Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1885-06-25


course. she was put into port at Grand
Caymen, on December H. at the request
OF Cortez. who left the bark after selling
his merchandise to Captain Pelletier for
$1,00. The vessel then sailed 10 Port -au-
Prince and began to unload her cargo.
The crew became drunk and mutinOus
and Binar. the refugee, demanded money
from Captain Peletier to pay his pas
sage to the Spanish Main. His request
being refused. he denounced the captain
as pirate to the authorities. The
officer was lodged in Jail and q man
named CanO, from Certhagena. having
lad claim to the goods, the commander,
after the mockery of trial, was sen
fenced to death. This sentence was
commuted to five years Imprisonment,
three of which he served, subjected to
grrat indignities and cruelties. He was
s1ackled and chained to an iron bar In
dungeon without air or light and reek-
ing with filth and vermin. At one time
no was tied TO tree, and soldiers were
stationed in front of him with loaded
muskets. AT another time a convict
condemned to death was confined in his
cell, and Pelletier was warne! by a
Catholic priest not to eat soup ON GER
tain day. He needed the advice, but his
cell mate greedily disposed of the soup
and died in three hours from the poison.
Louis Legallin, a boy from the bark who
refused to testify against his CAPTAIN.
was dragged through the streets by the
mob and had his brains crushed out.
In the meantime it had been reported
in the United States that the captain
had been duly executed, and his wife
and mother OF his three children. after
an interval of year, was married gain,
This union Captain Pelletier suffered to
remain undsturbed upon his return to
this country after being liberated
through the assistance of the French
and English Ministers, who landed SO
marines and sailors and demanded his
release on November H., 1868. On his
arrival in Washington. CaptajR Pelle-
tier laid his case before Secretary Seward
and Congress, and Justice William
Strong was chosen as arbitrator in the
claim for $2,500,O00 damages against the
llsytien Government, and after drag
ging along for over seventeen years A.
A. jackson, OF Washington, has brought
the suit to a decision which is expected
this week.. Captain Pelletier's enter
prising and energetic nature led him all
over North and South America in search
OF fields for the promotion Of his patent
devices, including composite pavement
of which the sidewalk arouUl the Post
Office is composed. He ran the telegraph
lines on the Isthmus of Panama. In
Spain he was on terms of social init
macy with Queen Christina and General
Flores, and in addition to assisting Gen.
eral Garabaldi in his candle making en-
terprise on Staten Island he gave him
$1,000 when he returned to Italy.
In personal appearance Captain Pei
letter was OF medium height of dark
complexion and robust frame. He was
exceptionally generous with his money
At the Ast0r House, where he had made
his home when in this city for thirty
years, there are many expressions of re-
greet at his death. During the last two
months he was engaged with Captain.
General Revue ltas, Of the Mexican Army
now in this city, in projecting plans for
the improvement Of Mexico. His body
awaits the disposition of his children
lie leaves In addition to his wife. whose
second husband is still living, two sons
one of whom lives in Havana, and the
other in Arizona, and a daughter, Sister
M. ignatius of the Order of Mercy al
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