Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-03-17
THE CATERER CRUELTY CASE.

Captain Sparks, of the ship Gstherer,
charged with cruelty to hin crow, hae been
released from the San Francisco Jail on a
500. 600 bail bond. He denies in toto all
the acts of cruelty. Mate Curtis denies
all the cruel acts charged to him, and, in
turn, says mate Watts was guilty of all
the cruelty. He says seaman Hanson did
not commit suicide, but was knocked off
the yard by the tapping of sail. A LIFE
buoy was thrown to him, and boat
lowered, and a search made for the man,
but without avail. Carl Rasmussen, aged
II, another of the crew, has been found.
He is a bright, likely looking boy, with an
honest face, whose general appearance and
demeanor would impress one with belief
in the good qualities of his heart and head
He shipped at Antwerp as an able bodied
seaman. He understood little or no Eng
lish, and this made him special subjest
of diabolical persecution by the Captain
and the first aid second mates. A slight
Misrepresentation Of an order given in a
language he did not understand brought a
blow. When the vessel was parting from
the tugboat that towed her out Of the har-
Dor at Antwerp, Rasmussen says he was
assisting at hauling in the hawser, when
the mate struck him terrible blow in the
eye to make him pull harder. Blows
aud bad treatment became daily more
familiar, until the ship got round Cape
Horn into the Pacific, when Rasmussen
says not day passed but he had
some experience of the brutality of those
officers. He says he was beaten more than
any one else of the crew, because of his
meager knowledge of the English language
Both Rasmussen and the third mate re-
peated the description of the manner in
which the Irishman Muldoon was swung
up to the mizzen- stay with his head down
until he was black in the face. The boy
Rasmussen was driven to desperation by
the cruelties he was subjected to, and at
tempted to escape the tiendishness of his
prosecutors by throwing himself overheard,
but was prevented by Driscoll, the third
mate. Rasmussen was kept a prisoner on
the Gatherer for ten days after arriving at
Wilmington. When he finally got away
from the vessel, he shipped on schooner
at that port and went to Big River, and
came from thence hither, arriving four
days ago. Here he reported to the Danish
Consul, and was sent by him to the United
States Marshal.
DEMOCRATIC STATE COMMEMORATIVE
Democratic State Central Committee We'd
nesday afternoon held an executive session
at San Francisco. It was decided to hold
the coming State Convention on the Goth
OF June next, at San Jose, the number Of
delegates to be $50, the apportionment be-
ing based upon the votes cast for Hancock
and English at the last Presidential cleo
ton, and to be one from each county at
large one for each 200 voters, aud one for
each fractional hundred over. The follow.
ing is the number apportioned to each
county Alameda 20, Alpine L, Amador
s. Butte 10, Calaveras l. Colusa 9, Contra
Costa 6, Del Norte 2, Ell Dorado 8, Fresno
7, Humboldt 5, Inyo 2, Kern 4, Lake 4,
Lassen 8. Los Angeles Is, Marin 4, Mari
posa 4, Mendocino s, MERGED 5, Modoc 3,
Mono 5, Monterey 7, Napa 6, Nevada IL,
Placer S, Plumas 4, Sacramento 10, San
Beni.o 4, San Diego 4, San Francisco los,
San Joaquin Is, San Luis Obispo 5, San
Mateo 5, San Bernardino 4, Santa Barbara
5, Santa Clara Is, Santa Cruz 7, Shasta .,
Sierra 3, Siskiyou 6, Solano ii, Sonoma IA,
Stanislaus S, Suffer 4, Tehama 6, Trinity
3, Tulare S, Tuolumne 6, Ventura 4, lolo
s and Yuba 7. 1t was decided that the
test for all primaries should be having
voted for the Democratic nominees, Han
cock and English. The nomination of all
Congressman at large was placed IN the
hands of the State Convention. The DIFF
ferent delegates from the various Con-
gressional Districts were ordered to nomi-t
nate Congressman to represent those
districts.