The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-02-17
WANTED, A HULL.
Justice Weed Has All the
Paraphernalia to Fit
Out a Vessel.
INTERESTING SEA TALE.
A Vessel Stripped Of It's Rigging at
Wilmington, n. C.-Traced
to Jersey City.

J. NJ. King, manager OF the Standard
National Storage Company. whose placs
Of business is at Fifty-third street aud
Lexington avenue, New YORK, was arrest
ed yesterday by virtue Of search war
rant issued by Justice Weed At
the same time two car loads Of sails.
ropes. blocks, &c. all the paraphernalIa
necessary to fit out a large vesse. was
seized as stolen property. The story that
brought this result Is a curious one.
On February the Norwegian bark
Belgian, Captain Gabrielle Larrio. was
forced to put into Wilmington. n. O.. in
distress The vessel had encountered
bad weather aud had been severe
~ pounded BY the seas. Cap
tain Larrfo, who owned a small
interest in the vessel caused the cargo 70
be unloaded and reshipped TO the con-
signees on another vessel He then nofi-
hed the First National Bank Of Pensa-
colo, Fla, of the condition Of the vessel
The bank held a mortgage of s, 500 on the
vessel, and II at once, by the terms OF this
mortgage, foreclosed- The vessel and its
rigging and stores were sold at auction
and were bought by Jared Petrie, ship
broker, OF No. 20 Stone street, New York.
In the mean time one dark night Cap
tain Larrio took from the vessel all It's
rigging, sails, stores etc, and under cover
miles from Wilmington TO rail road
station and there shipped them to Char
lesion. S. c. From Charleston the goods
were shipped to this city. When Jared
Petrie learned that the ship he had
bought had been stripped OF
matter I5s rigging s'e;i The he Blasdsa BBaSds sss af
Deputy United States Marshall Mark
Golinsky. The Marshall placed his
brother in charge Of the vessel and AZ
once began an active search for the goods
BY the aid Of some bills Of laden he sue
and he SO informed Mr.. Petrie. A close
watch was kept in the Pennsylvania
freight yard for the two cars and ytster-
day morning they were found Mr.. Petrie
was at once notified, and he ceme over
from New York and swore out a search
John Graham 70 be executed Graham
went TO the freight yard and found a van
belonging to the Standard National Stor-
age Company. loaded with the missing
goods, and also large truck loaded He
looked around and saw I. NJ King, the
act of paying the freight on the goods
and arrested him The alleged stolen
property was taken 70 Justice Weeds
Office and so was King. The latter was
very much frightened.
He said that yesterday morning two
WOuels MuO were dccOu1pdulcu oy q AAdH
named Pinod, foreman In silk
mill on Fifty-fourth street, New
Y ork, called at his place OF
business. King said he knew
Pinod very well but did not know the
woman. The latter told King that they
had some goods consigned TO them and
wanted MIN to pay the freight on the
goods and store them until wanted King
said this was an unusual occurrence and
he would have refused had not Pinod said
il was all right; that he knew the women
and that the husband of one was q sea
captain who had probably sent the goods
on to be sold at auction King then con-
sented. and he had Just paid s5S freight
when arrested
Justice Weed said today that the prop
erty was stored in Montgomery's storage
house, and that If no other owner put in
a claim for It by Saturday he would de-
liver the goods 10 Jared PeErie, who had
sworn he owned them.