New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-24
LOCAL MISCELLANY.
THE CHARGE AGAINST ENGINEER REAL

THE CHARGE AGAINST ENGINEER READ.
TIE ACCUSED MAN TRANSFERRED TO THE UNITED
STATES NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. or THE
VESSEL BY AN ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY.
The police of the Third Sub Precinct of Brooklyn
yesterday transferred FIRST Assistant Engineer Rob
crt II. Read Of the steamship Knckcrhocker. to the
custody of the United States authorities to answer
to the charge of causing the death of the llre'nan
William kranich while on the voyage from tinVana
TO this port. Deputy United States Marshal Ernie
received the prisoner and heard statement OF ttlc
case The sailors aud trcmen. who first mad" the
complaint to the police were sent before Assistant
United States District-Attorncy Angel, and re-
peatcd their story of the affair Fritz Rahmlow. a
fireman, who i'll the tire,roon at the time OF the
alleged assault, making the formal complaint.
Three others John Teschow and Gustav Blande-
sky, sailors, and Herman GoSslng coal-passer We're
before United States Commissioner John J.
Allen - who made out formal warrant
aGr the hh seas apon William KTanch. within the
admiralty jurisdiction of the United States. Dep
yMarshal BggaIt took charge of the prisoner aud
aIragned hun before Comm sSOntr Allen. The
charge read to hun. and he pleaded not guilty
through his counsel, Zimmerman & jacobs. The
prisoner and witnesses Were sent to tie RAYMOND
street jan. The examination was adjourned until
Tomorrow at p.
i;ead is about twenty-iv or thirty years old Of
Medium eight, and thick set. He is pleasant in
feature and speech, and has no appearance of being
violent. He says that. noticing that Kranichs fire
was poor, he thought he was trying to shrk, az
dered HIM To STIR It up. just then CHEZ Engineer
descending the ladder, took Kranichs slicng
bar" raked oil the Goals and removed the clinicrs
out of his iuT1iacc He had hardly come up before
kramch came to where Read stood on The grazing
got q drink OF Ice water, and leaned out of the
port doorto get some air Read pointed to "A steamer
approaching them and said We don't want her
10 pass us. Get back aud attend To your fire CIV
ing HIM u push The Iuan stumbled down the lad
der and Tell into a heap Both engineers thought
lie was shamm;ng bat IN returning from th, en-
gine-rOom little later and finding him still living at
the loot OF the ladder ordered him taken on deck
ana called the ships surgeon. Read says he did not
strike the man expose hlm i'll any way to the heat
of the furnace
nIStr +ho
steamer and made a careful examination of the
place where the assault il alleged to have taken
place, and questioned the officers and crew. DR.
Nlelet, the surgeon, stated to Mr.. Angel that
kranlch on June 26 cOmplaiue of the heat and he
gave him dose of bromide of potassium. The man
fires to attend to. After coming up two of the lad
derS and getting drink from q tank, he either
slipped or fell down the last ladder. Read came
down and fastened up the last ladder and took hold
The place is dark and Read opened Il furnace door
Mr.. Angel had Rainbow show him how long il was
held OPEN and timed him. 1t was about twenty
seconds. Read then drew Kranich over little dis
tauce under the yentllator, and, closing the first
door, opened another, not MI Angel thinks 10 roast
also had RahnIow take him up the ladder as lie had
taken kra,lich and Ill doing Nj. Augclls LETT hip
Lit the side of the hatch. According 10 the sur
geon, the only bruisc on Kr,nich was a
Angel did not believe The story that Goals were
raAed ont by kranichs side He od the engineer
That he thought the man had been badly treated
but the engineer said he had been shrking curing
all the voyage, and that they had much trouble
from such men. Stiil, Mr.. Angel thought if one
brutality treated; he should have been examined
when he complained of being sick.