Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-05-14
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Started IA Pursuit Of the Bold Gillian.
Los ANGELES, Cal, May 1.-THE
schooner Robert and Minnie was cap
tured Saturday afternoon about 3 miles
from san Pedro by Deputy Marshal
Anderson, on board the tug Falcon.
She made no resistance and was towed
into San Pedro harbor and tied MP 10
the wharf The arms said to have been
on board had disappeared. 1t is be-
lievtd they had been transferred to the
Gillian steamer Itata-
san FRANCISCO, May IA morn
ing paper says that when the
/ Charleston sailed Saturday .4orning it
was under sealed orders. A cipher dis
/ patch was received by Capt. Remy at
midnight Friday. It took over three
hours to translate the dispatch, and at 4
/ o'clock in the morning all visitors were
] ordered ashore and the Charleston
! hastily put 10 sea The vessel is pro-
! visioned and coaled for a long cruise,
and instead of going outside to try her
guns, rs was the general supposition at
! first, it is said she has gone in pursuit
! Of the Gillian steamer Itata, with
orders to capture her If the
Charleston does not catch her
| her orders are 10 keep on
until Admiral Brown is encountered in
Gillian waters. The transfer of arms
and ammunition from the schooner
! Robert and Minnie to the Itata was
00t completed until Friday afternoon,
so that the insurgent vessel has a start
Of tbirty-six hours and 500 miles. The
Charleston would have returned to this
port BY this time if she had gone out
'ide simply for target practice
Los ANGELES, Cal, May 1f.-Before
the schooner Robert and Minnie was
captured by the United States marshal
Supercargo Burch and Pilot Dill, who
took the ltata out of San Diego harbor,
went ashore. Dill was arrested at San
Pedro. Burch came to Los Angeles and
was traced by a reporter TO the
Arcade depot, where he was waiting
70 taee a train to San Francisco. Burch
at first denied that be was the man
wanted, but afterward acknowledged
It and was arrested by Detective Harry
Morse and is now in custody of the
United States marshal. Burch SAYS he
landed the arms. but declines to say
at what point. but il is supposed /
to have been at Catilina or San Clemente J
Island. He insists that he has violated /
40 law and seems to be confident that /
he will be released, He said that he |
had not violated single maritime law I
nor had he violated those relating to
neutral powers.
Burch said he was confident that the
ltata could not possibly have been de-
tanned by force at the command of the
United States marshal as her crew
would mosl certainly have resisted any
attempt to board her. He also ex-
pressed surprise that Marshal Gard did
not seize the schooner when he went out
to her IN a tug if she was TO have been
seized at all. Burch has telegraphed
the facts as to his arrest to Senator
Trumbull, has engaged attorneys and \
will fight the ease. but appears to be I
expecting advices from Washington or /
dering his release
Pilot Dill, of San Diego. came up
from San Pedro wi Tia United states +
Marshal Gard Dill says he had no
alternative but to take the ltata to
sea. He says the captain put three /
armed Chilians on either side of /
him and remained himself with a re-
volver to see that he did not run the /
steamer aground. He says he saw fifty /
or sixty armed men on board but there |
may have been more. There were two |
cannons on the forward deck and he /
was told that there We're six more can
non and two gatling guns on board |
Dill says he is confident that the vessel |
would have resisted any attempt to de. /
tain her. asst was matter of life or /
death. He says the Itata was veritable /
man of war when he took her out of the |
harbor, but had the appearance of a mer-
chant vessel when he brought her in.
SAN DIEGO, Cal, May IL. - The |
United States man of war Omaha |
steamed out of the harbor Saturday,
and after passing the heads stood
out to sea in a south
westerly course. Commander Crom-
well received mass of cor
respondenee in cipher from the
navy department, and it is understood
that he has instructions to cruise around
the Coronado islands and San Clements
to find out, if possible, where the Rob
ert and Minnie met the ltata, and to
pick up the schooner If sighted.