New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-01-11
On A PIRATICAL CRUISE.
rr,r SCHOONER CRYSTAL HAS KID
MAPPED A DEPUTY-sHERIFF.


EFFORTS TO CAPTURE THE
VESSEL AND HER CREW
CONNECTICUT OFFICERS
or THE LAW IL
HOT CHASE
o,o -aes "low. black rakish-looking
.soorer" fving a Jolly Roger" cruising about
,.rboro between the Kill Won Kull and Mon
,,, Point that is the schooner Crystal and
,,.r gunner Hugh McRoberts. of Tompkinsville.
. will extend the hospitality of the Nauti-
, Hotel TO any one who Will return her TO her
o,oborare of his coal yard. right next to the
-, s,ation. Up to the week before Christ
,os tho CRYSTAL was an incfensiVe vessel en-
nr,d IN the exhilarating occupation of carry
- hrict from, some little port in New-Jersey to
o.7o ,,,rdrod-and-thrty- -ffth-st.. North River
Now she is an outlaw on the face of the deep
having run away with deputy-sheriff from
>-rordor Conn and being without any
,, rarar showing her right To sail the seas
- a.. tho American flag. The Crystal is COM
.ordod bv CAPTAIN Patrick Ward. and carries
=. orov, of three men. she is of a. tons register
tor two or three months before Christmas Mr.
,,poberts her owner had received no income
from the schooner. and had stron% suspicious
regarding the sobrety and gel .aI nprlSht
walk in life Of Captain Ward. on the ThuTS-
ao,, hoforo Christmas he received word that the
sohoon,r was dischareing her cargo of brick at
One-hundred-a Land -thirty-ffth-st. and North
piver Her license mad expired and MI Nc
toherts had made up his mind he would get
q now captain He therefore. went up to the
schooner and ordered Captain Ward to brlhs
her down to Tompkinsvie. Ward SAID All
right. he would do Days passed. ana the
ala not annear. Mr.. McRoberts could get no
track of his schooner. She had sailed away
from One-hundred-an nd -thirty-ffth-st, and
where she had gone only Neptune ana the sea
nvmphs knew. He studied the maritime re-
ports and the newspapers carefully but iouhd
no record OF her having arrived anywhere
Finally last Friday he got a dispatch from
Sheriff Bailey. at New-London. saying that the
CRYSTAL was there. and had been libelled for a
debt of s13
Now it seems that last spring when the Crys-
tai was cruising up the Sound. she caush'
gale which carried away her foremast' ana s"e
put into New-London for repairs. The p'il ioi
repairs amounted to several hundred do"a's
which Mr. McRoberts paid. There was "A Dill
Of SIS extra for new rigging when 'ap'a"
Ward refused to certify TO. and therefore MI
McRoberts did not pay. After her repairs a'
New-Ilondon the schooner came back 10 lohP
kinsvi,le and resumed her brick trade with the
Jerseys until as has been stated. she suddenly
disappeared from One-hundred- and thirty fifth
st.
SCHOONER AND DEPUTY-sHERIFF GONE.
When. on Friday last. Mr.. McRoberts received
word that the schooner had been seized. ne sent
n can,ain and crew TO New-London with money
TO nav the biz and costs and with orders TO
TOmIkllSNl
When Mr. McRobertss envoy arrived at New
London he paid the bill. and he and Sherin
Railey went down TO release the schooner Now
Mr.. Bailey had put aboard the schooner ms
deputy, man named Dunbar VINO was sup
posed TO hold the vessel in the name OF the law
When Mr. McRobertss captain ana ere" ana
the sheriff went down 70 the harDor OF New
London Friday afternoon to release the schooh-
er they found that she had departed and no
man knew whittier she had gone. She nad
slipped out at night carrying the dcputy-sherin
with her. and sailed away on a cruise against
1.-The peace and dignity Of the state ana the
statute in the case made and provided.
Mr.. McROberts sent out general alarm along
Long Island Sound for his lost and erring
schooner but no word was received from her
until Tuesday night, when he received postal
card dated at College Point, which read fol-
lows: "Sir. the schooner Crystal is al College
Point at p m. this day. January l. 1895 Don't
know how long she will be here. am watch
Very truly yours. L. ID. Dunbar"
On Wednesday Mr. McRoberts was unable TO
secure a captain and crew 10 20 up and take
charge Of the schooner, but he got them by
yesterday morning and sent them up TO College
Point. When they got there the crystal had
again disappeared She had put into College
Point for a few hours and then sailed away
again. Yesterday morning Mr.. McRoberts re-
ceived a letter from Sheriff Bailey saying that
Dunbar's wife, Of NewLOndOn had received a
postal card from him, stating that the Crystal
Of N ar nat all -
The sheriff said that h. had secured papers 10
extradite Captain Ward and the crew Of the
Crystal, and asked Mr. Mchoberts' II ne Gou,a
find his vessel TO have all the men on board ar
rested and held until he could get here with the
papers 10 take them back to CON
necticut and have them tried for running away
with the dcputy-sherH
PERHAPS THEY HAVE SAILED FAR AWAY.
Up to a late hour last night Mr.. McRoberts
had not been able to hear anything Of the
Whereabouts Of his schooner. For all that he
knows. Captain Ward may have set sail with the
deputy-sheriff for the South Sea islands. Mr..
AIcRoberts SAYS that Wa.d must have had about
$500 In his possession when he started off on his
unlawful cruise As Mr. McRoberts was telling
his story yesterday the big cruiser New-fork
could be seen from the windows Of his office lying
at anchor off Tompkinsvie. Il wish" said he,
that the New-York would 80 and seize my
schooner before she goes to the West Indies
IL revenue cutter or "A man-of-War fa4is III
with the Crystal she will be seized There are
several theories to how the dcputy-shcrEt,
Dunbar happened to b. taken away On the pirate
schooner One Is that he was locked in the
caDln ana taken to .gainst his VIII, being
allowed to send the two postal cards from Col
lege Point after they had been read and super
vised by Captain Ward Another is that he
went along willingly liking the g)Od-fellowship
and freedom from restraint that prevailed aboard
the Crystal. That is hardly probable, however
as he is a man OF family and is said TO own a
house in NewLondon.
NewLondon. Conn, Jan. 10.-Captain Lem
Dunbar keeper on the stolen schooner Crystal
who was taken off with the vessel by CAPTAIN
Ward and crew after ii had been attached for |
debt. returned here to-day. having left the Crys-