Arizona republican., 1896-07-29
MONCK'S SAIL OF TERROR The Lone Passenger of
 the Barkentine.
He Could Navigate a Vessel
 Himself.
With the Stewards Aid the Alleged MurderersWas Put in Irons and
 Landed in Prison.

HALIFAX, July 2S.-The intense excitement occasioned by the news of the triple murder on the barkentine Herbert Fuller, the arrival of the bod ies of three victims, and the arrest of all on board the vessel, has in nowise abated.
 The story that Leslie Monck, the passenger on the Herbert Fuller, will tell on the stand will be substantially as follows:
 When Mrs. Nash's scream awoke Monck he realized that something was wrong. He loaded his revolvers and went out in the companiOnway. He did not see any person as he emerged from his room. He took look into the chart room and saw the captain lying on the floor, and he also ob served blood. He went forward to call the captains wife to come to the assistance of her husband. On reach ing the room horrible sight met his gaze. The mutilated body of the cap tain's wife lay on the floor. It then dawned on Monck what had happened to the captain, and he hastily proceed ed to the second mates room, only to i find that he, too, had been murdered. Monck retraced his footsteps and went up the forward companionway 1 No sooner had he placed his head above than a billet of wood was hurled at him by Mate Bram Monck 1evelled his revolver at the mate and the latter begged him not to shoot The crew was then aroused, and after consulta- tion Wheelman Brown was placed in irons. Suspicion, however, rested very much upon the mate. Monck says he and Charles Spencer, the colored Stew ard, talked the matter over afterward
 Both seemed to gain in each other $ confidence and they worked together
 Spencer was very suspicious of the mate, and he frequently told Monck oi it. Bram suggested that the bodies be thrown overboard and the cabin and rooms cleaned up, but this Spencer and
 Monck declined to allow being done
 The mate never touched the bodies
 but others helped fix them up and pu1
 them in the small boat
 During the morning after the murder Spencer and Mate Bram had a conver
 sation, in the course of which Bran
 asked him if a certain washing powder
 was good to wash clothing with, an(
 Spencer said it was Later on Spencer
 watched Bram, and he saw him get shirt which he wore on the night O the murder and put it in bucket O water and throw a large quantity o this washing powder on top of it. No steps were taken at that time however, but the same close watcl was kept on tlhe mate. The mate hat full charge of the ship all this time and was navigating for himself, bu Monck and Spencer did not think h was steering her for the nearest port : Monck consulted the chart and foun that the mate was taking the vesse :, off her course and was heading in an other direction altogether.
 Monck and Spencer then came to tn
 conclusion that they would have t
 place the mate in irons, and Spence
 seized hold of Bram, while None Q stood over him with loaded revolver
 All hands were ordered on deck an
 remained there all the time, as it wa l. feared that some of them were i a league with Mate Bram Monck cor - suited the chart again, and it was de F. cided to head for Halifax.
 7 Bram is the only one of the ere } who keeps his mouth closed, and whe n questioned regarding the affair plead V that he knows nothing concerning tn tragedy.