The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-08-31
SEIZED IN BERING SEA
Four Poachers Captured by a
Russian Warship.
THREE BRITISH. ONE AMERICAN.
when tho Prisoners Protest They Are
6scated, Crews Sent TO Victoria.

VICTORIA, Aug. 81. - iopeclai.I lhe
American bark Majestic. from Petro-
paulovski, reached here this evening, hav-
ing on board the captains and crews OF the
four sealing schooners, Rosie Olsen, ARIEL
and William MCGOWAN, flying the British
flag, and the American schooner &. II.
White, of San Francisco.
These four vessels were sealing of Cop
per islands within q radius OF forty and
fifty miles during the latter part Of July,
whea the Russian warship Zabraka.
noun ting sixteen guns, and the fur COM
pany's steamer Kodiak, bearing the gov
ernor of Boring island. rounded them up
one by one, sent the schooners to be sold
at Petropaulovski and made the captains
and crews prisoners. The former objected
to the seizure. claiming they were
free men on free sea, where
upon the marines pricked them
with the points of their bayonets and in
formed them that there was such q place
as Siberia for those who spoke too loudly
of freedom. Both the British and Ameri-
can shippers recognized that there was no
time for talking small. They ventured to
protest that they were away outside the
three-mile limit, and were met with the as.
founding information from the officer OF
the Zabraka that Russia is sovereign over
waters / 900 miles from her shores. The
captain Of the Russian cruiser based his
action on the ground that Russia exer-
cised Jurisdiction over all the land and
water westward of the line Of demarca-
ton.
After being taken aboard the Zabraka,
the master of each schooner was ordered to
sign paper written in Russian, and ex-
planned by the interpreter as an acknowl-
edgement that he had been seal
ing in Russian waters. The shippers
protested aud were told that those who
did not sign would be sent to Vladivostock
20 be court-martialed and then sent to the
Siberian mines. Under compulsion the
captains signed, and they and their crews
underwent a taste of Russian prison life,
twenty-one men being kept for days in
room l1x11 feet with leaky roof and
broken floor. The men were finally turned
out on the beach. and the Majestic coming
that way a contract was entered into to
transport them TO American or British
soil, and in the evening the prisoners were
shipped away on board. no particular eff
fort being made by the guards to detain
them. The Majestic sailed at night and
the next morning the Zabraka started out
on another hunting cruise, schooners
being the game sought.
Convicts Shot While Trying to Escape.
JACKSON. Mich, Aug. 3O-Edward
Huntley, 20 years of age, Detroit burg
lar, John Davis, % years old, a Kalamazoo
burglar, and Lige Billiard, Detroit crim-
inal. attempted to escape from the peni-
tertiary this morning by climbing the
prison wall. Huntley and Davis were
fatally shot, and all were recaptured. The
attempt was made at Z o'clock, and vas
timed to the best advantage. Huntley
aud Billiard 90 out in the first SQUAD. and
Davis fifteen minutes later. In some way
the convicts had secreted long ladder
near the southwest corner just inside the
wall. Keeper Chase saw Huntley and
Billiard leave the shop, and instantly fol-
lowed them. They ran swiftly to the
south corner, where Davis Joined them.
The three convicts put the ladder up
against the wall, Davis running to the top.
He had his hand filed with stones, which
he threw at the guard on the wall
as he advanced, and at the others
who followed inside the yard. The
guard fred three times at the men, but
missed. His gun then failed to go off.
The other convicts now mounted beside
Davis on the wall. Seeing that the
guards gun had failed to go off, they
stormed the guardhouse, inside of which
Guard Clark was and attempted to batter
down the door to secure gun. Huntey
carried a board shield four feet long and
iron covered, which he held in front of
him to protect him from bullets and rocks
which were directed toward him. Seeing
that ali three guards were coming he
jumped down outside the wall and started
TO run. Clark had put new cartridges in
his gun and resumed firing. He struck
Huntley twice. one bail entering the right
side under the hip and another the leg.
Guard Freeman came up at this iuncture
and brought Davis down with bali in his
left hip. which shattered the bone. caus-
ing Davis TO fall from the wall. Billiard
then threw up his hands and was hand