The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-19
From the Ne,o York Sur.

Into ID6f hearts.
From the NeIo York Sur.
The steamship Erin came up to her pier
at the foot of Houston street at o'clock
Yesterday afternoon with two seamen armed
with navy revolvers on guard at the door
of her little deckhouse. In the house was a
biz seaman manacled hand and foot in
double irons. A week before he had crept
ont of his bunk in the lower forecastle and
stabbed to the heart with his broad bladed
sheath knife two of his sleeping shipmates.
A crowd of men and boys followed him as
two policemen marched him, with the irons
still on his wrists, to the Charles street sta
ton house.
The Erin carried cargo only. She left
London on June 20. and found her crew
three men short by desertiOn when she got
to Gravesend. At Grave END she shipped
three men, all rated as able seamen, one of
them, Patrick Kelly, strapping great
Irshman, who proved to be the biggest and
strongest man in the ship. He was 6 feet
tall road-shouldered, black haired and
black-eyed, and had thick black beard
growing all over his red face. He had a
savage temper, too, and did not get on well
with his mates. The latter say tuat he was
picking a quarrel all the while. He had
never known any of the men aboard before
He was put in the starboard watch with
John Parry, John Whitaker. Jonn Chap
man and Robert Harris.
According to the mans story, one day
about week out, when the watch were all
on the topgalant forecastle, an order was
given to set the main trysail. The order in
terfered with something which Chapman
was doing at the time, and he swore. Kelly
thought Chapman was swearing at him.
Chapman said he was not
"You Lien cried Kelly. Chapman re-
torted likewise, and the men growled until
an officer shut them up. At this time
Kelly is said to have warned Chapman
never to NEEDLE with him again or he
would be dead man. Parry put in a word
for Chapman, and got a warning too for
himself. There was bad blood between the
men from this time on, and they growled
and spat at each other. On Sunday, July
8, Kelly and Chapman had row at the
mess table.
Jack, y said Kelly, with an oath, don't
force me too far. I'll do you up as sure as
Pm Twin man"
Kelly's bunk in the forecastle was above
Parry's, and Chapmans was next to Parry's
on the lower tier On Monday morning of
last week Whitaker, who had bunk next
Kelly's, was awakened by a scream and
dreadful voice calling: "Oh, G)d!' He
Chapman's berth. Kelly had pulleG the
sleeping man outward and downward by
the throat until his head hung over the edge
of the bunk, the face looking upward.
Kelly had his knee pressed on Chapman's
shoulder and his left hand clenched on
Chapmans throat. His right hand grasped
sheath knife, which he had just driven up
to the hilt IN Chapman's breast. Whit
taker looked on too Mortified to move He
w al ~ ray ba tytnifa md oh
cautiously around. The blood gurged in
Chapmans throat and his body writhed
Kelly grasped the body and tried to hold it
still
As he did so, Parry in the adjoining bunk
woke up and cried: Hello, what's the
matterF'
Whitaker says that he tried to cry, too,
but that his voice was gone
With bound Kelly was at Parry's bunk
and had seized the startled man by the
throat. He flung his whole weight upon
Parry, and, still clenching the latter's
throat, jemmed his body double SO that
Lis bones snapped. Then he jerked Parry
20 the side of the bunk and got him face
upward and head downward, as ne had had
Chapman. He pulled the clothes from
Parry's breast, Parry all the while strug-
Cling violently and trying to catch Kelly
with bis arms. But the giant pinioned
Parry's right shoulder with his knee and
with his left hand seized Parry's left arm.
Then he rlised his sheath knife.
Help" cried Parry.
Whitaker found his voice at last and
yelled "Murderm "Murder!" with all his
lungs. This awoke Harris, who started up
and cried Murder" before mis- eyes were
fairly open.
o. you, die" cried Kelly, and
he dug the knife into Parry's breast.
Whitaker jumped out of his berth and
ran across the floor so as to get the mess
table between himself and Kelly. Harris
jumped out too, and the men stood await
ing what they felt sure would be Kellys
attack. But Kelly did not modest them
lie stepped to Chapman's bunk and pulled
out of it Chapman's coat Upon this he
wiped his bloody sheath knife dry. As he
did 50 seven bells struck-7:3 80 o'clock a. M
Kelly, with his knife in his hand, clam
bered up the forecastle scuttle and the com
tanion ladder, and as he did so, he met sea
man Hunt coming down to get the men up
for breakfast. He passed Hunt without a
word made the deck, aud marched up to
Chief Officer Easton, who was in command
and on the bridge.
There's two men been stabbed in the
torecastle," he said, land here's the knife
hat did it,"
Hunt had gained the forecastle, after a
stupeted .ook ut the bodies of Chapman and
AIRY, fusned DGck on the deck with Harris
after Kelly. The men told Chief Officer
Easton what had occurred, and at his or
qers they seized Kelly and ironed him.
nelly made no resistance. In the forecastle
WHITAKER crept over to the bodies Of Parry
and Chapman and put his hand on their
hearts. The knife had sunk into Parry's
heart, and he was quite dead. There was
slight huttering Of Chapnan's heart as
whitaker put his hand above it, but in a
IN, ment twas still. Their blood was every
where.
Capt Tyson ordered the forecastle cleaned,
ana Whitaker and others Of the crew got
palms and needles. sewcd the bodies up in
Lammocks, aud weighted the hammocks.
AT noon the same day the bodies were buried
II the sea-
Tho heaviest irons aboard we're put upon
Kelly, and be was locked up in the aft house
o.. deck, with two men to guard him day
ana night. He kept silence for the most
par, and only upon one occasion talked TO
MS guards about his crime.
Those who dance, he said, must pay
the piper
Policemen Brogan aud Reilly took Kelly
10 the Charles street station whom the Erin
was dorked, while Capt. Tyson went TO
make his usual rep jrti ~ the custom house,
,Ae british consJps, and his owners. Kelly,
10y the ADVICE Of Capt. Copeland, declined
70 aay anything.
O., rye nothing TO say, anyway" he SAID;
let tho law take its course
~ answer 10 the usual questions he said