The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-08-05
LOCKED UP FOR MUTINY.
The Crew of the John X
Souther of Bangor.

Refuse 10 Work the ship, and Are Put In
Irons for Ninety-Tw0 Hours.--Con-
fiicting Statements Made by the Cap
tain and his Men.
Five sailors ON the schooner J, X. Souther
from Bangor Me-, mutinied while at anchor
near Camden, Penobscot river, and demand
ed that tho days work should end with the
heavmg Of the anchor They were
locked up for the rest of tho eight
days voyage and the schooner was
worked by the captain, two mates and the
cook.
The schooner arrived at Philadelphia on
the 9th, flying signal OF distress, and pc,
lice tug Stokely went to her assistance, and
took the men Off, put them in irons. and
carried them to the United States commits
sicncr's Office. Captain James w. Bolano,
the owner of the schooner, told the follow
ing story: con July 10 we sailed from Cam
den, Me, at 8 O'Clock p, m. Two hours
later the crew, which consisted of mate,
second mate, cook and five seamen, were Or
derei to clean up the ship. The five mon,
whose names are Carl Ferdinand Berg,
Charles August Anderson (Swedes), Joseph
Heroine, Antona Kaiser (Germans), and
Theodore Bunster (Norwegian), refused to do
the work They threatened my life I'm ess |
allowed them TO do as they liked l again
ordered them to work. Out the NUT neers
went in a body 10 the forecastle, when
we turned the key on them, and
to-day those five men were confined in the
forecastle, and were fed on bread and water
The mate, second mate, cook and myself
worked tho schooner from Cam en-, Me-, to
Philadelphia. Three times we had to heave
the S00l- pound anchor, the work of half a
dozen men. 1t was hard work, and that is
why we were so energetic in sigma ling the
police boat asked the men three times to
return to work, but they refus d, so kept
them there and a hungry lot Of men they
must be.n
The mems statement does not agree with
that of the captain. Through the bars of the
door 10 the lookup they told their story:
Hunger is no name for it." said Joseph
Heroine. who says he has wife and child at
Salem, Mass. 1--WE are nearly alved. 1t
was because we were hungry that weUfused
to wash down the decks and do a lot of other
work. 1t was 6 o'clock, and we had been
hard at work from 5 in the morning We
told the captain that we were
hungry, and asked that we be given our
supper before being required to perform I'M
necessary labor. He refused, and we I, fused
to work. He wanted us TO keep anchor
watt h at s O'clock but we said not until he
fed IL, At o'clock the next morning, the an
chor was weigh and two hours later we
went into the forecaste hungry. The cap
tain turned the key on us and in that hole h,
kept us unit the police came aboard to-day.
We had nothing to eat for twentys'ven
hours, and then the captain gave each of us a
ships biscuit Fifty-three hours after we
were locked upwe got another biscuit and
some water. Nineteen hours later the captain
gave us another biscuit. We had had
nothing but three biscuits like these SHOW
ing a fiat round cracker about three inches
in diameter) for ninety-two hours. They
kept us on three buscults every day until
the last two days, when they gave us a
quantity of corn-meal mush for dinner. We
are nearly dead with hunger
Commissioner Edmunds heard both sides
of the case, and decided that the crews Of
fence was very serious one. He commit
ted them all to Moyamensin prison in default
of bal.