St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-12
BRIrAIN,s FLAG INsULTED.

TacOmans Violate All Law ana
Get Themselves Into Middle.
Special to the Gloha-
TACOMA, Wash, March 11.-Last Fri
dav Justice of the Peace Patrick issued
an attachment against the British slip
Craigend on complaint of deserving
sailors for wages due, and Constable
Sweaney placed Deputy Harrison Won
Bibber in charge of the vessel. Beyond
the refusal of Capt. Hamilton, of the
Craigend. to allow Won Bibber to sleep
with him, there mad been no trouble in
the ship until yesterday, when, after
hoisting the British flag. Capt. HamiI-
ton went up town to attend to some
business, leaving Edward Hamilton in
charge of the ship. with instructions to
move her up to the elevator and COM
mence loading her cargo, provided the
deputies would allow him to do so.
Hamilton attempted to move the vessel.
but Deputy Won BibbeT ordered him to
stop. In the name of the law. Hamilton
discharged his SleVedOreS and went
home. leaving Won BibbeT in command.
Hamilton soon returned with gang OF
men with the intention OF putting lining
in the ship. On seeing Hamilton and
his men Won Bibber became alarmed.
thinking they were about to seize the
ship. To prevent the supposed invad-
ers from boarding the Craigend, Won
Bibber hauled in The ladder extending
from the ships side to the dock. In
Jerking the ladder on deck, Won
Bibber struck Mate Mcdonald
on the leg, knocking him down ana
intiicting a painful injury to the limb.
Hamilton then placed a plank from the
dock 10 the rail anG started to 90
aboard but young Sweeney, one of the
COnStableS. VINO was assisting Won Bib
her to hold the ship down, grabbed the
inboard end of the plank and
SHOWED OFF THE RAIL.
throwing Hamilton into the water,
nearly thirty feet below. He was able
TO swim and managed to reach pile,
where he clung until hauled up on the
deck. 1t is not bit OF eXaggeTatOn to
say that had Hamilton been killed by
The fall the 'lOhgshOremen would have
had young Sweeney dangling from
rope from the yaUdarm in short order.
Hamilton was badly shaken up and so
lamed that he could hardly walk, and
is now under a doctors care. Quite
bit of excitement was created on ship
board by the officer, and the officers
evidently thought it would be warm
place to stay. Then they took the ships
compass, ChrOnOmeter and quadrant
and carried them ashore, leaving the
shin altogether. These articles were
British property, and had Capt Hamil-
ton himself wanted to bring them
ashore he could not have done so with
out the consent Of the custom officers.
Subsequently the deputy collector
seized the instruments, charging the
deputy constable with smuggling. Bal
four, Guthrie 81 Co., agents for the
Craigend. have telegraphed to the
British consul at Port Towns
be here tomorrow to inquire into the
difficulty. The sailors were shipped at
an European port for a tWO-years'
cruise. and the ships articles provide
that their wages shall be paid on their
return to Liverpool. When the Craigend
arrived here the crew deserted and de-
manded their pay, which the captain,
under advice of the British consul. de-
clined to give. They then sued him in a
Justices court, and that mighty official
at once put an officer in charge of the
vessel, fOTbidding the captain to leave
port. As the case now stands the Brit
ish flag has been insulted. The ship is
clear of deputies, and has gained point
by moving to the warehouse. The
ships compass, chTOnOmeter and quad
rant are in the custody of the custom
officials. who are involved in the diff
Guilty. and an international complication
is likely to result, as the case has been
reported by telegraph to the state de-
partment at Washington.