The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-19
CRUELTY PASSING BELIEF
TERRIBLE TALE or THE CREW OF
 THE SHIP WARRIOR.

the Ocean and Swimming to Land-The
 Officers Treat the Men With Brutality
 Quite Unparalleled-Many of Them
 Marked by the Fangs of the Ferocious
 Hound.
 Boston. Sept. 1S,-The crew of the British ship Warrior which arrived here last night, appeared at the office of the English consul this morning and made charges against the officers of the vessel. All are agreed that they have suffered kicks and blows from the mate, second mate and steward They tell of a savage wolf hound trained to jump on them at the command of the officers and bite them.
 They exhibit scars from blows and bites. They are glad to reach port, and they are reluctant to go back to their vessel, fearing more violence. now that they have brought their grievances to the attention of the consul.
 The Warrior is full-rigged ship of 1,600 tons burden, and halls from Pic tou, N. S. Her captain, A. J. Kitchen, has sailed her twelve years. The crew charges that he has aided and abetted the alleged cruelty or Mate Buchan, Second Mate William Howard and Steward James Mcdonald.
 The ship left Rio de Janeiro Decem- Der and went to Cibu, in the Philip pine islands, for a cargo of hemp.
 When the vessel had been a few days out of Rio de Janeiro it is alleged that one of the crew, Martin Viverson, was attacked with a sheath knife by the steward, who also set the dog on him and kicked him in the ear. Viverson now claims to be deaf on account of that treatment and exhibits his numer- ous scars. The crew assert that the boatswain who died from a fever, as the captain supposed was buried alive.
 Just before he was sewn up in the canvas they say he was seen to move his head and roll his eyes. The cap tain, it is stated, did not see the man, and under the direction of the other officers the body was cast into the wa ter in spite of the protests of the crew.
 At Cibu another member of the crew, Harry Nelson, says that he was attack ed by the second officer and chased with knife. Nelson jumped overheard and the second officer threw the knife after him. He swan to the mainland and laid his case before the British consul the next day, but that official could do nothing for him, and Nelson was obliged to return to the ship.
 The crew have some money due them, but the captain says he will not pay off ypfil 10 tro bac been settled. The men want to be paid off at once.
 The crew did not mutiny on the voy- age, and claim that they bore their al- legged hard treatment patiently, hoping for redress as soon as they reached Boston. They say that the dog was as good as three men in keeping them in terror.
 Captain Kitchen came into the Brit ish consul's office this morning while the crew were gathered there T don't know anything about these stories," he said. "The crew gave no signs of dis content during the voyage. Of course I did not go to the forecastle and hear the yarns they were telling there"
 The captain would make no further statement than this.
 "On board ship Warrior. 1S95-6-We beating from the steward and a biting from the dog. His shirt, soaked with blood from his wounds, was torn from his back.
 The following story of the voyage was written by Seaman A. c. White and signed by him and nineteen other members of the crew:
 On board Ship Warrior, 1895-6.-We came on board in Rio de Janeiro on December 3, 1885, and left on December 5, for cargo of manilla, having bal last aboard. The voyage started with the officers cursing and swearing and calling the crew all manner of bad names A few days out some of the men were beaten with fists and kicked The second mate used ropes end on two occasions The captain said sev- eral times: Why don't you take a ropes end or a beiaying pin and knock their d. brains out?'
 After being on board about six weeks the steward assaulted one man, first by taking a sheath knife from his belt, then knocking him down and kicking him in the ribs. The dog bit the man several times.
 "The mate came up from below, shouting, Give 1t to himi The man didn't defend himself. He came to the forecastle with his head covered with blood. and washed himself. He aad two black eyes and four or five dog bites The captain who was reading on the poop, looked up, smiled, and went on with his book. The man was struck on the left ear and has been deaf ever since.
 "The boatswain was laid up four or five weeks with fever, was buried with signs of what some of us thought was life, for just as we were ordered to sew the body up in canvas, he moved his mouth as though gasping for breath, and at the same time opened his eyes. One of the crew said to the second mate, Why, he Is not dead, sir; he has opened his eyes and mouth. No attention was paid and the man was buried without having hardly time to die.
 "The captain did not attend the burial and did not see the body.
 "On the 10th of April the mate beat another man with a club, the shape of a policeman's club, hitting him ter rible blows on the head, chest and other DartS of the body Not content