The morning call., 1893-09-15
STRANGE SUICIDE.
A Sailor Hangs Himself
at Sea.
NEWS FROM THE SEALERS.
A Boat With Three Men From the
Victoria SeaIer Marvin Saved
by the Matte Dyer.

The ship Carondelet, Captain Jones. ar
rived yesterday. 165 days from Cooks In
let, Alaska, with a cargo of salmon. On
September 8 James Patterson. seaman,
committed suicide by hanging himself.
About 3 A. NJ, while the crew were at
coffee, he took a chest-lasniDg, made a
hangman'S 5 moose. fastened Gne end of it to
the bowspTit shrouds, put his head lii the
other, went down the bobstays and swung
himself of. No one saw the act, but he
did not jump off. for when tho suicide was
discovered half an hour later and the body
hauled up the skin of the neck was not
broken.
There is no doubt Patterson was insane,
He had sailed with Captain Jones some
years ago and proved himself frst-class
seaman. Some time since then he had a
fall a. Port Townsend, with affected his
brain. Aboard ship on this trip he seemed
at times not to be able to fix his mind on
the work in hand, but his companions
could not determine whether he was sham
ming Stiffness or was really "Otf." lii the
light Of the subsequent event. his actions
are clear. He must have been planning
the suicide for some time, and chose the
only time in the day when he could have
taken his life unobserVed.
GduerSOO was au AlncTlcdH, dRbu 81,
and had sailed out of this port for eight or
nine years. He left no papers except a
mem bership book in the Coast SeameD's S
| Union.
The sealing schooner Matte i. DyeI.
| eighteen days from Copper Island, arrived
! yesterday. Her catch was 1870 seals. She
/ picked up boat containing three men
which was lost from the Victoria schooner
! e. b. Marvin and brought them here. The
! occupants were John LandgreD, hunter
! limo HigO, steerer. and August FolstrOm,
| boaJ-header. They were out only one
night. during which they rode out a fierce
| gale.
! fifteen days from Sand Point, arrived yes
! terday. Her catch was 1040 skins. On
! June she lost boat containing Henry
| SIZZLING. Tom Bentley and James Barnes.
! They were picked up by the Allie L.
! Alger. and landed June "a at HakOdate.
! Que Of the crew Of the Bnwhead remarked
| To CALL reporter: I'VE didn't gel as
much as buckelful OF water on our decks
/ during the voyage. She is The best boat
! that ever left this port"
A few miles outside the heads Wednes-
! day morning the Bowhead passed very
| close TO au English an-of-war-pro baby
| bound for Esquimalt. The cruiser hOisted
! her flag, but the BOwheaG did not return
| the compliment.
The State dredge working yesterday at
! Folsom No. ished uD bale of gunnies,
/ discharged from the Castle Rock aud sup
/ posed to have been stolen from the wharf.
The steamer Sunol has gone to the Union
! Iron Works drydock for general repairs.
which will give her greater speed Her
place on the Vallejo route has been taken
by the SOnOma.
Ia speaking of the cargo of bones found
/ in a vessel that was towed into New Y Ork
/ several days ago by an ocean steamer
! HarbOrmasIer Jelieh of Seattle says that
| lie was on the vessel in 1874, when she was
/ known Rs the De Safe. He explained that
the bones were from Alexandria aud were
! t. be used in refining sugar.
TIE new schooner just completed at G. G.
| Whites shipyard al Alameda was meas
uTed yesterday by Official Msasurer st.
| John, who found her dimensions to be
Length SO feet, beam % feet, depth IL feet,
gross tonnage 9S.4l, net So 49. She will be
called the Bessie X and is owned by j. 5.
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