Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-06-19
A STORY OF PIRATES.

mad run away n coo
'a from Liverpool to Sbanoboi -,
tho ner on arrival found that
Ie captain of the Silver Crown ono ' 81
com pany traders, was an old frio,a
iathers, and SO it came abont tho,
-; oA service in the company under
LII win the rating of cabin how Tho
'CAooher carried dozen mnolot. ~
u boarding pixies and half IT,, - ~
ldSses as an armament hnt o,-a,.r-.,' ~.
foro. .oAeu up and stored away. if not
49, Sn capt. Wharton had been in
a. a. wee Tor SIX years and had never
slth any trouble.
s"e got away it was with orders
lppine islands, among which
pad many resident agents
products Our course was
asst to pass between For
Ne. I6. ELoo Choo Islands, and we
NO. %, Mrun thus far without Incl
ne day about noon a Junk
No. Is, re craft, which doubtless
NO. VI, bme port in Formosa. inter
Main IShe eastward of that island
50 So. csf bout thirty miles off shore
PorsFhalled us. She claimed to be
5"' water owing to an accident;
'HiS' DIS we afterward came to know
Ids only an excuse. When she learned
',iat we were bound to the Philippines
que had three passengers to transfer
iney were three natives of Formosa.
VINO were going down there to found
colony, and would pay literally for
passage by the schooner.
am OnlV lrlVincr Won tl,o rr;,.
was urged in excuse. We Law To for a
couple of hours, and heard ONLY a mart Of
what was said. 1t did not seem to strike
capt Wharton or Mate Williams as
queer or suspicious, and after haggIino
over terms for while the three natives
were transferred to our decks and the
vessels separated Then l had time to
look the strangers over, and was not
long In concluding that | did not wish
Tor an intimate acquaintance They
were tough looking trio, and the cook
mad scarcely set eyes on them before he
declared that we had made great mis-
take in taking them aboard We had no
accommodations for them aft, and as the
schooner was in ballast they had agreed
to occupy the hold.
l took IN early opportunity of com
munI,'at.n., my suspicious to the captain,
but he laughed at me in good natured
way. tried the mate, but he saw moth
ing to arouse distrust. 1t was singular,
however, that every man of the crew
outside of the two officers was satisfied
That there was something wrong with
the trio While their excuse was rea
sonable enough, the looks and actions of
the men were suspicious, and it was
plain toall that they were sailors. They
let US all severely alone except the cap
tain and the cook, and called it to mind
afterward that while one interested the
former the other two were occupied with
the latter. | could "chin-chin" a bit
and the cook could speak little En-
glish, and SO we managed to understand
each other pretty well. Three days
after the men came aboard "Slop-Slip,"
as we called the cook, assured me with
very serious face that the strangers were
evil minded men, who had planned to
capture the schooner. They had asked
him to join them, and he had refused. !
posted off to the captain with this news
and he greeted it with contempt.
We were getting we'll down toward the
northernmost island of the group, when
something happened which should have
opened the captains eyes. The leader of
the three borrowed the glasses and went
up to the croSStrees of the mainmast and
took a long look around We saw the
sailor in his every move, and he had not
been down an hour when a native craft
came creeping up from the south, bows
on to us. She had free wind, while
we had been beating down all the fore
noon. We were at this time forty or
fifty miles to the;northward of the group,
with beautiful afternoon and smooth
sea- Half an hour after the native craft
had been sighted, one of the natives and
the captain retired to the cabin. Five
minutes later the native showed his head
above the deck and called to the mate,
who had just come on watch. He dis
appeared down the companionway, and
at the same time | entered the forecaStle
to look for something wanted l was
down there about five minutes | heard
no particular row on deck, but when !
reappeared | was struck dumb by the
spectacle. One of the natives was at the
wheel, and was bringing the schooner
into the wind to lie to, The decapitated
bodies of the two Americans and the
cook were lying amidships, while the
two Swedes were at the foremost cross
trees. Not a shout had been raised nor
cry uttered. The work had been done
with terrible rapidity and in silence.
AS reached the deck one of the ma
tives came forward with bloody creese
in his hand and called me good boy
and said | should not be hurt. He left
me sitting on the windlass SO scared and
weak that l could not stand and then
assisted his companions to lower the
sails. When this had been accomplished
they called to the Swedes to come down.
The poor fellows began crying and
lamenting and refused to descend. The
.c,tives picked up the bodies from the
I ab,k and tossed them overheard, and
/. % descended to the cabin and brought
Nm. Pu.s, bodies of captain and mate and
k..s1, Ian the same way. Both had
p 'hANE by the one native who en-
living taken tnown About the time the
ne Steam Laundi, e,,ro ovar the rail t.,a ma.
TITS, collars, cuff. alongside Shp had
d Thursday Of ca, hoard ali of whom seemed
paica'ion' hree passengers and their
Twas great rejoicing over
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