Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-05-12

Los tAseHLEs. Cal, May 1.-The
schooner Robert and Minnie WAS cap
tared Saturday afternoon about miles
from San Pedro by Deputy Marshal
Anderson, ON board the ting Falcon.
into San Pedro harbor and tied up to
the wharf The arms said to have been
on board had disappeared 1t is be-
lieved they had been transferred to the
CHILEAN steamer Itata
SAN Francesca. May IA morn
ing paper says vthat when tho
Charleston sailed Saturday morning 1t
was under sealed orders. A cipher dis
patch was received by Capt Remy at
midnight Friday. II took over three
hours to translate the dispatch, and atA
o'clock in the morning all visitors were
ordered ashore and the Charleston
hastily put to seq The vessel is pro-
visioned and coaled for long cruise,
and instead of going outside TO try her
guns, as was the general superstition at
frst it is said she has g6ne in pursuit
OF the Gillian steamer ltata, with
orders : to capture her. II the
Charleston does not catch her
her orders are to 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
not completed until Friday afternoon,
so that the insurgent vessel has start
Of thirty-six hours and 500 miles. The
Charleston would hayo returned TO this
port by this time if she had gone out
side simply for target Practice.
Los ANGELES, Cal, May 1l.-Before
the schooner Robert and Minnie was
captured by tho United States marshal
Supercargo Burch and Pilot Dill. who
took the ltats out of San Diego harbor,
went ashore. Dill was arrested at San
Pedro. Burch came to Los Angeles and
was traced by q reporter ito the
Arcade depot, where he was waiting
to take train to San Francisco. Burch
at first denied that he was the man
wanted. but afterward acknowledged
1t and was arrested by Detective Harry
Morse and is now In custody of the
United States marshal. Burch says he
at what point, but it is supposed
to have been at Catilina or San-Clemente
island. He insists that he has violated
no law and seems to be confident that
he will be released. He said that he
had not violated single maritime law
nor had he violated those relating to
neutral powers.
Burch said he was confident that the
Itata could not possibly have been de-
tanned By force at the command Of the
United States marshal as her crew
would most 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 tug if she was to have been
seized at all. Rurch has telegraphed
the facts as to his arrest to Senator
Trumbull, has engaged attorneys and
will fight the case, but appears to be
expecting advices from Washington or
dering his release.
Pilot Dill, Of San Diego. came up
from San Pedro with 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 q 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
carnons on the forward deck and he
was told that there were six more cam
non and two gatling guns on board.
Dill says he is confident that the vessel
would have resisted any attempt to de-
tain her. as it was q matter of life or
death. He says the Itata was a veritable
man of war when he took her out of the
harbor. but had the appearance of a I.aer-
chant vessel when he brought her in.
SAN DEoo, 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 south
westerly course. Commander Crom-
we'll received mass of cor
respondence in cipher from the
navy department, and it is understood
that he has instructions TO cruise around
the Coronado islands and San Clemente
to find out, II possible, where the Rob-
ert and Minnie met the ltata, and to
pick up the schooner If sighted.