The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1893-06-13
CANNIEAL CASTAWAYS.
Thirteen Days ON Tossing Wrcck-Lots
Drawn to Determine Who Shall Die.


Seldom has there been told q more grue-
tale than that of the three sailors VINO
have been confined in the prison at Rite
bucttel. under the charge of murder and can
pit alism. They are tho survivors of the
crew OF the ship Iheila. and after drifting
about for thirteen days on its wreck, almost
dead from starvation, they killed and ate the
flesh Of the fourth member of their CHASTITY
party. All three are young. Olaf Anderson
of TonSberg, in Norway, is twenty-five;
Christian Hjalmar Jacobsen, of Christiansand,
is the same age; Alexander Johansseh, born IN
Eiskerbekskilde, in Sweden, is i'll his twenty
fifth year. The murdered man, of whom all
three speak as "the Dutchman," the
eldest; he was tWenty-seven. a correspond
ent of The Hamburger Nachrichtcn has inter
viewed the prisoners and gives the following
account:
The first to step into the small court is Olaf
Anderson. lie is OF middle height and of
broad build, stoops slightly and has long,
swinging arms. lis head, covered with fair.
curly hair, is a massive one, the forehead
high, and the face, which is not without
some Intelligence, is beardless, bloated and
c0Iorlcss, and his leshy underlip hangs down.
His steel gray eyes, with the tired and sad
look, only raise themselves now ana then,
and very unWillingly, from the ground The
Impression that Oiaf Anderson makes is not
an unfayorable one. One might imagine him
wicked one.
Olaf Anderson, sit down and tell me your
story"
You mean about the Dutchman, SIR"
'Ics, about the Dulchman.'
Olaf Anderson looks down and begins to
speak. Ills voice sounds hoarse, but he speaks
| without heStating, as ii he knew that there
Was only one thing now ana forever that ne
could relate and that was about the Dutch
! man. Olaf Anderson began:
we lefh Philadelphia on the 1st of Deem
| Der. Up to the 2otn we had good voyage.
! Then in the North the bad weather be-
gan. Great seas broke over the vessel ana
| the ship was lost. She began 10 break up.
Two mosts had gone by the board hui t ltL
but white they were being lowered they cap
sized, all but one. Those who could manage
it jumped in, the captain ana some 0thcrS-
altogether eight. Those who remained hcthnh
climbed into the rigging. We DID not see
much of each other and at first did not even
know who had stopped on the wreck. For
shat with the continued rolling of the vessel
and the pillows daShing over her we h2d as
| being washed away. When were able to
look about bit we saw That there were -FOUR
| of US, Jac0bjpn. JohanSScn, the III Gilman
and l. This was on the I'D OF 'ccem0er.
We all four had nothing TO eat. even =
tobacco leaf, not sllce OF bread + n'q an
happened so sud ienly. BESIDES be'n& nun
gry we could not sleep, FOR we $ in the
ScuttIe aud it very small. Nhen sleep
got the better of one wave came and struck
one on the heaCa and face. which caused great
t p,.'lI w feel vow had Ne suffered greatly
Ships passed Us. but did not see US, for we
had a deal Of fOggy weather or it was night.
We certainly saW them. these strange ships,
even III me uarheS, hiSn'' +, i"i t ~ hn ~
li"H h "ui - So fh~y pnSsod on ana saw us
olaf Anderson, of course, related all this in
broken sentences. The questions had TO be
put to him sngy, Whercupon he answered
without H4 I} ;m T>ia,'';n,, 81 q man Who ST.
ne Ini1ao We inILi rn"o'i nov 70 nvnress him
in1HSm nVt no mn, >.,r,, .hout what he want
ser, was |rI qHi'p 81, !'0'u' "i'"' Nv "'''''
ed t" say. IL cohu ~ 3 = ,,.os Friday
, 'h le ,'ltreiIN ''t ,I," ycnoti,nr ~ ~
tIe SEA nn' rH fI3c,, Inv ho snorning and ",
gear; re" .''u i'lI'!' ~ .inI ~ ,1"ril,
hcked IL on d!e t"i,I I r '.,, mis- av
ropes ~ "a as ~, l,,f nnt III -.Tln DlIfrh
%,ue {" e u S|,' v59s o5ife ics6ergte'
Could you make yourself nndGfs'qoo W"L
the putciluan! Liu 20" SPc"N 'i4' '"'7'
or ne yours ,.,,,, +,,l.f,, goi-a an
tIi4je sfooG alora a@1rcHsfIf r which 1T this
castle hack 9~an f" H. ~ IN ne Tore
ng there somebody spoke The first ti,na Of II
Who it was | don-t know II i. .,,tfiit =,
know that If was spnj5en ono az I,l i,.', -
man said Inc Cid not carn nni-t ir I, ,'i ~
!fe lie would de- j|ut the others said that bat
the cnsfdn in ,i'b ~, oone lairi! Is Is
.Cust0u, \Vhy have Won, ,,r 1,, .
such a frfghtful custom ?',' va e''' "'"i" VI
First we waited from I Il" 13 IL {n4t way
Perhaps after all a Shin Touid como i' I3iit
none cam" Tb"n rho II,Iif r,n vo,iP i;ut
| NATTER one Way or the other. he 1,I,1d
not bear II any !Ougpy. So we 1nprnnIn7 ,l'i,
10 the forecastlr. one after the other. Wien
there. one Of MS forr off - nin~a If lj,, " ~, II
divided il into rr,r ngrts nnn ~ ,..i tirH "Ilu
! ehortrr. tial, tba t bfrs ,I,his l,. "tl'H WIS
death The man Who drew rat y az I,i' ~ ~
/ and the lyltrh1I,n jrazl II ' '"' =" me
Oar Anderson passed fbn b9rl, NJ u.s.. ham,
! over his brow ,rbfs ,.ae iudo9d ti' nj. M no
! of eXctcmeut shown by him. lie stilI 'sndj,n
! in the same hollow tone MS in thn hr%i ,'''c