The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1896-01-07

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We sailed the following day,which
was Wednesday, and the last thing
1 heard before leaving Liverpool was
that poor Rupert's execution had
been fixed Ger Thursday in the next
week.
We had heavy cargo Of goods
and a lot of passengers, but ] tell
you my heart seemed heavier when
we started on that voyage than the
ship, cargo, passengers and all
The Monico was considered fast
vessel at that time She generally
took just over seven days to do tho
passage, and we were due in New
York on the Wednesday evening be-
fore Rupert's execution.
Everything went we'll till the
Monday afternoon, when one of the
steerage passengers, a man named
Charles Cappermole, fell down q
hatchway, breaking his backs and re-
ceiving internal injuries from
which the doctor said he was bound
to die within four OF five hours. it
was very sad of course, but couldn {
be helped, and although anything of
the sort puts gloom over the ship
/ was too much engrossed in my own
trouble to think much of it. But
just after one bell (half past 81 the
captain came to me.
"Sparton, he said, "you were
telling me about the trouble your
sisters fiance had got into. It's g
most extraordinary thing, but this
man Cappermole has been telling the
doctor tale about his having shot
his fathers landlord in Yorkshire,
and that he believes this accident is
a Judgment on him. / have seen
him, and he says the name of the
man he murdered was Rowling,
which is the name you mentioned, 7
think, and if you will come with me
to the hospital, where the poor
wretch is lying, you can hear his
yarn for yourself. "
was thunderstruck. / got the
Ithird officer to take my place for a
short time and hurried off to the
side of the injured man.
His statement was somewhat ram
bling, but with the help of clergy
man who was a passenger we re-
duced it to writing in a tangible
shape, and it was about something
like this;
ST, Charles Cappermole, lately
residing at Martens Hole, near
Doncaster, Yorkshire, but now a
passenger on board the steamship
Monico Captain Marner) in mid-At-
lantic, having met with an accident
by falling down hatchway, and be-
ing, as i we'll know, within a short
time of death, do make this solemn
statement and declare the same to
be true, so help me God:
81 am farm laborer and until re-
Gently was living with my father
and mother at Marten s Hole, where
my father rented small farm I'M
der Mr.. Jonathan Rowling. The
same farm had been in the posses
sion of my father all his life and of
his father before him, and it was
our whole living.
"Mr. Jonathan Rowling had dis
agreement with my father last year
but one just before Michaelmas
about some hedges which he insisted
my father should renew, but which
had always been replanted before
that time at the expense of the land
lord. My father refused to replant
them at his own expense, and Mr..
Rowling give him notice to suit,
which expired at Michaelmas last,
and he subsequently turned my par.
ents and myself out Of the farm in
the middle of winter.
my mother was in very feeble
| and delicate state of health, and the
eviction caused her death, and my
father, being broken hearted and
ruined, was compelled to 60 into the
workhouse.
81 determined to emigrate ia
America, and with the assistance OF
benevolent society / obtained my
passage money and outfi and enough
cash in my pocket to prevent my be-
ing turned back as pauper on land
ing in the United States. booked
my passage in the steamship Moni
co, but before starting on the voyage
, saw my father in the workhouse.
His misfortunes had so shattered
him that he was dying, and exasper
ated and filed with Indignation | de
| termined to be revenged on Mr.
, Rowling, who bad boon tho cause o
my mothers and my fathers DEATH
J and my ruin and emigration.
I 81 had bought revolver to tax