The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-10-04
ONLY A DRUNKEN ROW.
The PeacemAker, as Usual, Got tn
Worst Of 1t.

The PeacemAker, as Usual, Got the
Worst Of 1t.
PORT COSTA. Oct. "a representative OF
THE CALL sent to investigate the affair,
tonight had a talk with DIR. Howard, who
is attending Captain Adams. The doctor
reports the captain in no danger. and, un-
less erysipelas should intervene, he will be
out in couple of days. The only serious
wound received by the captain in the melee
was on the scalp, about five inches long.
cutting through to the bone but not injur-
ing the skull
Constable Stemle. who arrested the sailor.
engaged in the assault, states that the row
began in the Identical saloon at Vallejo
junction between the mates of the ship and
the sailors. resulting in the mates swearing
out warrants against a. Jolly and w. Cat
tin on charges of battery.
When the constable went TO the ship to
make the arrests this morning the mates
preferred additional charges against
II. Buck, Decker and Tyreei, whom they
accused Of making murderouS attack
upon Captain Adams after their return to
the ship.
Captain Adams confirms the statement of
the mates, and states that his attention was
attracted early this morning by sounds of
an alteration on deck. Going out in his
undertaking he found the sailors aud
mates fighting, and while attempting TO
qusl the row he was struck over the head
with marlin spike or Delaying pin.
Your correspondent interviewed the ar
rested sailors in the Crockett jail, and they
denied in toto the statements of the captain
and mates. They say that when they re-
turned to the ship after the alteration with
the mates in the Identical saloon they were
met by the mates at the gangway and as
saulted, Chief Mate James striking some of
them over their heads with an iron poker.
Four of the sailors bear the marks of the
t1ipt Of than having cPafn nd
about an inch long, another having his eyes
badly in mourning, a third bad cut under
one eye, and fourth deep cut on the left
arm.
The sailors all stoutly deny striking Cap
tain Adams. claiming that the blow came
from cutlass in the hands of one of the
mates. They also claim that the trouble
originated in Ill treatment. When they
signed articles they claim that they were to
have two pounds Of meat per day, and that
they never got but one; that they had to
perform unnecessary duty and that the
petty tffcers were continually harassng
them.
After the fight the mates picked Captain
Adams up from the deck where he was ly-
ing unconscious and the men went to the
foTecasile where they were found by the
officer this morning.
The sailors claim that they want to leave
the ship on accountof cruelty, but that they
cannot get the wages due them. These
amounts, they aver, range from $50 to 940
each.
The only charge against the sailors is bat
terry, and the examination has been set for
October 8. by which time Captain Adam
will be we'll enough to appeariD court. DIR.
Howard laughed at the story OF the San
Francisco paper that Captain Adam needed
the services of other physicians, and that
only extreme care and constant watching
would save the patients life.
The sailors state that they do not know
who killed the captains canary bird, but
think that the mates did it in order to
prejudice the captain against them. The
whole thing was the elimination of a
drunken row, in which the peaeemaker got
the worst of If