Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1886-08-04
LOCKED UP FOR MUTINY.
The Crew of the John K
SOuther of Bangor.

Refuse 10 Work the ship, and Arc Put In
Irons for Nincty-Two Hours.--Con-
nic,ing Statements Made by the Cnp-
tain and his Men.
Five sailors on the schooner j, K. Southcr
7 lom Bangor, Me-, mutinied while at anchor
near Camden, Penobscot river, and demand
cd that the days work should end with tho
hcaymg of the anchor, They wero
locked UP for tho rest of tn, eight
days voyage, and the schooner was
worked By tho captain, two mates and tho
cook.
The schooner arrived at Philadelphia on
the . til, flying u signal Of distress and po,
lice tug StokcIy went to her assistance, anu
tool; the men or, put them in irons. and
carried them to The United States commits
81 nors Office. Captain James W. Bolano
the owner of the schooner told tho follow
ing story; ION July - We sailed from Cam
den, Me, at 3 O'Clock p, m. Two hours
lacr he crew, which consisted OF male,
second mate, cool; and five seamcn, we're or
deere to clean up the ship. The five men,
wh,sc names are Carl Ferdinand Berg,
Charles Augu,t Anderson (Swedes), Joseph
Herd ne, Antona Kaiser Gormans), and
Theodore BunSlcr (Norwcgin) refused to do
the work They threatened my life I'M es'
allowed them to do as they liked. again
ordered them TO work, Out the NUT nee's
went in n body TO tho torccaste, when
We turned the key on them, and
since that tine until noon
to-day those five men we're confined in the
forecost,c. aud were fed on br, ad and water
The mate, second mate, cook and myself
worked he schooner from Cam en-, Me, to
Philadelphia. Three times we had to heave
the 800 pound anchor, the work OF a half a
dom mon. 1t was hard work, and that is
WHY we were so energetic in sigma ling the
police boat Ia,k'd the men three lines to
return to work, but they refuS d, so kept
them there, and IL hungry lot of men they
must be-
The mems statement does not agrle with
thaG of the captain Through the bars of the
door 20 the lookup they told Iheir story
"lIungr is n, name for il" sail Joseph
HcNin'. who says he has wife and child at
Salem, Mass. 1--WE are nearly starved 1t
was because we wera hungry that wer, fu ed
TO wash down the Il 'ciS and do lot of other
work. 1t was o'clock, and we had been
hard ut work from in the morn ng. We
told the captain that we were
hungry, and asked that we be given our
supper cfuro Icing required to perform un.
nccr sary labor. lie refused, and we refused
to work. He wanted us to keep anchor
watch at o'clock, but we said not until he
fed u, At O'Clock the next morning, the an
chor was weigh and two hours later we
went into the forccastlc hungry. The cap
tain turned the KY on us and III that hole h )
lap us unit the police cam" aboard today
We hal nothing to eat for twenty-s ven
hour-, and then the captain gave each of us
ships biscuit, Fiity-tlrec hours after we
were locked upwe got another biscuit and
some water Nineteen hours later the captain
gave us another biscuit. We had h d
nothing but three biscuits like these SHOW
ing n fiat round cracker about threa inches
in diamctcr) for nincty-two hours. They
keptus on three biscuits every day until
tn last two days, when they gave us a
quantity of corn-moll muSh for dinner We
are nearly dead with hunger
Commissioner ElmundS heard both sides
Of the cas- and d cidel that the crews Of
fence was a very serious one. He commit
ted them all to Moyam9n,in prison III default
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