The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-10-17

~t,rc.oyyilLE, FLAr Oct. lO.-Tho
Pa, Mr.. JUNIOR started for home We'd
,r.ly morning satisfied, apparently,
,r,, Thornton and Eva are as INNOCENT
.,Igmb.. The pastor has spent several
I,y. IN the country lying between this
c,y and the Atlantic ocean, and has
come carefully over the route that the
rotqways claim to have travelled, and
,sccn ncarIyGycry person with whom
they conyersed while in Florida.
al started out on tho assumption that
]Tboru,on's story ia true, and 80 far |
lind nothing 10 shake my faith in his
in,c,r;ty," said ho 10 tho World cores
,@omIep,. Thornton says that he and
tli., level! were set ashore on tho At
iIn,ir coast not far from the mouth OF
,Gr s., Johns river. The country was,
n course, entirely new to them, and the
sr,,rmrnt that their landing place was
lr,wccn Mayport and Pablo was only n
Elrl!lAC OIL tLclTr' l haNc pNcii AL WI
,Lp country down there, and ! am firmly
convinced that it was possible for them
IN lave been landed south OF Pablo
beach and to have reached Jacksonville
il, Inc manner described by them. Ii
,bry had been landed six miles or more
south Of Pablo they could have struck
ont in a northwcsterly direction, and
Lgye reached South Jacksonville by
Loat and By cart, without any OF the
geographical impossibilitics that some
oi the newspaper reports have woven
about them. They would OF course have
been obliged TO cross 4 railroad track
once, il not twice, but in their anxiety
to reach civilization, they might not
have noticed this"
did You find the house or log cabin
where they said they got their break
last"
"No, for | did not search for any
such house. Mr.. Thornton says the
rcpor, OF his story was incorrect in
this one particular, and the reporter
who got the Interview says it is pos
siblc that he may have misunder-
stood Thornton on this II point. 1t
was regarded as a trivial inaccuracy
then; now, however, it has 4 very i'm
purtant bearing upon the case.
}lr. JUNIOR, in his travels, found no.
body who had seen q Spanish vessel
"laNing to" off the coast, nobody who
saw 4 ships boat land with the casta-
ways, aud nobody who saw the pairon
their tramp across the country or in
the rude conveyance in which they
claim that they completed their jour
Ney. lie has not, 50 far as he will dis
close. discovered the mar who drove
them to South Jacksonville, nor has he
found anybody who saw them cross the
Terry on the Sunday noon in question.
lut he has seen all the attaches OF the
st. Johns house, and discovered the
waist OF Miss Jewels dress, which she
said was given her by the first Spanish
captains wife, and the quarters that
they occupied in the Hudnall block.
H. talked with the people in the St.
Johns house and its annex, and found
nothing in their testimony to criminate
the castaways. lie cross-cxamined
Conductor Barr, taking down his tcsti-
Mony in shorthand, but failed to shake
hs identification OF Samuel and Eva.
Elitor Carriers story, toe, was not altered
abit.
Brother Rocbuck has not yet returned
IRON the woods, where he went so sud-
denly Inst night to capture the negro
Who helped the castaways by ride on
his cart.
Its now pretty well understood that
Sam aud Eva went down to Pablo beach
on sunday morning latter arriving here
Saturday night to get the lay OF the
land preliminary to preparing their
story.
Pastor JUNIOR says there are slight
discrepancies between the statements
Oh Carter and Barr, and that he pro-
poses TO use these discrepancies to
break the force OF their testimony.