The morning times., 1896-07-22
ROBBERY WAS THE motive
Little Light Thrown on the Sea
Murder Mystery.
MUCH MONEY ABOARD
Several Seamen Have Made State
Decline to Make Them Public
Sickening Sight In the Ships Long
Boat.

Halifax, N. s., July 21.-Threc dead
bodies, the result or horrible series Of
n!uruers, weie Drought into this port today
on the barkentine Herbert Fuller, which
suiied from Boston lew days ago.
The three dead persons. whose murder
Is evidently Tie result OF bloody outbreak
on the part uf soine members OF the crew,
are Capi. Nash anu vile anu second Mate
BruEberg.
The shocking triple murder occurred on
the night OF the 3th instant, and the af-
fair Is So far wrapped IN complete mystery,
notwithsta nding that there were seven
other men OH board at the time IL occurred,
besides passenger named Monck, whose
story OF what he could learn after it was
all over is the only narrative, reliable OF
be as 1t may be, that can be asccr-
aimed 50 far.
Monck says lie knew nothing whatever of
the orne until he learned OF it from the
first mate. During the night, he says.
he heani one scream, which he supposed was
uttered by Capt. Nash's wife.
In the morning he went on deck and the
first mate informed Linn that the captain.
his wife and tie second officer had been
murdered in their Eerths, and asked Monck,
who slept in n little cabin between one oc-
cupied by Capt. and Mrs. Nash and one oc-
cupied by the second mate, If he tad been
alarmed by aDythin g during the night.
MONKS STRANGE STORY.
Monck told linn he heard one scream, and
lie had not paid particular attention to
that. Both the captains and second mates
cabins Immediately adJoined that IN which
Monck slept, SO the passenger must have
slumbered deeply or been strangely deaf
to his surroundings not TO have heard some
thing OF what was going on Oh the other
SIDE of the thin partitions.
Quite a fiOtilia OF craft accompanied
the boat containing the corpses 10 the
city wharf. and thousands OF people pressed
forward 10 get look at her load Ut
corpses. The police experienced great
difficulty in keeping the crowd back and
leaving clear space for the undertaken and
his assistants. The top of the boat was
completely covered with a canvas sheet
ing, carefully tied with hawser rope.
II was lashed and re-lashed, and it was
several minutes before it could be opened.
When the boat WAS brought alongside
the wharf the stencil from it was fright
fui, and those nearest the water hastened
away.
As the bodies We're lifted out OF the
boat many of those who remained turned
away, unable to stand the sight.
A SICKENING SIGHT.
The inside OF the boat was covered with
thick slime in which the remains of the
woman and the two men had lain Tor
over week. Decomposition was making
rapid progress. THE bodies were wrapped
III white shrouds, which We're soaked with
slime. salt water, blood, aud decaying
matter. II took twenty minutes to trans
fer them to tire undertakcr's wagon in
which they were driven to the morgue.
Monck, the passenger, Is Harvard
student, and is said to be the son OF q
well-kno WI Bostonian.
Pilot White boarded the barkentine off
Sambro at O'Clock this morning and found
Moncs and the colored steward, Joshua
Spence, in charge. Monck told the
pilot that lie had placed the first mate,
uamed Brain, in irons, and that lie and the
steward took charge. Mouck is well
dressed and OF gentienanly bearing.
1t Is now believed that the motive for
the crime was robbery, as the captain and
Mr.. Mnnck had considerable money with
them.
Bran, the seaman. who was at the wheel
at the time OF the murder. has it is I'M
derstOod, made statement that he saw,
through pane of glass in the cabin, the
captain being struck with an axe or club,
and that he has given to the police the
name Of the party who held the weapon
The police refuse to divul ge the name