Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-03-01

then Maquire came back with the good
news that Father McCabe had arranged fol-
oHeillys passage on another New Bedford
whaler, the Gazelle, Captain Clifford. But
Mcguire also brought an uuwelcome travel
Ing companion in the person Of q criminal
convict q Martin Bowman, . ticketof
leave man, and q Of the worst character
In the colony, Bowman had discovered the
means of OReilly's escape, and had threat
ened to put the police on the track unless
he was taken of too:
That night we slept little, some one al
ways keeping an eve on Bowman. We
were up at daybresk: and soon after we
were AHoat. We pulled straight out toward
the headlsnd, rs Captain Clifford had in
stracted. By moo we saw the two whale.
ships coming along withs fine breeze. To.
ward evening We heard q hail, and some
body shouted my name, and cried out,
Come on boardP' We were all oyerjoyed.
We pulled alongside, and / wa helped out
OF the boat by the strong arms of Henry
Hathaway, the second mate. Captain Git.
ford made me welcome, and gave me q
place in the cabin. Martin Bowman, the
escaped criminal, was sent forward among
the crew.
Six months sfterward, when the Gazelle
touched at Roderique, an English island in
the Indian ocean, the Governor came on
board, searching for IAN escaped convict
from Australia, a black-haired man." | was
standing with Mr.. Hussy, the mate, when
the Governor made the demand. Mr.. Hus-
sey said that N such person was on board.
The Governor answered that he had in
formation that a man had escaped on the
Gazelle. Mr.. Hussey feared that they might
seize the ship, so be said that q man ofthat
description, who had come on board of the
coast Of Australia might be the person. he
called Bowman, whom every one On board
detested, and he was pat in irons and taken
ashore. We knew that he would tell the
whole story (the wonder is that be did not
do it then; but he wished to make terms
for his own releaSs). That night the officers
of the Gazell threw overheard the grind
stone, with my hat, while l lay hid in, the
Captains cabin. A cry Of Man over
board was raised, a boat was lowered, and
the hat picked up. There were on board
some English ~ex-convicts who had shipped
IA BIO ouO NuNoO OuiN "1AeSN W. .
chance to have me retaken. But one Of
them utterly deceived by the officers
strategy, declared he saw me sink where my
hat was picked up. When the Governor
came on board next day to demand his
prisoner the flag was at half mast, and the
officers sorrowfully told him that the nan he
probably wanted had jumped overheard in
the night and was drowned. His policemen
went among the crew and learned the same
news. Two days later the Gazelle sailed
from Roderique, and l came on deck much
to the amazemsnt OF the crew."
That ended Mr.. O'Reilly's adventures.
OFF the Cape Of Good Hope Capt. Clifford
handed him thirteen soYereigns, all the
money he had, and transferred him to the
American ship Sapphire. This ship took
him to Liverpool, where he was provided
with q secure hiding place until a passage
was secured for him on the Bath ship Bonn,
bay, which landed him in Philadelphia on
November %, 1869, nine months after he
made his first break for the Australian
hush