Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-03-27
MARINE MUTINY.
Tie Strike OF the Crew OF the Tom
DodsWorth.
Five Men Arrested for kutiny-They Claim
to Have Been 0Yerworked and Dis
eliminated Against.

Yesterday morning the REGISTER con-
tanned brief telegram announcing the ar
rest Of five men for mutiny on the steamer
Tom Doisworth. Additional particulars
are given by the Pittsburgh papers rs fol-
lows: Mutiny on the high seas OF the
Ohio Valley is rather unique charge to
figure on the records of the United States
Court here. Nevertheless five sturdy ma
riners were towed into the Central Station
last evening under arrest for this crime on
the water. The names OF the alleged
mutineers are William Eeelan, Tony
Richards, Albert Richardson, Ed Meir and
John Wilson, and they constituted the for
ard crew of the good steamboat Tom Dods-
worth. The information against them was
made before United States Commissioner
McCandless by A. 5. Robinson, one Of the
pilots OF the craft. He left the boat at
Rochester yesterday and came up TO the
city during the afternoon by train and ap-
petrtd before the United States Commits
siC ntr as stated. The information against
the crew recited that they we're seaman
who had been lawfully engaged as mariners
on toard'the steamer Tom Dodsworth, the
aid steamer then navigating the ONO
river, being at a point on the said river
near Rochester, in the said United States
district. On March 18th they did discbey
q lawful command OF the master and mate
Of the said steamer or vessel, refusing to
do work as ordered By the said master and
ma e."
After the making of the charge Deputy
Msrshals Cam pbell and Hilton, accompan-
led by Lieutenant Delehanty and three
officers OF the police force, went over to the
>onth Side at the landing just below the
Clinton iron mill, where they bad been
rotifi.d By telegram that the boat would
land. About seven O'Clock last evening
the Tom Dodsworth steamed into port and
dropped her tow OF twelve empty barges
and two fuel flats at the designated land.
ing. They did not stop long enough for
the officers to board her, however, but start.
ed scross the stream to the Pittsburg wharf.
The officers jumped into q half sunken
yawl and rowed across the river at lively
rate, fearing that the crew had obtained
possession of the vessel and intended TO
ump of as soon as she landed. When
they got on board the boat their men were
in the cabin waiting for the captain to pay
them of. They were placed under arrest
with ut making any resistance and taken
to the Central station.
A Times reporter interviewed the al.
legged mutineers last night, and one OF
their number, John Wilson, gave the fol
lowing version of the difficulty: I'VE are
the fJ'srd watch Of the Dodsworlh and we
had stood our watch and came up in the
cabin for dinner. The Captain ordered US
TO 60 down and carry coal in three bushel
b. xes from the empty bsrges at the head
OF the tow back to the BOAT. He was COM
ing back on the cheap plan, ana wanted us
to scrspe up the waste in the empties.
We had carried coal all through our watch
,Dn the aft watch had not been ordered to
assist us. We considered it dangerous to
our lives TO carry this coal when the Cap.
tain could hive stopped at coal
ing p9rt-Shippensport-and coaled the
boIt IS all captains do. We had
Ue II al work twelve hours, and had been
overworked all through the watch, work
ing eighteen and twenty-four hours out OF
he twenty-four. Our reason for refusing
work during the aft watch was that the
boat vss not in danger, and we were tired
out and afraid that We would endanger our
lives by CRYING that waste coal from the
forward barges back to the boat. The Cap.
tain was going to put Us ashore at first, but
be concluded 10 bring US up to Pittsburgh
and have Us arrested. There is enough
coal on the boat now to run her for q day,
End be run past a cosling station" An
, fort was made to get Captain Robinson 8
story, but he could not be found last even.
ing, The mutineers will have hearing
BE- fore United States Commissioner Nc.
Csndless.