Maine. learned in short that DIS
political encm.e seeking TO use against MIN
some malicious charges preferred by some sailors
who wanted to force their discharge from hls
fathers ship IN order to claim extra pay for being
discharged in foreign port. The detectives nave
boosted here rather imprudcntly that they were
well paid bv their American employers and that
they were going 10 send them some of the reckless
afldavits made by the sailors that had been snbse
ouenty contradicted and shown 70 he false. As
was familiar with the whole case at the time II
occurred here have felt it duty to write to some
leading paper like your own about the facts, which
| shall now proceed 10 do.
TIE STORY OF TIE SHIP CONQUEROR
I'm the summer Of 1879 The American ship Con-
qucror arrived here from Mobile. with a coored
crew who had been shipped in Ilavre, France. The
ship was commanded by Captain Charles Boutene'
of Brunswick Maine, one of the best-known ana
most highly respected of American masters, and bis
eldest son. Charles 4. Boutclle, then about twenty
years of age, was chief mate on the ship, AZ that
time the anti-slayery feeling IN England was 50 eN-
IRENE that all colored men were pcttcd ~ the most
remarkable manner, while all Whlie Americans were
look ed up N as saVe-dvcTs and prosecutors oi the
negro Therefore, all quarrels or contIoNetsl'Sbe De
tween cOlorrd seamcn ana officers ol American YES
sels the public sympathy in Liverpool was sure TO
he ercev i'm favor Of the former. On the arrival oi
| the CouquerOr her cOloTed crew, who were not en-
titled under their contract to a discharge IN any
foreign port, demanded tnat they should he as
| charged, and threatened the captain ihat th'y
would force HIM to pay them of, They hr>t reSoited
/ to cOncOctiug and filing complaints at me ton.uIs
Office and charming Il-trcatment N the hands OF
this that officer but failing 10 cocrce the captain
in This way they Tesortod to a more dcsuerate meas
ure. One of the crew, named Peter Antonio llad
come Oh board ~ llaVre sick and had performed no
! work unlll the vessel arrived IN Mobile. wneh he
] a -
weeks before the vessel arrived, when ne again
| went off duty. complaining of Sickness and numb
ness in the lcg' some Of me crew SIN ms sted 'nat
/ he was shammng, and they drove him ont OF ne
/ f1reca-tir but the mate, Charles A. BOuteIe, had
him put back there aud ordered these same men 10
| help take care of hun.
DETAILS OF THE CONSPIRACY.
| On arriving in Liverpool the sick man was taken
! to the Northern Hospital aud the rest OF the crew
began to Try to force the captain 10 pay them of,
but be steadily maintained they must return TO the
ship While making their daily complaints at the
Consulate, they put in a charge that the SICK man
had been beaten by the mate. The United states
Consul at that time was the Hon. Beverly Tucker,
of Virginia who happened to be- absent, and mat crs
were largely IN the hand, of ms oepaiy, an English
| man named Wlidng, with whom the BouleiIrs,
father ana son, had sharp controversy Wnel las'
III that port when the deputy had threatened that
| he would yet show that he had power. Encourag-
ing the action at the sailors he sent ono OF MS en-
poyc- TO take down statement from the sick man,
/ and II puGpOrtcd to be charge by him that the
/ mate had badly used and beaten him. On seeing
| this statement entered at the Consulate the mate
took a young man named Hayden with uim ana
/ vent directly to the sick mans room at toe
hospital. The Invalid shook hands win the mat,
| and was glad To see HIM. though very III. " hen
told that statement purpor;lnc 10 be such charges
by him WAS on e at the Consuls, the SEX man eX-
| pressed surprise, SAID he had not made any such
statement, and that he had no feeling against the
mate who. he SAID. had " treated him klnily ana
KEPT others from abusing him" Ihe mate IeiHaiktl
/ that he wOuld come next day with notary aud
/ take a regular deposition. nat uigat the man
Antonio died. Mr.. llugl GRANGER Earnshaw,
young hospital surgeon. at once made post
/ mortem, and discovered that there was an old
/ fracture of several RIBS that had caused anenrlsm
of the great aOrta. the dIstenslon ana bursting OF
which had caused death But Mr.. Earnshaw, with
his egOtIsm and autl-Amcrlcan prcJudl &c, rilned
all points to intimate belief that the injuries had
resulted from ply seal violence. AcorOneTS inquest
was held, al which all parties were examined and
while the local prejudice was very marked, there
was evidently case against anybody, and the
coroner so instructed
TRIUNrHANT ACQUIrrAL.
But the Deputy Consul did not give up his pur-
pose then, but preparing his own statement of the
case to the American Minister, Mr.. Dallas he pro-
cured an order for the ARA gnment of young Bou-
tee before "A Liverpool mag strae under the extra
dition treaty, so that lie should be sent home for
tri al if there proved to be any tangible evidence
against him. On the examination before James
Aiken. esq, most worthy man, who had been a
| large shpowner and was familiar with sailors and
their tendencies, II was at ono shown that the man
| received his injuries two years before, when his
ribs were broken by the smashing of the boat inwhch
| he was by a whale. Also thai be ded to his in
! inry by falling ont of his bunk and that he had
told hls slipma'e SO. DIR. BickcrtOn, a very emf
nent surgeon reDuked steTny tine tippant AMI base,
less conclusion OF the young hospital surgeon ana
showed that the fatality resui c from the reguiar
action of disease caused by the fracture 81 the RIBS
two years before. The acCnsers utterly broke down
! when put on oath under cIOSs-eXamlndilon, ana
Magistrate Aiken, III dlsnIsslng the case indicated
that 1t had al the appea ance of a conspiracy by
the sailors to carry their point III their dispute
| about being paid oil, and that there nothing
| about the looks, words and manner of young Bou-
tele that could lend credcuce 10 such CHARGES.
lie dismissed the case. ana Consul Tucker WHO had
been called end the by protest gned by
"a hundred or more American shIpmasterS, Of whom
| was one, warmly congratulated the young man in
the magistrates room, SAID 1t was an obvious con-
| spracy and mat he should have the whole of their
! LYING complaints expuuged from the Consulate
re- ords. HE mother of young Boutelle = most IL
| fell amiabp |
Brunswick was also present and "a witness Al the
examinations and showed the faisity Of many of the
statements 1t was proved the testimony of
several OF the sailo s. well the cook that Mrs.
Boutelle had most humancly interested herself for
tie poor creature Oh the Passage.
| AFFIDAVITs WHICH TELL IHE TRUTH.