The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-06-19
WHEELING, WEST VA. MONDAY MORNING. JUNE 1882 .
was not known whether or not the police
authorities would investigate tho case, 4,

was not known Whether or not the police
authorities would investigate tho case, 4
A Brooklyn policeman strollea on board
tho Freeman Clark about $50 r. NJ. and got
reporter 10 write out for him brief Sb.
stract OF the story OF tho fight in order, the
policeman said, that he might get It first
TO headquarters. EF>ia M
Second Officer Lowry said "Itis probable
TINT tho mutineers intended TO carry their
murderous design into execution earlier
than they did. They were prevented from
doing 30 by tho Captain awakening and
asking me to take his dog out OF tho cabin.
The men did not then know at whR, mo.
inent l would return with the animal. II
tho murder had been committed ut mid.
first mate and probably myself would have
been killed. lsurpose the murdcrcrs were
running muck l5si ga(W. Rus
First officer Williams is about six feet In
hight, and his sunburnt race Is ornamented
with a heavy brown moustache. lie
smoked cigar while he narrated to IL
reporter his part In the airair. lie
showed mitch feeling when speaking Of the
Captain. lts
"The first intimation hal Of anything
being wrong" he said, twas being awuk.
ened by II noise, and seeing All Gee, tho
Malay Chinese steward, coming through the
door Of my room and brandishins his large
knife in one hand and ha,cltet in tie
other. llc aimed q blow at nc with tho
hatched, but it struck the low ceiling OF the
room, and glancing oil, cut away Il pirt OF
the curtain that hung before my bunk, ind
descending struck me side fiow on the
head. Had that blow Ind full swing Inc
ship would have been left without u nayi.
gator. The steward then struck at me with
Il knife, and although partly stunned by
the blow OF the hatchet, and scarcely yet
fully awake, | seized the Chnaman's arm,
and the point OF the knife entered the
side Of the vessel, one inch from my head.
! have no perfect recollection Of what oc.
Cured after that, except that Francisco
and the Chinaman at the bedside crap.
pling und struggling. T5 = 4 Y.
"a blow with the knife WIS warled off by
the Frencliman, and it cut through his
coat TINT hung upon the wall and buried
itself in IL beam. 1tumbled out OF bed
bleeding from the wound on the side OF
the head and from cut on the hand.
Then. it seemed, the infuriutcd steward
and the sailor fought their way out Of my
room TO the deck. | followed them out
md found pitched battle going on be.
tween the two Cinnamon and the French.
man and the second mate. The cook left
the Frcnchman, with whom he was then
struggling, when he s,tw tuc and rushed at
me, but the sailor who had by this time
procured MI axe, rs the cook turned,
struck him on the back OF tho neck and lie
tumbled down on the deck and expired in
five minutes. As he felt the steward was
struck by the carpenter with pump han.
die and dazetl and blinded. lie rushed at
Il seaman named johnson, who knocked
him down OH the deck with caps,an bar.
The two murderers fell and died within
ten feet OF each other.
During the terrible fight on deck, the
crew stood with their hands in their
pockets, afraid to rnsl, in and help their
mates. As it was, it was a tight struggle
between the two maddened China,nen and
three sailors. 1t did not last over two min.
utes."
The mate showed the reporter the scarrcd
wall and other evidences Of the fight in his
room. 1t is II small apartment, scarcely
large enough for two men TO be in.
United States Marshal Harlow, of Brook.
lyn, yesterday heard the statement Of
Thos. Lowry, the second mate, and decided
to make no arrests.