The San Francisco call., 1895-11-16

! though the heat was almost unbearable,
in an endeavor to make him give some
kind of a confession about the attempt to
fire the ship
! The island of Guam is one of the La
| drones, and it is to this island that the
Spanish Government sends many OF its
political eXiles. AS to himself Bresling
says he was practically shanghaied away
! from San Francisco when the Gayhead
! left here, and he says lIe was never given a
chance to sign her articles. He charges
the agent of the bark, J. A. Magee, with
refusing to let him come ashore here to
ship properly, and accuses the captain of
not permitting him to sign articles at Hon
olulu.
While the men were in Jail at Honolulu
on the charge of disobeying orders, they
state, an attempt was made to Scuttle the
ship by boring holes in her. This could
not have been done by them, they say, be-
cause after the fire careful examination
of the vessel was made and there were no
holes in her then. The captain was ashore
when the discovery of the holes occurred,
too.
They also give a report of free fight
that took place on board the ship, as they
afterward learned, while they were in jail,
in. which the principal combatants were
Second Mate Garvin, the fourth mate, Ca
brazil, the cooper and one of the boat
steerers.
Evidently from what Ekerenkutter tells,
the Hawaiian authorities did not attach
much Importance to Captain Shorey' s
charge of arson there. He said last night
that Marshal Hitchcock of Honolulu told
him if he or any of the other men tried to
get away from the ship no effort whatever
would be made by the police to stop them,
and that when he told Hitchcock he in
tended to see the Consul, Hitchcock re-
piled: 'If you can't get away from. the
ship without bothering with the Consul
you are not much good"
The lay the men shipped on from here
was on shares. Each was to receive part
equal to one e-hundred-and-s -seventieth.
The cargo will probably be marketed for
between $4,000 and $4,000. However,
they say they do not know what amount
may be coming to them, because their due
bills are pretty high.
They. were charged exorbitant prices,
they claim. for whatever they wanted-$5
for shirt, $5 for an oilskin, and so or.
1t was to ascertain what their due
bills would be, they said, that they went
to Mr.. Lahin's Office, where they were ar
rested.
II do not know why we should be
charged with this crime" said Ekerenkut-
ter last night in his cell, Bresling cor
roborating his every word. "for | was
down below sick when the fire was discov-
cred; aud Rigby was there, too. We were
watchinga game of poker. Rigby is sort
of tale bearer, and once when we were
In the Arctic seas, to show you what kind
of q man he is, he beat two white men for
trying to escape from his ship.
1--WE never made any attempt to leave
our vessel and did not anticipate any ar
rest here, for we did not try to get away.
Captain Shorey treated us fairly we'll all
during the cruise after the fire, but | un
derstand he signed a guaranty at Homo
lulu to treat us well. He and Consul Mills
had some hot words at Honolulu because
the Consul refused to prosecute US. We
could easily have got away from the ship
at China Bay if we had wanted to-"
Shorey was formerly captain OF the bark
Andrew Hicks. The Gayhead was not
listed with the fleet until this year.