The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-28
BROUGHT IN THE PRISONERS.
The Nate and Seamen of the "Her-
bert Fuller" in Boston.

Boston, July 27.-The Plant Line steam
er Halifax. Capt. Pye. from Prince Ed
ward Island and Halifax, arrived this
morning having among the passengers
Mate Bran and the seamen Brown. Stew
ard Spencer, Lester Monks and five sea
men from the barkentine Herbert Fuller.
which put into Halifax Tusiay with Cant
Nash, Mrs. Nash and Second Mate Bram-
befg murdered Officer Thomas Kline Of
HallIaX accompanied the prisoners
and turned them over to Police Cant.
cam OF Division !, who, with forty-fve
men, was at the wharf when the vessel
arrived. II was expected by the police
that large crowd would be present
Ihere We're many there, but there was
no demonstration.
The prisoners were handcuffed. while
Mr.. Monks was allowed to go to his home
The men were taken to Station l and
booked and given breakfast, following
which they were escorted by a sergeant
and a number of officers to the United
States court and arraigned and held for
further investigation.
Lester Monks had returned at this time
and was present with his father
Spencer, the colOred steward, said to-
day: THE morning after the murder
there was no cleW to the murder and ev-
eryone was filled with alarm: but il was
not long before l suspected the mate, be-
cause OF the strange way he acted. He
came TO me weeping and crying and gave
me his revOlved, saying he wanted me TO
keep II for him and protect him. l said:
mo- you keep 1t yourself
But he insisted on my taking it, I
thought II was very strange. We hunted
for the captains revolver, but could not
f1nd 1t. l said Hhe man who killed the
captain has got his revolver. We all stand
IN danger OF being massacred.' We
found the captains gun and urged Mate
Bran to take it over and over again, but
he said: No; it's too heavy And all 1
could say had no effect upon him. 1
thought it was very strange that he who
was left in command of the ship. should
not want to have a weapon to compel the
sailors to obey him"
when did you first suspect the mater"
was asked.
because of the way he acted, and be-
cause 1 saw two spots of blood on his
breeches. / seized him from behind and
told him we should have to put the iron
on him. He said: i am innocent One
OF the sailors, the Frenchman, put the
iron on Bran, while / covered him with
Moncks revolver. / did not draw the
revolver at first, but only when the mate
began to grow ugly"
Where was Moncks at this time?"
HE was looking on. l borrowed his
revolver because 1 did not trust any Of
the crew 1t was pretty hard to tell how
they stood. They did not want to have
the ship steered for Halifax, and l want
ed to signal the pilot boat to get our
course; they did not want me to do it.
They We're always full of whims"
Asked as to whether the cries of Mrs
Nash could have been heard by passen-
ger Moncks, the steward answered he
did not see how it could have been other
wise than that he must have heard them
Concerning the conduct of Brown, the
steward says: He says he saw the mate
peeping in through the window. He must
have known then that the mate was up
to some wrong-doing, for no man of com
mon sense would try to look through the
window to see anything when the vessel
was rolling so, unless he was afraid to
go in the door,"
In reply to repeated concentrations for
his bravery the steward said: "Oh, that
was not any thing, but l do think that
ought to get the insurance money from
the insurance company for bringing the
vessel into port"