St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-12-17
DEFoE oUrDoNE.
A Remarkable Tale Of Adventure and
Hardship by Tort Of Robinson Crusoe.
New York sun

marks OF priyatiOn and suffering, entered
the Office OF the Sun yesterday and told this
wonderful story:
''My name is Henry stoddard. was born
in Charleston, S. c., on October 3, 1854, and
was educated at 81. Mungo's academy. Ny
father. Henry L. Stoddard, was a sea captain
and when / last saw him he was United
States Shipping com missioner at that port.
had brother George. who was a pilot
first went 10 sea in 1870 on a pilot boat. aud
then made-three trips TO the West Indies as
a seaman. After that 1 worked in the Liy-
erpoOl trade from New York.
''In the fan Of 1877 shipped the the ship
Rhine al New York aud went TO London.
There we heard that pay was good
at Cardiff, and three Of US
paid our passage there from Lon
don. We found there the ship Cultivator,
which wanted 4 crew. She was from Salem,
Mass, aud was loading with coal for Callao,
Peru. Her captain was James Todd, who
was known as the Terror Of the Pacific, from
his career on the ship Witch OF the Wave Of
/ Boston.
todd found II hard 10 get crew, and be
was obliged TO send to Liverpool for men.
/ He offered to ship me as second mate, and
thought / would have no trouble, as i knew
my business very well. We sailed in Dc
4 tober, End we had not been out very long
before Capt. Todd began to treat his men
with the greatest cruelty, and would knock a
man down with Delaying pin for the
slightest offence. He did not modest me,
and got along very well until we reached
/ the latitude of Valparaiso, in the Pacific
ocean. A sailor, an old man, made
some mistake in steering, and Capt.
Todd told me to knock him down.
! / said / was an officer, aud not
engaged for such work This enraged
the captain and be had me put in irons and
confined in the forepeak. He kept me there
for twenty-one DAYS until we reached Callao,
about Jana, 1873. had had two meals day,
two hard sea biscuits in the morning and one
buiscuit at night, and this fare reduced me 10
a skeleton. Whefthe captain visited me one
day / told him would complain 20 the Amer
lean consul at Callao, and in reply he kicked
out one Of my teeth.
SAT Callao / was removed from the vessel
at midnight and taken before the Peruvian
| intendente. 1 aftcrward learned that Capt.
/ Todd Was afraid OF the consul, and paid the
couldn't speak Spanish, but ] demanded,
! through an interpreter 20 be taken before
the American consul. The intendente re-
piled that had violated law ia a Peruvian
I harbor, and that / should receive Peruvian
| punishment He sentenced me TO serve
twelve months in the Peruvian navy, and /
was taken 10 the Casas Matas prison.
''There / was confined for nine months
with crowd Of murderers, thieves, and
political prisoners. There was no
discipline and no work, and the
prisoners did pretty mnch as they
pleased. There were three large rooms
and courtyard. The prisoners were smut
up at night in the rooms, but IN the day they
roamed around the yard, talking, gambling,
aud idling away the time. Among the pris-
oners were the captain, first and second
mates, engineer, and fourteen OF the crew
of the English ship Talisman. She had been
seized while bringing arms aud ammunition
10 the reyolutionisls under Pierola.
"For meals We got twice DAY black bread
and frijoles, kind Of beans, and the por-
tons were barely enough TO support life. At
night we slept on planks with a wooden
headrest. We got no clothing, and / was
almost entirely naked. l made trousers out
Of a sheet.
''The place was full OF the most desperate
characters, and murders In the prison were
common. The first mate Of the Talisman
was young Englshman named James Sib-
! ley, who was said 10 be the son of a baronet
i was near him one day when he had q
| quarrel with gambler named Viteri. Viteri
suddenly threw his manta, or cloak, over
Sibey's head, and, and while he was thus
blindfoded, cut his throat from ear to ear.
'There was a sailor there named Tim
Kelly, of New York, who had deserted his
ship, the Irwell, of London. Afthr eating
dinner every one would hurry 10 the pump
10 wash his hands. While doing this Kelly
got into a fight with Chinaman. The China
man drew a knife and Kelly knocked him
down and bit of his nose. The guards came
and drove all tine prisoners out OF the yard
except Kelly. l stood against the bars Of
the prison and saw what happened. The
patrol came out on the walls with their guns.
Kelly crouched down behind the pump, but
they fired at him from all sides until they
had killed him.
Lloyd Harrison, an Englishman, crazed
by starvation, grabbed at a pile Of money
that was before some gamblers who were
playing monte. A gambler Greek joel drew
his knife and actually disembowelled Harri-
son. No attention whatever WIS paid TO these
murders.
1.-The crew of the Talisman were released
after being there fourteen months: but the
| captain, second mate and engineer were SEN
fenced to thirty-fve years Imprisonment,
and are there vet
"When chad been in prison nine months
the captain and lieutenant OF the American
man-of-war Richmond came TO visit the
prison. Fearing that we would appeal TO
them, the guards took the five Americans
who were in prison, put shaekles on US, aud
confined US in a black hole called Ia bdrd.
The other Americans beside myself were
James Clark, aged about 40 years, Of New
York; Frank Hattou, aged 29, of Rhode Is
land, from Che ship Messenger; George Kane,
of Boston, aged 3d. and Lloyd Evarts, aged
IS, Of Gardiner, Ne. These are the ages they
would be at this time. All these men are
still in the Casas Matas
''Twenty-fOur hours after we had been put
in Ia bdra Clark and were taken out, put In
a boat, and placed on board the Peruvian
| ironclad La Independence, commanded
by an Irish-Peruvian, Capt More. We
were received bv a file OF marines, aud
Capt. More appointed US to duty Clark and
protested that we were American citizens,
and we refused TO work. We were sent tor
ward, and the vessel steamed up 10 Mollendo,
which is the seaport Of Arequipa, the
ancient capital of Peru. The next morn
ing Clark and / were brought on deck.
They told met watch what was done TO
Clark. A line was tied around his waist and
run TO a block at the end of the yardarm.
He was pulled up to the end OF the yardarm
and dropped into the sea three times. Each
time they asked If be would work, but be was
too stunned TO answer. He was insensible,
aud blood was coming from his mouth and
nose when they took him aboard.
~ might have given in, but the chief en-
| pineer. q Scnichman named Rrnce sfond