The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-18
MANY KINDS OF A SKIPPER.
The Girl Flea From Home, Jumped
Into Trousers, Went With a Man,
Stole a Yacht and Got in Jail.
From the New Yorlr World

Stole a Yacht and Got in Jail.
From the New York World
Riverhead, Qougue, Shinnecock Hills,
Southampton anG Cedar Island, L. l.,
were all mixed up in this story yesterday
morning and until they got disentangled
the eastern end of Long Island was agog
with tales of disguised female pirates,
undisguised male pirates, mad hunting
of them in Peconic bay by armed officers
in steam launch and surrender after
fierce combat.
l. When all these places with the queer
names finally got disentangled, however,
the plratlcal part of the story disap-
peaped, and the sad remnants were only
a disgraced young woman in male attire
and sadder and wiser young man. The
latter was last night considering the err
ror of his ways in the Riverhea1 Jail, and
the young woman has been sent back
home.
The beginning of this yarn of piracy
was last Monday morning, when j. p.
WEIGH, a summer resident of Shinnecock
Hills, cast his weather eve over the waters
OF PeGonlc bay to look at his little sloop
yacht, and, in the words of Quogue
aboriginal, when he saw her he saw she
wasn't there Directing naturally, TO
her absence, he sent word in hot haste TO
OnCl III ~ DLlGu, duu SLTdlRlbWdY all The
baymen in PecOnic bay were alarmed,
and began looking for the sloop, melted
further by the promise of reward. Tues
DAY morning Deputy Sheriff Robert j.
Nugent of this village was started on
the chase by report made by some bay
men that they had seen the yacht near
Sag Harbor, in Peconic bay.
They said that two men were aboard of
her, and that she was sailing about in an
r6nflU aITn1nSc fa ehinD Tho
sheriff went to Sag Harbor with visions
of bloody ARRAYS before him, but when he
got there he found that the yacht hadn't
waited for him This impolite action an
noyed him, and he took Uncle Sam into
partnership with Long Island justice by
borrowing the steam launch belonging to
the custom house at Sag Harbor. Then
he went a-cruising for the pirates. Tues
day night he sighted the sloop off Cedar
Island, little spot lying between Pc
comic and Glrdiner's BAYS.
The deputy sheriff gritted his teeth and
prepared for death, while Mr. WEIGH.
who was with him, pulled out huge re.
volver. The launch overhauled the yacht
"Heave to- shouted NuCent jumping on
board. with his revolver ready for des-
perate deeds. Peconic bay was not red
dened with gore, however. The two fig
ures on the yachts deck behaved most
unpiratically, and one of the two
screamed shrilly. AT that scream WEIGH S
revolver and Nugents Jaw both dropyed
"A gal, by the great quahog of Quogue,"
said Nugent.
Yes, it's girl, tremblingly answered
the two pirates.
She dropped the cigarette which she
had been smoking with abandon and ran
into the cabin Her fellow-bUccaneer
who was a real man, abandoned himself
10 grief and weak prOtestations of in
nocence Presently the girl reappeared
in her proper feminine garb, and they
were formally put under arrest They
were taken to Greenport, where a large
Long Island delegation received the fierce
pirates with thrilling applause. Yester-
day morning they were transported in
triumph, amid the unres trained JOY of all
the clam Spaniards of PeCouic bay, to
Riverhead. where again all able inhabi-
tants hailed them Joyfully.
In the court house there they were
charged with, "To-wit, stealing one sail
ing vessel, value over S25, and then they
were taken TO Quogue, the great capital
of Clam county, whose coat. of-arms is
a clam couchant with a clam-rake sin
ister, and whose magistrate is Justice
Griffin, who fears no other man nor clam.
He was prepared for them. and had all
the laws on piracy at his fingers ends
The girl. who was only 10 years old, and
VINO COulu nave Dtbu very muCn DCbleI
looking than she was without thereby
becoming a great beauty, said she was
Grace Smith, the daughter of carpen-
ter in Southampton, l.. l.
Now great many people in the court
room knew Miss Smith. and they didn't
90 out OF their way to give her tattering
testimonials as to character. They only
smiled and said things. The male
prisoner said he was Frank Parker,
% years old of Brooklyn, Mass, and
that he had been working until recently
as station agent ia Shinnecock Hills. He
was plucky enough TO shoulder all blame
himself and 10 absolutely decline 10 say
anything about the girl. He claimed that
he had merely taken the yacht thought
lessly for a sail, and that he couldn't
have stolen her even had he so desired,
because he didn't know how TO sail her.
The girl said that they had gone out driv-
ing on Sunday and that at night they
had walked 70 the beach, and seeing the