The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-03-09
.TRICkED AND TRAPPED.
Bernard Campbell Tolls tho Thrill
ling Story Of His Escape
FROM GEN. HlPPOLYTE'S AGENTS.
He Was Trapped TO Fight in IInytl.
Consul Gauticr,at Cape ifnytlcn hc-
cuscd of Completely in the Effort to
Impress an American Clifton into n
Foreign Military servicc...Awarded
$4,000 Damages.

NRw YoRK, March S.-Dernard Camp.
bell is not u fighting man. Ills fond
ness for peace and the suGcrings no
hc went through in order 10 avoid going
to war have earned a Judgment Of ten
thousand dollars for him against JIM.
nez, llaustedt & Co. II tho story Camp.
bell told on tho witness stand in tho su-
pcrior court is. true ho got very little
protection from the American govern.
mont representatives in Hayti three
years ago, whom m attempt was made to
force him on beard the gunboat Caron-
delet, Of IIippolyte's navy. Tho jury
evidently believed his story. ri
Bernard Campbell is Il grizzled old
man. lie holds an unlimited" license
as 4 marine engineer. This qualities
him to run tho engine OF 4 steamship
OF any size. He came home from trip
to Panama carly in April, 1880, and
stayed at Collins boarding house, No.
80 West street. Soon after his arrival
some ono left word at the boarding
house that Jiminez, Ilaustcdt & Co.
wanted to see Campbell at their office in
Hanover square,. What happened to
him after he got there Campbell! rotated
on the witnessstand before Judge Nc
Adam and jury few days ago.
X, NOT HIRED TO FIGHT.
He said:-"I called at the Office and
met Mr.. IIaustedt. lie said he wanted
engineers Tor service on rcssela in the
West Indies and that he was willing to
pay $3.50 a month TO- term OF six
months. ! asked him what was tho nj.
ture OF the srevice. Ho said On Amer
lean vessels with American crows and
American officers. 1t is pleasant work. :
lie didn't say anything about having to
fight.
II thought, as hot weather was COM
ing on and there was danger Of yellow
fever in Southern ports, that $3.50 Il
month was not such very high pay, and
] felt sure that Mr.. Haustedt's word was
good enough to make me ccrtain Of good
treatment. lie and signed contract
in duplicate, and he told mo to 60
aboard the steamship G. W. Clyde, OF
the Clyde line, the next morning.
did SO. l had been promised tickets
for my trip down and my trip back at
the end OF tho contract, but on board
the steamship nobody seemed to know
anything about the matter beyond the
fact that my fare had been paid in ono
direction.
"A few days later we arrived at Cape
Haytien. We anchored alongside OF
the steamship Carondelct, which had
-been bought in New York by Insurgent
Hippolytc's agents, taken to Hayti and
loaded with cannon and ammunition.
Captain Compton, who commanded the
Carondelet for Hipp6lyte. came aboard
and took away twenty-four men who
had been drunk pretty nearly all the
time between New York and Cape Hay.
ten. lie told me l was to 60 with
them.
TRAP.
II saw that tho whole thing was a
trap to make me fight in tho service OF
Hippolytc, and ! refused TO 60. The
agent coaxed me first, then he swore at
me aud threatened me and said l would
be punished for not keeping my con-
tract. Captain Kelly and Purscr Col
vile. OF the G. W. CLYDE, told me that I
must 60 with this man. I refused.
Captain Kelly told me l must get off
tho ship. | had plenty of money with
me and offered to pay him for my trip
down from New York and for my pas
sage back there He refused to let me
stay on the ship. However, no told me
| might remain that night. Captain
Compton said:
you'll 70 aboard the Carondelc.., or
be shot and be d to you
Next morning 1 hired q native bort
and called upon Admiral Bancroft
Gherardi on his flag ship, the Galena,
Which lay ut anchor in the harbor, with
the Ossipec near by. I explained my
predicamcnt to Admiral Gherardi, and
asked him for protection. He said, 4
can't protect YOU from keeping your
contract You must live up to it. lean
only refer YOU to the American consul,
Mr.. Gautier.' I said I understood that
Gautier was working for Ilippolyte.
Admiral Gherardi only replied that
must keep my contract. I said, We'll,
ii can get no help from the American
consul can come buck TO you I? He an
swered NO" Then I went ashore and
saw Mr.. Gauticr, tho United States con-
Gul. l told him had been ordered off
the Clyde, although had offered to pay
my passage home 10 New York. Mr..
Gautier said:
81 will see Captain Compton and it
will be all right. In the meantime you
had better 70 aboard the Carondelet
and stay there until the Clyde comes up
again on her way to New York v
LITTLE HELP FROM GAUTIER.
81 thought that this was only trap
to get me- on board the Carondelct, and
knew very well ii they got mo there
they would never lot me leave it alive,
! told Mr.. Gautier this, and after long
argument, he finally gave mo pass
port upon which might 60 rs far as
Monte Crlsto, port some distance
down the island. I put my baggage
: aboard trading schooner which lay
out at the end of long wharf and en-
gagged passage on her to Monte Cristo.
When lhad slowed everything I found
that the schooner was not very well pro-
yisioned, SO came ashore to buy my
self some sardines and other delicacics.
/ In town l saw Captain Compton. Ho
asked mo il was going aboard his ship
and I told him no. Ho said:
swell, you'll be aboard the Caronde-
lot or in hell tomorrow morning. l
went on up town and on my way back
at dusk when ! was half way down tho