Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1894-07-05
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WuaS I'LL THIS was ch1ld'S play &c
what was to come. He had sixteen
hundred miles to run. He was loaded I
heavily with coal and the gold had
weighted his vessel too seriously to
fhink OF getting anything like the
speed ont Of her that he desired. She
was schooner-rigged and there was q
stir wind blowing from the northeast. :,
That was In his favor. But he calcu-
dated a IL one Of the westward-bound
ocean gxeyhounds spoke the C~orinthian
and got her story, the news would
reach New York and set the telegraph
u operation much too 500 for his
safety. He had informed himself of
Ahe position of all the government yes
sells and he knew that there was at
Aass accounts a fast cruiser in Mobile
bay. He, therefore, calculated as close
~ o. he could the chances of the Cor
anthian being intercepted; for, dis
Abled as she was, 1t would be her cap
Aafn's plan to put her in the route of a
westward-bound steamship.
! He betrayed his anxiety to the cap
cain, but that parsonage filed himself
with Medford rum and insisted that the
worst part Of the job was don
The first thing that Hendricks did
was to throw his guns overheard to-
Rether with all his superhuous shot
and ammunition. He hen got up steam
and stood of In Q southeasterly direc-
Eion until the Corinthian was hull
down, when he shifted his course and
a1ent directly west.
: There was another source of anxiety
In his crew, but here his matchless
cunning and self-reliance stood him
well In hand. He knew what he could
DO with them if he got within American
ysters. and they were equally anxious
with himself to get off the high seas
&c blew q stiR gale all the first night
end HIS vessel labored badly. Finally
84 took his captains advice, which was
20 ave his coal till he wanted to show
his heels to something and take it easy
under sail. The consequence was that
IL was nearly six days before he struck
The Gulf stream and he had not seen a
puff Of black smoke on the horizon.
He had provided himself with four
boets, and managed to land thirty Of
bis men with . Thousand dollars of
American gold eagles in each mans
pocket, at San Augustine In the night.
They were as anxious as he to part
company, and with a thousand dollars
every man Of them felt as rich as his
leader. The moment he had reduced
bis crew, he clapped on steam, vent
down the coast and rounded Cape Fear
well to the south. He Is known to have
landed Q few more men somewhere on
-the coast of southern Georgia, similarly
paid off In gold. He then sailed south
and laid off and on for six hours, and
HpaIly met two stoutly built fishing
pirogues into which with bis crew he
transferred his plumber and then sank
khS Sap Pedro. taking pains to arrange
10 that much OF her recognizable ma
ke51sl would foek
9Tfe specie being carefully concealed
tn&6e holds OF these fishing vessels and
covered With SEQ grass. they set out
hofth In pleasant weather, and arrived
P& the coast Of Alabama on or about
che 18th, and proceeded leisurely
Ii the ordinary manner of fishing
vessels at that season. the crew catch
Ing p large quantity Of fish which they
packed In over the cargo. At Bayou
Eafouche Hendricks got rid of twenty
more men who had directions to sep
srate and rendezvous a month later at
Apoint on h Georgia coast where he
had taken on his ammunition, it being
understood that he was going to make
for Panama with his %pirogues and
cargo.
4uSLcAd Oh 0O1uB tu1ot AS "SAV
straight to New Orleans and hauled
both vessels up at Algiers where his
remaining crew were kept aboard, and
for two days disposed Of their fish.
These men were evidently picked and
retained tor their reliability and were
thoroughly coguizant Of the whole
scheme.
Hendricks managed to arrive in New
OySans a. If by rail-, and registered at
che st. Charles as Archibald Hendricks,
OF Tennessee. AS be Yves already
known by that name at the hotel and
was known to be interested In some
land Improvement scheme, his subse-
Quent operations attracted nc suspi-
atom His captain and all but four OF
the men he'd been sent north in differ
ent directions to meet at the Laran
portal and the two badly smelling
pirogues that had slipped into AL
8iers lay among Q lot Of old craft in an
out Of the way place, securely guarded
by the four men.
The moment Hendricks got to the no.
tel. he was able to learn all the facts
Of the search. The Corinthian had
been two days and a half at sea under
steamship, the Anglo-Saxon, and com
kOA p4O AO"o~ GS Nuo ~
days and q half before the Anglo
Saxon reached New York and the new
of the robbery preceded her from Eng
land by cable just SIX hours. Twelve
hours elapsed after the reception o.
khe news before the navies Of England
and America were looking for the Sal
Pedro. Hendricks smiled as be say
how narrow a margin he had sailed on
before the search was well under way
he had been in the gulf and tn,
iwreckage Of the San Pedro, which b.
rwas sure would come to light was, h
thought, q fairly good chance Of per
plex1ty and delay on the one hand t.
the pursuers and a safe location of tn
Plunder mp to the moment of transfe
pn tho other. The betrayal of tina
transfer depended on the twenty-fv
men whom he had still in his servic
and upon whom he believed he cou1
depend.
Hendricks was too shrewd a man no
to see that his scheme however cur
ming would only hold for a time. FL
knew perfectly well that the sailor
whom he had got rid Of, would procee
Immediately to get drunk and In thei
Secklessness expose the plot up TO
certain point. But he believed thei
stories under whatever promise o
pardon or compulsion of punishmen
could get no farther than the state
ment that the San Pedro had sailed 70
Panama or Venezuela. The knowledg
OF the transfer to the pirogues wa
locked mp In his own immediate con
federates. This fact he Teasone'
would not prevent the ultimate discov
cry pf the real truth. but it Y9uld de