Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-12-25
WHY SHE WAS HAUNTED.
Ship Whose Cruel and Merciless Cap
tain Had Been Murderad.

tsin hau Seen Murdered
Few ships that sail out OF Liverpool
are regarded with moro suspicion by
sailors than The ship Glengarry Gays
the San Francisco Call.
'|The ship is haunted" said one of
her crew 20 a reporter recently. land
l wouldn't make another trip in her il
had to stay ashore all my life. There
was only eight Of US in watch, yet
every time we had to furl the foretop
gallant-sail at night we could count
from ten to fifteen men on the yard"
Where did the extra men come
FROM"
We'll, I'm not what you call SUPER
stitious, but l don't mind telling you.
lit all lies with the captain who
formerly commanded her. and whose
name was Isle. That man would
'hoodoo' the best ship that floated. and
no matter what captain has charge OF
the Glengarry now he always has
trouble with his crew. Why, on the
trip from London to Sydney every sea-
man in the forecastle was locked in
for fourteen days. The captain said
1t was for refusing to bend the main
sail so he fed US on bread and water
until we agreed TO bend the sail after
dark.
1.-The Glengarry is fast ship, and
Captain Lisle used to drive her for all
she was worth, and in consequence has
lost more men than any two masters
who ever had charge of vessel. One
night while on the passage from Liver
pool to Baltimore he carried sail until
she drove into a big sea that took
twelve men off the deck at once, and
every man of them was lost.
'On the next passage the foretop-
gallant mast was carried away, while
seven men were on the top gallant
yard furling the sail, and not man Of
the seven was saved
THAT was his last trip in the Glen
garry, but since that time the vessel
has been haunted and any one can
prove it by going aloft after night.
Captain Lisle carried his bad luck
with him to his next ship, and he also
took Malay cook who had been with
him on several voyages. The way he
used to treat that cook was caution.
Not day passed that he did not beat
or kick him, and every one wondered
why the man stayed with him. The
cook waited and watched. and the
chance he was looking for came at
last.
He was one OF those men who
never forgot or forgave an injury, and
he only stayed with Isle in order to
get revenge. One night the ship was
caught in a terrible gale on the pas
sage out to Ragoon, and the mate
ordered the Malay cook TO call the
captain. Lisle always locked his
room door when he retired. and never
moved without pistol in his pocket
and this the cook knew. On the night
in question he called Isle as ordered.
but in coming out of his cabin he was
thrown against the cabin door by a
sudden lurch of the ship, and dropped
TO the floor senseless.
THE Malay quickly perceived the
opportunity for which he had been
waiting. and selling large knife he
sprang on the PROSTATE man like a
tiger. and In an instant plunged the
keen blade into his breast Again and
again he stabbed Isle, and then rip
ped open the body and cut out the
heart of his enemy.
The murder was discovered by the
mate who went into the cabin TO see
why the captain did not turn out The
murderer was close at his heels, and.
daring any one to lay hand on him.
coolly walked to the rail and jumped
overheard.
1T was some time before another
captain could be found to take COM
mand of the vessel, but at last mas
ter was sent out to her, and she sailed
from Rangoon, bound for London.
The ship failed to reach her desti.
nation. and was never heard OF after
ward