Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-23
A Strange Old Story.

Tuesday, l2th May, lS67.-This day
 the weather came southwest little
 about o'clock ?. m., and about Vt
 anchored in Manson road, aud there
 We found on the road Captain Barnaby
 Captain BristOw and Captain Brown, all
 of them bound for Lessaria tO load. 18th
 May-Thls day, about 10 o'clock in rhe | forenoon, l went Ou board of Captain
 Barnab! 's shIp, and about o'clock Iu the afternoon We weighed anchor and
 sailed all of us for the Island Of Lessaria,
 the wind was vest-nOrthwest and better
 weather. l4th May-AbOut O'clOc6 We
 saw the Island of Lessaria, and abOut : we came to an anchor off the said island
 Tn l2-fatbOm water; then we were at
 west-sOuthwest. 18th May-We had tEe observation of NIT. Booty this day. I
 and MT. Ball, merchant, went on shore
 in CaptaIn Barnaby's boat tO shoot
 coDeys upon ShumbalOn, and when We
 had done we called all our men together
 by us, and about 3:44 Tn the afternoon,
 to our great surprise, we all of Us saw
 two men coming running toward us with
 such swIftn5ss that no living man could
 run half SO fast as they did run, when
 all of us heard Captain Barnahy say,
 Lord bless me, the foremost Is old Booty,
 my next door nelghbOr, but he said he dld not know the other that ran behind.
 He was m black clothes, and the fore most Tn gray; then Captain Barnahy de- sired all of us to take an account of the time and pen 1t down in our pocket books, and when We got on board we wrote It III our journals, for We Saw them Tn the flames of fire, and there wa, a great noise, which greatly afirighted uS ali. for We none of us never saw or heard the like before. Captain Barnaby sld he l was Ger am who 1t was we saw running 1 over Shumbalon and into the flames of | lire. Then coming home to England, 1 and laying at Grav.send, Captain | Barnaby's wife came on board 9th | October, l6S7, at which time Captain | Barnaby and Captain Brown sent for Captain BristOw and Mir Ball, merchant, to congratulate with them, and after some discourse Capt iin Baiuaby's wife started up and said dear my dear l will tell you some news, old Booty is dead He directly made answer that we all oi Us SAW hlm run into hell. Afterward Captain Barnaby's wife told gentle man m London of his acquaintance what her husband had said, and he went and told Mrs. Booty the whole affair Upon that Mrs. Booty arrested Captain Bar naby in thousand pound action foY what he had said of her husband. Captain Barnaby gave bail, and 1t came tu a trlal Tn the Court of Kings Bench, and they had Mir. BOoty's wearing apparel brought into Court, and the sexton or ihe parish and the people that were with him when he died, and they swOre tr what time he died, and we swore to our and 1t came to the same within TWO minutes. Ten of our men swore to he buttons Of his coat, and they were 'overed with the same sort of cloth his ,oat was made Gf, and so 1t was proved. ! he jury asked Mr. SpiDk ifhe knew Mir. Booty. He answered, l never saw him Ill he ran by me on the burning mount m. Then the Judge said, Lord have mercy upon me, and grant l may never ee what you have seen; one, two or three nen may be mistaken. bu: thirty men lever can be mistaken. So the widow ost her cause rom the records of Westminster. d