Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-07-21
The Barkentine Herbert Fuller a
Scene of Crime.
THREE MURDERS COMMITTED ON BOARD
Capt. Nash, His Wife and Second
Officer Killed.
THE NATE IS SUSPECTED

HALIFAX, N. g., July 21.-The barker.
tine Herbert Fuller, Capt. Nash. from Bos.
ton. July 3. for Rosario, put into Halifax
this morning flying the stars and stripes
at half-mast with a black flag Immediately
beneath. This is the signal for 'Inutiny or
beard"
When the Fuller was boarded it wa.
learned that murder had been added te
mutiny, and that Capt. Nash. his wife
Laura, and Second Officer Banberry had
been killed in their hunks while asleep
The murders had been committed with ar
ak. The rooms in which the victims lay
were covered with blood, showing that q
severe struggle had taken place, and tn.
bodies were horribly mutilated. The cook
Jonathan Sheer Of Rosario, suspected the
mate, Thomas Brown, and succeeded ir
placing Brown in irons. and he afterward
ironed the man who was at the wheel q,
the time the murder was committed. =
Upon arrival of tho vessel all on board
iEcluding Frank Monch Of Boston, who was
a passenger, were placed under arrest
The United States consul here has tele
| graphed to Washington for Instructions
pending the receipt of which he has en-
joined all connected with the affair tC
maintain the strictest silence.
Ia view OF these conditions 1t Is difficult
to obtain further facts, but 1t appears that
the murders were committed at o'clock
On the night OF the 18th instant. Captain
Nash and his wife were in their respective
sleeping apartments and Banberry was in
his. which vas feparated from those of
captain Nash and his wife by the room
occupied by Monch. 1t was the first Off
GERS watch. When all was quiet on boa rd
and those below were soundly sleeping the
murderer or murderers crawled aft to the
cabin, descended, and with axes chopped
their victims to death.
The affair became known not long after
ward. Then the cook, a negro. who had
shipped at Rosario, became suspicious of
Mate Thomas Brown, a Nova Scotian, but
placed in irons. The man who was at the
wheel when the murder was committed
was also placed in irons and the ship was
then headed for Halifax.
The bodies of the victims were all placed
In boat and covered with canvas and
were towed behind the vessel. They are
now In charge OF the coroner here. who
III hold an inquest. Police officers have
been placed in charge of the Fuller under
| direction of the United States consul and
nobody Is allowed on board. The Herbert
Fuller halls from Harrington, Me. The
| murdered captain was forty-four years OF
age and his wife thirty-seven.
NEW YORK, July 2l-At the office
of Swan & Son. the New York agents
OF the barkentine Herbert Fuller, II
was learned today that the mate, VINO
is charged with committing the mur
ders, was only shipped at Boston on the
present voyage when the vessel left, or
July 8, for Rosario, and Iothing was known
about him there.
Capt. w. S. Nash of the bark Emita
now lying in this port, the brother of the
| murdered captain, was seen at the office OF
Swan & Son with his wife. He was much
overcome by the shocking news of the
death Of his brother. Instructions had
been sent to Halifax to embalm the bodies
OF his brother and his wife, preparatory to
forwarding them to their late home al Har.
rlngton. Me. and he. with Mr.. John Swan
the senior member of the firm Of Swan &
Son, left on the l o'clock train for Hall.
fax.