The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1883-07-29
A STRANGE STORY SWORN TO-
Thirty Nea Mako Oath n Court Of What
they Saw At str0mboli.


To THE EDITOR OF The SuN-Sir To those
whose minds are troubled with doubt As to
whether or not there 10 hell the following
from tho British Naval Chronicle. 1907. may
not be uninteresting:
%s ,r,,sa ~, 1 y. M"n.o,
ssSs 4sfs and
peny with the Sphinx wind N. VI to Lipnrl.
IMinG sshsy snehored In twelve f"homs water
Mag 1.-The four Captains and . Mr.. Bell
mme era . went on shore upon the Island Of
o'clock they called their men together to go on
board their respective ships. when. to their in
o, they saw the &
through the air toward them; one Of them APP
peared to DO dressed in black and the other in
sstsraa,icn; dsseendsd: amid !Ge burning
cano. Mt Stromboli. At their entrance there
ont VI most terribly. and Can't Burnnby cried out.
in bssE eIa.Rss Old Mr Beoty my q NEXT ext d"o;
r. MtSng s' do not know r The
down In their pockstbooks. or note 1t on some
th thing. what they had then n snrn; which wa:
Mr.. Boil and likewise entered In the different
ships journals ut tine same time.
Whom these four ships had taken in their
londings at Lipari. they sailed together for
London. When they arrived in the River
Thames at Gravesend. Capt. Burnaby's wife
came from London to him. He then sent for
tho othor three Captains TO come on board his
ship to congratulate him on his wife's arrival.
After they had thus met. a littlo conversation
passed between them in the cabin. when Mrs.
Burnaby suddenly started from her chair and
said to her husband Nv dear IN toll Won
some OF. aacws old MI Booty L dead" ,,, =,
before related, to her serious anrn.
When Mrs. Bnrnaby had returned to London
serious ey-nt-thnt her husbnnd had seen tho
soul ,oi Mr. Booty 90 into hel on the 9TH q
May as 10 IRE NJ .nrG mHmSn"Jd
who immediately took writ out OF the Kings
Bench Court in the penal sum Of 81 900 dam
tlon upon her late husbands soul CAPT, Bnr-
na6y gave bond to stand trial; and lie then
Westminster Hall summonses for oil the people
that had attended the late Mr., Booty in his last
sickness and NJ tn" time Of his denih also he
sexton ot the parish who buried him. and the
Clothes ha last wore before his sickness. h" had
taken core OF. to be introduced IN court ON the
When tho trial came on tho different persons.
WIN the black clothes. were brought into court
ana ,a,d were there met by Can't Bnr1oy the Cap;
tho four boats. with Nh Bell, who were all on
the snid Island Of Strnmholi aud saw the Two
nppnrition. descend into tho burning flames
on tn" nfor"snil IN dry "f May 'nSt. Ten Of
tho man Oi thu boats mad. nail that the but
10! n 81. the coat wn e" tho nrpnri,ion had On
WE'RE Ike the one present. haing mou'ds COW
crcd with black cloth, the same sort that the
coat WAS made ~. The different persons who
were with Mr.. Booty nj the time OF. his deccase
made oath that his death happened at o'clock
at noon on tho l4th Of May last. which was 10
the year 1856. The Jury then asked the Cap
tnin OF the sphinx IL he knew Mr.. Booty in his
lifetime. He answered that he never saw him
in his fetime. but plainly observed tho dress
tho Mpparitlon iad on. which Mr.. Burnaby -nd
w"s Mr.. Booty. IN company with another m
known.
The Judge then apnk~: Tho Lord grant
TINT may never zee such 4 sight as that, for I
think 4 impossible for thirty men to be mis-.
Tho Jury then gave their verdict against the |
widow Booty, plaintin to pay the costs Of the
court. The foregoing are facts, extracted from
thc Journal OF tho ship SphinX's voyage W the
Straits In the year 1886
J he above trial II now to Ia seen on the rec
or!- OF the Court Of tho Kings bench In West.
minister Hal The Mrs. Booty plaintiff against
Capt Burnaby, defendant.
These records are written on parchment In
Latin. In tho lawyers old text-hand writing
and are kept In . glass case In the Clerks Of
nee whore. for the sum Of one shilling thsy
may Do seen by all whose doubt or curiosiu
may induce them to 1t. W. A. II.