Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-11-28
rrssr OF rar cnALLKxGEE CASES.
SECOND DAT.

SECOND DAT.
NKw TACOMA, Monday, Nov. "a.
C.. f. Smith, recalled, testided-After
being chained, Conway Was first TO IN
chain me and pat handouts on me. de
ordered me amidships on the main
hatch. Invent there and laid down.
Mr.. Conway came and said: stand
NO. said, III amt able" Remained
there all the afternoon. ! was again
made fast; don't remember BY whom,
but either by Mr.. Conway on Mr.. Ben
nett. had q difficulty with Mr.. Con-
way four or five weeks before getting
into New Tacoma. Mr.. Conway and
Mr.. Bennett came 20 my bunk and sad;
"Come out" / said, II can't" Mr..
Conway took me by the throat and
choked me; he then took ne by the left
leg: which was very sore, and pulled me
out; then grabbed me by the shirt, which
tore in two and came of. Mr.. Conway
and Mr.. Bennett together took the
chains of and sent me aInidships.
sent to Capt. Mumford, who came to
where vas. said 70 him: was sick
last night. Mr.. Conway has pulled me
out and tore nv shirt of. The Captain
said: SERVES you right; why didn't
Won come out when the mate called
youT' | said: II was not able"
was on deck half an hour before the
CAPTAIN came to where was. forgot
to relate one difficulty which took place
near the Horn. / had . slop bucket In
nv room. II was left there several days
at a time without being emptied. The
first mate came along and said: There
is an awful stink here" l said, 1.-The
bucket has not been emptied for several
days" Mr.. Conway asked the second
mate Why it had not been emptied. The
second mate came forward and cursed
me and threatened to beat me for tell
ing Mr.. Conway. A month before
reaching Port Townsend the mate took
away tns bucket and told me to go to
the water closet from that on. One
day Mr.. Conway came and said: Have
you been to the water closet today!'
said, mo, nor was there yesterday.
either" He asksd why, and said that
every man should go once day at least.
answered: ~ can't get in" MIR.
Conway said: II will get key and
carry it myself, after this" Captain
Mumford came to sec me the first two
days was chained up. After that he
came once every day. One day he took
the chain of and ordered me amidships.
Mr.. Conway tried to make the handouts
fit me by closing them tighter, but they
were too large. After turning them
around and finding them still not salts
factory, he said: "You are the damned
est nuisance in the world. / have a
notion to break your arm" and taking
my wrist across his knee no pressed
down ON il. One day was working on
deck with several other men. There
was schooner close to US and little
aft. Danielson was working with me.
Danielson wanted to jump overheard.
Mr.. Conway said: III you jump over
board I'll shove this harpo0n through
you"
The cross examination Of Smith, con-
Quoted by j. G. Haines, up to this hour,
y. M, has brought out, substantially,
the following:
Have been to sea in German, English,
Norwegian, Russian and American
ships; learned little English at school
when boy; picked up writing after go
ing to sea in an English ship; the first
American vessel sailed in was in 1872,
\ schooner, out Of New York have for
gotten her name was on her few
weeks next English or American ship
was New York full-rigger, in 1880, the
Sir Robert Peel, Captain Stetson l
shipped before the mast s.; the next
American vessel was the Joseph Baker,
from Bangor.
Witness named several other small
vessels, and finally shipped on the
Challenger, about the 9th of April, 1882.
He had the gleet on the Challenger a
short time after leaving Philadelphia.
Did not know what caused it unless 1t
was bad cold; l told tho Captain about
1t two weeks after leaving port !; the
Captain gave me some medicine; used
little of it and threw tho balance over
board the disease got we'll Of its own
accord IN about three months got the
paper to keep the log on (soyeral sheetsl
Ok the boy on ship while l was third
mate did not write word or tell any
one my idea Of keeping log until
was disrated and sent into the fore
castle; talked it over every night with
the men on my watch, that Is, the mon
ON the port watch told some Of them
(the mem ON the other watch, but not
all Of them, about it; for about ten days
the ship was without any third mate
after was disrated and before Herbert
WAS appointe' ; whenever a man came
in and told about being licked put it
down in the log in his presence put
down who was licked. who did it, what
it was done with, whereabouts on his
body he was struck, and how many
times he was struck, and the date on
which 1t occurred; most Of the entries in
the log book were against Conway and
Bennett; remember Of putting Third
Mate Herbert down once; don't know
whether / put him down more than
once or not; one night, while at the
wheel, told Conway that had once
fell from between decks and struck my
head against the keclson; Conway struck
me twice. that day In the same place;
stopped keeping log about tho 10Th or
18th Of June; one bono in my arm was
broken about the 18th of June; told Mr..
Conway. while l was in irons, that my
arm was hurt; he looked at il and said,
THAT arm is hurt;" the only thing that
il still the matter with me is weakness
in the small Of my back, caused by the
blows ! received the day was triced up;
l cannot, TO this day, lie on my back;
sometimes il il 30 painful that cannot
lie on my aide either.