The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-03-22
EBENSBURG, PA. FRIDAY. MARCH %.
..suppose we refuse to go?'

SUPPOSE We IC4tASc W BO.
Then your blood be upon your own
headI Rather than surrender the
schooner we'll burn her and you with
heri I'll give you half an hour to
think it over"
Wedidn't want two minutes. Wewere
determined not only not TO leave the
schooner, but to recapture her. We
expected to be attacked first by the
slkyliglt, but this was a small affair,
and did not command but a port ion of
the cabin. And, as we afterward as
certained, the only firearm among the
mutineers was n .double-barreled pis-
tol, which had already been dis
charged, and could not be reloaded for
want OF ammunition. They would also
batter. in the doors of the companion,
but we hoped to hold them at the bar
ricade. They could not come at US by
way Of the hold, for that was full.
We got Il bite to eat from the pan
try. had glass of wine, and by that
time were hailed for our answer. The
captain replied that we would not 90,
and defied them TO do their worst.
We heard them moving softly about,
and at her own request jess was al
lowed TO pull away J. portion of the
barricade and creep up the stairs tC
is'en, while the captain and L stood
with our guns ready to repulse any at
tack by the skylight- Jess was return
ing to report when a battering ram
drove in the doors hardly an arms
length away, and the men who had
welded the spar raised "A yell ut sight
of her. Not one person in ten thou
sand, man or woman, would have done
as she did. Instead of springing over
the barricade, she levcled her revolver
and shot one of the men, the leader OF
the mutiny, through the head as he
stood above her. As he throw up his
arms and fell she shouted to Us to come
up. rushed up the stairs, and We
heard her fire twice more before We
got over the barricade.
When we got on deck no one but
Jess was TO be seen erect Two dead
men and one wounded unto death
were lying on the deck, and the other
three had fled to the fo'castle. Two
minutes later they We're begging for
their lives, aud they crawled like ours
rs they came up to be bound. jess
had killed two of the new men and
mortally wounded the negro cook. and
the mutiny had been put down and
the craft reta1cn before you could
count q hundred. Her movements
had been so swift and her aim was SO
fortunate that every thing had TO go
before her. 5-.f-r
1t would have made your hair
stand up to listen to the confessions
of those rascals- The seizure of the
schooner had long been contemplated,
and a part of the plan was to get hold
of the girl Had we accepted the offer
Of the boat we would have been
killed as soon as we reached the deck
The leader was an ex-convict named
Ike Reese, and he proposed to turn
the craft into a regular pirate,
strengthening his crew from such
small craft as he might overhaul The
negro died within an hour. and we
hove the three bodies overheard with
out ceremony During the forenoon
VIC worked the schooner TO the east.
and about noon got a couple of hands
from an English merchantmen and
put into Melbourne to report and de-
liver up our prisoners. One was
hanged for the crime, but one died be-
fore the trial and the other escaped
and was shot dead by the officers in
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