The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-07-23
MYSTERY OF THE DEEP
FINGER OF SUSPICION POINTS
 FIXEDLY AT MITE BRAM.

It Was Probably He Who Murdered Cap-
 tain Nash, Mrs. Nash and the Second
 Mate of the Barkentine Herbert Fuller
 Crew All Under rArrest-Passenger Monok
 Tells His Story-Rigid Inquiry to be
 Made-Bram Silent.
 Halifax, July 22.-The intense excite- ment occasioned yesterday by the news of the triple murder on the barkentine Herbert Fuller, the arrival of the bod les of the victims and the arrest of all on board the vessel has in no wise abated The streets around the police station where those in custody are held were to-day crowded with people. The remains of Captain Nash and his wife have been sealed up and await the ar- rival of the dead captains brother
 At Il o'clock, the hour at which the magistrates investigation was to com mence, it was announced that Medical Examiner Films report on the post mortem examination was not ready. and that the inquiry would not be pro- ceeded with to-day. The story that Leslie Monck, the passenger, told is as follows:
 When Mrs. Nash's screams awoke Monck he saw something was wrong. He loaded his revolver and went out in the companionway. He did not see any person as he emerged from his room He took look into the chart room and saw the captain lying on the floor, and he also observed blood He thought some nishap had befallen the captain and went forward to call the captains wife to come to the assistance of her husband. On reaching the spot horrible and a sickening sight met his gaze. The horribly mutilated body of the captains wife lay on the floor. It then dawned on Monck what had happened to the captain, and he hasti- ly proceeded to the second mates roonl only to find that he, too, had been mur- dered Monck now trenlbled with fear as he did not know what to do or how mapy O. the crew were implicated in the tragedy. At first he started aft and was about to 50 on deck, but then he thought that the murderer might be waiting for him to come up and kill him. So he retraced his footsteps and went up the forward companionway No sooner had he placed his head above than a billet of wood was hurled at him by Mate Braln. Monck levelled his revolver and Bran begged him not to shoot. Monck was suspicious of the mate. but he did not l say anything to him. The crew were then aroused and were mortified at Iwhat had taken place After consult ation had been held Wheelman Brown was placed in irons and the mate as sunaed command ow the vessel, Sus- picion, however, rested very much upon l the mate.
 | Monck says he and Charles Spencer, the colored steward, talked the matter over afterwards and that they proceed 1 ed to look for the captains revolver, which up to that time could not be l found. They searched the chart room, but 1t was not there. Then they look | ed in the captains room in which Manck had been sleeping, and it was | found underneath the mattress. It was loaded when they found it, and Spencer took 1t to protect himself against any further outbreak as Monck had his own revolver.
 l Both Monck and Spencer seemed to gain in each others confidence and they worked together. Spencer, who is evidently a very shrewd man, took in | the situation minutely and kept close watch on all that was going on. Spen- cer was very suspicious of the mate, and he frequently told Monck of it.
 Monck says the mate was very cool all | through the whole affair. Bram sug- 1 gested that the bodies be thrown over board, and the cabin and rooms clean ed up, but this Spencer and Monck de- clined to allow being done. After the
 bodies had been removed from the rooms Monck locked the doors and took the keys and kept them himself.
 The mate, Monck says, never touched the bodies, but others helped fix them up and put them in the small boat l During the morning after the murder Spencer and Mate Bran1 had a conver-
 sation in the course of which Bram asked him if certain washing powder was good. to wash clothing with and | Spencer said it was, as his wife used it at home.
 ! Later on Spencer watched Bram and
 he saw him get a shirt, which he wore on the night of the murder and put ii in a bucket of water and throw cuan- tity of this washing powder on top Spencer became more suspicious. Nc steps were taken at that time, however
 but the same close watch was kept or the mate The mate had full charge o1
 the ship all this time and was navigat-
 ing her, but Monck and Spencer did moi think he was steering right.
 Monck consulted the chart and found
 that the mate was taking the ship of her course and was heading In another
 direction altogether. Monck and Spen-
 cer then came to the conclusion that they would have to place the mate T irons, and Spencer first seized hold ot
 Bram. while Monck stood over hin, | with a loaded revolver. The mate did not resist All hands were ordered or deck and remained there all the time
 as it was feared that some of then
 were in league with Bram. Monch | consulted the chart again and found that the nearest port was Bermuda
 but as the wind was not favorable foi
 sailing in that direction the port oi St. Tohn's or Halifax would have to be
 made for. and 1t was decided to head for Halifax. Bram, when searched af- | +a,. baipp mt i1, irons had an old rusty