Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-02-07

enaul I'M ~ 81 ont and ioadd Avs
muskses, placed three cutiasses handy, and,
IN addition, each bad . revolver. We vorksd
IA ths dark bu. ne knew whers everything
"A 10 b found You might have looksd
fer tbs girl to break down. but thers was
nsvsr a sixn Of it Indeed, she expre.sd .
hope that the MN would not give in too SON.
and seemed TO desire an attack When Ne
had done al ne could. Ne as down and
waited for ths night to pass away.
The schooner reeled Of the miles as
lively pace for the next four hourA and
morning came without our having been d1s-
turbed Then sal was shortened, the craft
laid to. aud. q soon q ths msn bad bad
bite to eat, the lendsr summoned US with:
Below thersr'
We'll answered the captain
I'VE will give you another chance to leayA
You can have q boat, oars, sail, water and
grub, and no one shall hinder your going
Suppose we refus to gof'
Then your blood be upon your own head!
Rather than surrender the schooner wen
burn her and you with her, I'll give you half
an hour to think it over
We didn't want two minutes We were de
termined not only not to leave the schooner,
but to recapture her. We expected 10 be at
tackled frs, by the skyhght, but this was
small affair, end did not command but por-
ton Of the cabin And. Is We aftsrward
sscertained, the only drsarm among tbs
mu,ineers was a double barrsled pistol, which
had already been discharged, and could not
be reloaded for want Of ammunition They
would also batter in the doors Of the com
panion. but We hoped to hold them at the
barricada They could not come at us by
~ fha hoil for fhat full
We got q bite to eat from the pantry, had
a 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 portion Of the barricade
and creep up the stairs to listen, while the
captain and stood with our guns ready to
repulss any attack by the skyhght jess was
returning to report when . battering ram
drove in the doors hardly an arms length
away, and the men who had welded the spar
raised yell at sight Of her. Not one person in
ten thousand, man or woman, would have
done as she did. Instead Of springing over the
barricade, she leveled her revolver and shot
one of the men, the leader Of the mutiny,
through the head as he stood above her. As
be threw 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 ned to the fo'castls.
Two minutes Later they were begging for
their lives, and they crawled like ours as they
came up to be bound. jess had killed two Of
the new men and mortally wounded the negro
cook, and the mutiny bad been put down and
the craft retaken before you could count =
hundred Her movements had been 50 swift
and her aim was 50 fortunate that every
thing had to go before her.
1t would have made your hair stand up to
listen to the confessions Of those rascals The
seizure OF the schooner had long been con-
templated, and part Of the plan was to get
bold 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 riieht overhaul The negro died within
an hour and we hove the three bodies over
board without ceremony. During the fore
noon we worked the schooner to the east, and
about noon got couple hands from an Eng
lish merchantmen and put into Melbourne to
report end deliver 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 pursuit.
York San