Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-05-14
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'Ay, ay, shipmates, l know it
is my turn now, SO hold up while
get wind said old Jack Caswell,
as we lay becalmed off St Verne
one sultry day in August, and to
pass away the time that hung ra-
Their heavily on our hands, were
engaged in story telling.
Lets see, he began after a mo-
ments reflection, sit was in the sea-
son of sc that I hired under old
Capt. Warrenton, who run a
schooner on the coast of the Gulf.
She was a small craft, of not more
than hundred and fifty tons bur-
den, and on the trip / am speakin'
Of was loaded at Mobile, with a
cargo for New Orleans
Besides the skipper and my
self, then lad Of only fifteen.
there was but one hand. AS tho
craft was easily handled, and the
runs short, Capt Warrenton sell
dom ever shipped more than four;
and on this time, when we got
ready to sail, and one of the men
couldn't be found, he concluded
to start with me and the other one,
a sailor named Ned Allen, for
there was prospects Of a quick
and easy passage
There was great excitement in
Mobile at the time over the escape
of couple of villains from the
Jail, who had recently been cap
tured and were waiting trial for
murder. / don't believe a tougher
pair of rascals were ever found in
Alabama than Ruell Victor and
Dennis Lorne. They had killed
as many a. half-a dozen persons,
to say nothing of other crimes
without number of which they
we're guilty
you may guess their escape
created no little disturbance, and
they were more dreaded than
ever
The authorities did their best
to recapture them, but no trace of
the desperadoes could be found,
and the day We left port three
thousand dollars reward was
offered for them, ono half the sum
for either Of them
well, we had o fair wind for a
start, and ran down the bay,
standing off between Dauphin and
and the Point about ak
About that time l had occasion
to 60 into the fore.peak to get
some rope yarn. Now we had no
forecastle parted off from)the hold,
as there was room enough for all
in the cabin, and we had this stow
away in between the bows, where
We chucked away our old trum-
perry
Il was hard At work unlaying a
piece Of rope from the yards,
when l thought I heard q noise
among the boxes in tho hold.
Listening a moment, with my ear
close to the bulkhead, I knew
some Que WAS in there. As the
captain and Allen were above, l
wondered who it could be, and
kept perfectly still, to sec if l
could find out
Il was not kept in suspense
long, for pretty soon I heard =
man speak, and then another
answered him.
you may believe I was all atten-
ton then, and soon learned that
our passengers were none others
than Ruell Victor and Dennis
Lorne,...he desperadoes who had es-
capped from the Mobile JAIL
From what had been said, I
found that they had crawled into
the hold and slowed themselves
away so well that We had not seen
| them when we had finished load.
ing. They had got provisions
enough to live on q day or two,
and were planning to come up on
deck at night, overpowsr us and
put to sea. They were armed,
and, what frightened me most
(for you must remember I was
only boy, though nearly - large
a. / am now they had hired Ned
Allen to help them! This would
mako three against the captain
and myself
sAs they had been further aft
when l first came down, and were
getting back TO their old corner, ]
felt that they had not heard me,
20 l crcpt back to the deck ~
quietly a. possible
we were then leaving the
lighthouse out of sight and il
would soon be dark, so that l was
anxious to tell the captain what ]
had discovered.
As / came up from the fore.
peak l guess l must have looked
a little startled, though tried te
appear calm, for - / went aft be