The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-05-11

arreStlng him the Government would find
ITSELF mistaken and would have to pay him
Ior tne trouble and annoyance i. had put
MIN 10. He had not evaded single mari
time law nor had he violated those relating
70 neutral powers. He had done nothing to
De AFRAID OF, and was perfectly willing to
aDide by the consequences of his acts. The
government should have got after
HARTLEY & GRAHAM OF ILIoN,
new York, the manufacturing exporters of
tne arms shipped on the schooner. and not
after MIN. When pressed to speak of his
voyage In the schooner Robert and Minnie
Burt said that there was nothing mysteri-
Gus about her at all. The arms had been
shipped by rail from the East and loaded on
the vessel at the Oakland mole in broad
DAY hight. There had been no attempt at
concealment, because there was no neces-
sity for it. She left at 6 o'clock in the
morning, and not at o'clock as reported,
with crew consisting of himself, Captain
" FARRELL, cook and four seamen, and was
lowed by the Nigant down the coast until
OH Catalina Island. When she left the
mole There were 200 cases Of arms piled
upon the deck aft to make her easier, and
these were not slowed away until after she
lett the Heads. When boarded by the Gus
toms officers at Catalina the vessels mani
lest was shown. and several other papers.
The customs officer at first said there was
something suspicious about the vessel, and
Ieft man on board, but after
TFLEGRAPHING TO WASHINGTON
Subsequently, he took him off again. The
vessel then cruiSed about for several days,
Dut Burt got tired of waiting and, as he
could gain no information as to the where
abontS OF the steamer he was expecting, he
Determined to put in at San Diego. On his
arrival at the mouth of the harbor home
ward he sighted steamer lying in the
stream within. and at once put about, and
soon afterward received q communication
from fer. Soon afterward tug, on which
were Marshal Gard and Detective Morse,
bore down on them and steamed within 100
yards of her, but did not hail her, much to
the surprise of Burt and the crew of the
schooner. On Thursday morning they dis
charged the cargo. d, after taking Pilot
Dlll on board, they sailed to San Pedro,
where they arrived yesterday afternoon.
Burt refused to say where the schooner dis
charged her cargo, but did not deny that
the arms had been placed on one Of the
small islands in the San Clemente group.
He evidently knew both Captains Mauzeum
and Silva, but states positively that he had
not been on board the Itata.
BURT EXPRESSED HIMSELF
AS confident that the Itata could not posi-
bly, nave been detained by the force at COM
mand of the United States Marshal as her
crew would most certainly have resisted
any attempt to board her. lie also ex-
pressed surprise that Marshal Gard did not
seize the schooner when he went out to her
In the tug, If she was to have been seized at
ALL Burt has telegraphed the facts as to his
arrest to Senator Trumbull and has engaged
attorneys and will fight the case, but ap-
pears to be expecting advces from Washing
ton ordering his release.
Pilot Dill of San Diego came mp from San
Pedro this evening with United States Mar
shai Gard Dill says he had no alternative
hut TO take the ltata to sea. He says that
ba 40 fai
either side OF him and remained himself with
a TeY9lyer TO see that he did not run the
steamer aground. He says he saw fifty to
sixty armed men cn board. but there may
have been more, and two cannon on the for
ward deck, ana was told that there were six
more cannon and two Gatlng guns on
board. Dill says he is confident that the
vessel
WOULD HAVE RESISTED
Any attempt to detain her as matter of
life or death. Dill declines to say how the
arms were transferred or where, but there
Is no doubt but that it was at San Clemente
Island, as lie took the Itata to that place.
tie says he then went 10 bed and knew
nothing more until called by the quarter
master at O'Clock Thursday morning, and
was told by him that the schooner had dis
charged and to go aboard, which he did He
says the ltata was verltable man-of-war
when he took her out of the harbor, but had
the appearance of merchant vessel when
he brought her in.
Captain O'Farrell of the schooner refuses
to make any admissions. He says he did
not know he was violating any law, but re-
fuses to say what became of his cargo be-
yond the fact that he has clear receipt for
everything and that he would not have been
captured had he had his full crew. The
Federal officials are very reticent and de-
cline to say what ORDERS if any. have been
received from Washington. A private de-
in the interest Of the Chilean Government,
leaves for home tonight.