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

roads we'll known to me, and from
1 thence on following days to Rudders-
field, Ashton, Manchester. Newton
and Liverpool, from which port I
was to take passage to New York
"In Liverpool heard the murder
spoken of for the first time, and to
my surprise / found that Mr.. RupelS
Rowling, Mr.. Rowling's nephew,
was charged With it. | never
thought for a moment that they
could find him guilty of the murder
he had not committed, and ! took
no steps to let tho truth be known.
When afterward learned he was
1 convicted of the murder and SEN
fenced todeath, IknewI ought to go
back and own the deed and save
him, but could not bring myself to
do so, and went on board tho Mon
leo we'll knowing that was leaving
behind me an innocent man to be
hanged for the murder had COM
mitted. Tho revolver with which I
shot Mr.. Rowling is in my box All
which is true, as ! declare"
Cappermole signed this statement,
and the clergyman, the captain, tho
doctor and myself witnessed it, and
shortly after FIVE bells (half past 10
at night) CappermoleSdie being
buried at sea the next dily, Tuesday.
had been melancholy and de
] pressed without hope hs,ffe==cc, bb; but
now began my anxious time.
! Cappermole's statement was of no
use unless / could get the knowledge
] of it to the authorities in England in
time to stop my friend Rupert's ex-
4 ecution on Thursday morning, and
it was race against time We were
in ordipary coursedue at New York
on Wednesday afternoon about
O'Clock, which would BIO about 8
o'clock at night in England. We
had had favorable weather and had
made good way, and if we kept on
we should be in on time, if not be-
fore, but on Tuesday morning We
ran into dense fog, and our course
was ippeded, and the engines slow
ed down.
| sought the captain and told him
exactly what was depending on our
not losing time. He'was fine fell.
low, was Captain Mariner, ind he
fully sympathized with me. We
debated the matter and considered
it all round for few minutes. To
go full steam ahead was terribly dan
gerous, as the lookout men could
see no distance to speak of owing to
the fog, but the captain at last de-
termined to do it.
''I'll do it, Sparton, he cried. II
feel that this man was sent on board
! ny ship and injured so that he felt
himself dying and bound to confess
by Providence, and if don't try. to
save Rupert Rowling I shall consid-
er I have been the cause of his being
hanged. Ii / do try and anything
happens TO our ship, then may God
preserve us.
To which I answered solemnly,
"Amen.
Rushing off to the chief engineer
I briefly explained matters to him
and gave him the captain orders.
The engineer was big, hard headed
Scotchman, and gripping my hand
in grasp like wise he cried:
"I'll max the ship go, Robert.
But it'll be bad thing for onything
we run into I'm thinking, 1t will
that.
Well, we tore along through the
fog all day Tuesday. ! was in a
dreadful state of mind. On the one
hand was all anxiety to reach port
in time to cable to England and ste }
the execution of Rupert, while on
the other we were risking the liy,
of the crew and some $50 passengers,
to say nothing of the ship and tho
cargo.
/ didn't leave the deck for mo-
ment all day. / promised the cap
tain would not leave stone un-
turned to insure tho safety of tbs
vessel. We put three times the or
binary number of men on the look
, out and kept fog horning and whis-
thing all day long, but by merciful
providence we had clear COURSE.
We only sighted one vessel about
midday, but | could not discern
what she was. Toward night the
fog lifted. and the stars shone, Me-
Greig, the engineer, now had the
coal piled on at a fearful rate, and
we shot through the water like all
arrow, but early the next morning
the wretched fog came on again.
We were Of course nearing the
:. land, and the risk of collision was