St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-06-20

SAN FRANCISCO, June 19.-The Brit
ish bark Inyeruie, Capt. Wilcox. ar
rived today. siXty-four days from New
Castle. N. s. w.. with most remark
able story of mutny and crime. Just
before the vessel left New Castle. a man
calling himself DR.. Armitage called for
passage for himself and wife to
San Francisco. Capt. Wilcox glad
ly took them Oh board, as his
own wife needed the services
of a physician. About two weeks ago
at sea Mrs.Wilcox gave:birth to child.
and Armitage 0ffieiated as,surgeOn. He
used his instruments IN such manner
that the child died. and the captain,
seeing he was unskilled as phySi-
clan. ordered him away from his wife.
Armltage appealed to the mate and crew.
telling them that the captain was kill
ing his wife. The crew, led by the mate,
mutinied, and the captain, after being
drugged, was locked up. He managed
to get out just in time to see his wife
die. Several times he was imprisoned
by the crew, but managed to break out.
Armltage's real name is Austin AieXan-
der. He is said to have deserted his
wife and baby in Sydney and fled
to New Castle with another
woman, where he joined the
Inverue. The bark. crew
and passengers are now in the custody
of the port warden, and the police made
arrests this afternoon. Capt. Wilcox
gave the following account of the
i>I oh; Eco.
had gone and got out a few weeks
found that the first mate spent all the
time he was on watch talking to Mrs.
Armitage.' and when he was off watch
he spent most of his time
IN HER CABIN.
This was going on when Armltage
would be asleep OH deck. l told the
mate that when he was Oft duty he
could do as he pleased; but when he
was ON watch he must attend to his
work and do what he was paid for.
Then the trouble began. The mate and
Armitage got the crew to side with
them and the only men l could depend
OH were the second mate ahd the car.
penter. Things got so that l had to put
some Of the men in irons.
"Things were in this uncomfortable
state when my wife was taken sick on
Friday, the Sth inst. She was no. very
ernoon. On Sunday morning l went for
Armltage. He came ard said he would
! have to operate OH her. When l saw
him handle the instruments knew he
was no doctor, and l told him SO.
MY wife was then under chloroform,
and | could do nothing, and after he
had butchered her they overpowered
| me and
PUT ME IN IRONS
| iD the forecastle. This was on Monday,
/ the l1th Instant. In the afternoon they
brought the body Of the dead baby 10
| grating for me TO look at. A
few hours later they dropped
it overheard. On the morning
of last Saturday they came to me and
said if would forgive them and promise
to make no report against them they
would let NE out. l agreed, and at 10
a. IN. they set me at liberty. l at once
went 10 my poor wife. When reached
her side she was unconscious, and at
$50 Saturday night she died. The men
have got up all sorts of stories. but what
l tell you is the plain and untarnished
| truth.''
The sailors, headed by the first mate,
have drawn up series of charges
against the captain. which they say they
will lay before the British consul.
They say that he drank to excess during
the voyage, and abused them Oh various
! occasions.
| Alexander, or Armitage, as he now
claims himself, was never doctor, but
worked i'll cigar store in Melbourne.
He and the woman with him are under
the surveillance of the police, pending
the result OF the Inquest.