Connecticut western news., 1896-07-23
MUTINY AND MURDER
THREE PERSONS KILLED WITH AN AK ON THE HERBERT FULLER.

The Captain, His Wife and the Second Mate Were the victims-The First Mate Suspected - The Statement of Lester
 Monk, a PAssenEer.
 HALIFAX, July ee A bout half a cen tury ago the ship Galadin was brought in- to Halifax, a mntiny having occurred on board. during which the captain, mate and six others were murdered. Never since until now has there been much excitement in this city over murder on the high sens Around the clubs. at the hotels. on the wharves, in the streets, nothing Is talked about but the tragedy on the American barkentine Herbert Full Ter. bound from Boston to Rosario with a cargo of lumber.
 The three victims were murdered early on Tuesday, July l4. and six men of the crew and a passenger from Boston brought the vessel to this port with Mate Bram and Seaman Brown in chains.
 The bodies of the horribly mutilated victims-Captain c. l. Nash of Earring ton, Me; his wife, Laura. and August W. Blandberg, second mate-were removed to the morgue. The stream of people snx- ions to sec them was excluded from the | deadhouse, but great crowd hung about the place till late at night
 At the police station the crowd was even larger. and there were loud generations | against the guilty man or men. The sus- | pected murderer, Mate Thomas Bram, Is kept in an isolated oell and so Is Seaman | Charles Brown, the first man upon whom suspicion fell, but the others, except Les. ter Monk, who was a passenger, are kept | in cells off the main lookup.
 Lester Monk, the passenger, although under arrest. Is kept in the office of the chief of police in the presence of detailed officer. His father is expected from Bos- ton tonight The eight prisoners are | Thomas Bram, mate, West Indies; Charles Spencer, colored, steward; Oscar Ander- sen, seaman, Sweden; Charles Brown, seaman, Holland; Luke wiessner. sea man, Sweden; Nj. J. Steer, New Jersey; Frank Loheneo, seaman, France; Lester Monk, passenger, Boston.
 Monks Statement It appears that First Mate Thomas Bram was the murderer. A reporter was able to get a statement from Lester Monk. He says:
 "At the time of the murder occupied an apartment between the ohartroom and the captain's cabin. To the right of the cabin was the room occupied by the seo- ond mate. At the time of the murder the captain was In the ohartroom.
 "We all retired about II o'clock on the night of Monday, July 1s. Toward 1 o'clock on Tuesday morning was awak- ened by screams. I thought 1 might have been dreaming and turned over on my side. A few seconds after heard another scream. I realized that the alarm came from Mrs. Nash.
 "I grabbed my revolver and took time only to put on my trousers and ran out, with the revolver In my hand, to ascertain the cause. I had to pass the captain s chartroom. The light was burning saw the captain lying on the floor.
 "I heard footsteps In the companion way and followed them to the deck There I confronted the first mate. He had bil- | let of wood in his hand and assumed a threatening attitude. leveled my revolv- CT at him and asked him who had com. mitted the murder.
 "The first mate said he did not know, | and we decided to investigate. All hands were called up. The oolored steward and and the mate decided to put Charles Brown. who was at the wheel at the time, | in Irons | The First Mate Accused
 "In the morning made the following report in the logbook, viz.:
 | ".On this day the steward of the said | that the sailors all came and made an open statement to him in reference to one of the sailors, whose name is Charles | Brown. The statement was as to his guilt in regard to the morder which took place on board said vessel. At once got each mans statement. On the strength of these statements we concluded to put him in irons at daybresk. At7A m. sll hands were mustered aft and thor. oughly searched. and not other weapons were given them but their knives.
 Eaoh man was then placed certain distance apart from eanh other until after hours. Myself. the steward, and made were stationed amidship and good look. out kept until daylight.
 Charles Brown, the seaman who was put In irons made a subsequent state ment, accusing the mate of the murder. He said he saw him kill the captain | through the transom over the ohartroom.
 "The steering of the ship was intrusted to the first mate. The steward. who knew something of navigation, looked at the | compass two days after the murder and said the first mate was not steering the course given him. He was steering the ship in an opposite direction. This looked suspicious, and the steward and myself, after consultation. decided to have the l taken unawares and placed in Irons. The steward then navignted the vessel to a port off Halifax harbor. We tried to got the ship back to Boston, but owing to the wind at the time we were obliged to make for the Nova Scotian coast, and brought up near Sable island.
 We drifted about in the fog for some time and finally saw pilot, who brought the Fuller into this port.
 We kept the bodies for three days, as long as we could. The odor of deoomposi- ton then became unbearable and we do. oided to place them in boat and cover them with canvas.
 "The boat was towed behind the vessel. The experience on board was enough to make the stoutest heart quail, and it was a great relief to my pent up feelings when we came to harbor in Halifax"
 Real Estate Dealer Fails. | TUSKHANNocK, Pa, July 2e.-Dr. K. H. Wells of Masnoppen, who was thought