The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-10
MEN STILL S%HANGHAIED.
OF KIDNAPPERs WHO SEND
APPEALS TO WASHING TON.
A Gaivesteu Wan who Got Even with ui-
acknowledgements or n Brd Man from
Arirunn who Was Observation-Disclosures
or n stownuns ON n United states Wnrship. !

acknowledgements OF n nPd Man from
AriEonn who was ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
or n stownwnS on = United states wnrship.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9.-Thc officials Of tho
Consular Bureau OF the State Department
figure on receiving every year q certain mum.
Der Of complaints from shanghaicd men all over
the world. In recent years not so many men
are shanghnicd from American ports as there
used to be, but there are enough such cases TO
cause the State Department n good deal of
bother. The best that can be done by the de-
partment for tho shanghaied men, rs q rule, Is
TO authorize tho Consul at the port from which
he sends his tale OF WOO to furnish him trans.
p~ortation back to tho United States, and this
can only be done In cases where the shanghaicd
man has not permitted himself to he bulldozcd
by tho skipper Of the ship that took him away
from this country to sign ships articles for the
cruise. When the shnnghaied man thus gets
himself down In black and white there is rarely
any redress for him when he gets back TO the
United States. He. may wait on the pier for
the ship that took him away to come back
again and have papers OF arrest served upon the
skipper for unlawful detention or kidnapping,
but when the skipper gets before the United
States Commissioner he has only to produce the
articles signed under durcss by the shang-
haicd man to secure his release from Gus.
tody. 1t Is only when some young man Of
| good family falls a victim to tho shanghaicr
that there is n moderate chance of punishment
falling upon the ship Captain.
Such IL case happened at Galveston three
| years ago. Angus Burrill was navigating from
| his club to his homo carly one morning after
having dincd long and heavily. He fell in with
Il rough-looking citizen in q cardigan jacket
and n peaked cap, and presently found himself
imbibing raw red liquor in a dive beneath II
sailors boarding house on the water front.
This was the las, OF his consciousness until he
invoke in a bunk in the forccastle'of the barkcn-
tine Santa Monica; the bad-cyed, cardigan
jackctcd man was assisting him to awake by
%clouting him on the side Of the head, and Bur
rill soon discovered that he was addressing his
first mate. The Santa Monica was by this
time 100 miles from Galveston on her voyage
TO Odessa, Russia, with a cargo Of lignum!vite.
Burrill went TO work like a little man and did
not emit IL whimper. He was n sensible young
fellow when his head was clear, and when he
saw how he was in for it he buckled down,
sawed wood and did his work up to the handle.
lie made a pretty good seaman, for he had been
! one Of Galveston's leading yachtsmon, and he
exhibited such philosophical content over the
situation that the skipper and mates spared
him the c~rueltics ordinarily inflicted upon
seamian's papers for him to sign he signed them
unmurmuringly. Shanghaied men do not get
shore sho ell, liberty, but but yM 0%anRg SuF RI od took i bo when
ashore. In Odessa he operated the cable. got
, the United States. The Santa Monica turned
up in New Orleans .harbor, six months later.
ing hSu for her. and thu the SIX Skipper pSpt got Me! Year arm in prison
| and u So. 900 fine, and was deprived of his
Captain's papers. The case was excftPli1nai,
had he moi had powerful backing.
haied man stubbornly refuses to sign articles,
enduring all the torture that is inflicted upon
e estab 81. hH1eu his o ea n.s r'hen' he 3 gets tsi back to the
United states. the skippcr's, store before the
United States Commissioners is hat the shang-
haled man was q stownway. This story Is be.
coming pretty threadhare, the absurdity Of 1t
being altogether too patent. 1t is only ships
duced to the necessity Of patching out their
crews with shanghaied men, and no man with
such a ship, no matter how urgent his desire to
get away from land or how prodigious his
hn san F4s1 6SF a life is t On tn, Mer see eiiv T ip the United
States for shanghaing. and about SO, per cent.
of the shanghaied men who write their com
ricd aboard tho ships In that port. The shang.
i ha'ar 'Af for The REASON that they s'sr rarely #
ever pick n victim who ia not something more
dition 'h asS. p Of eo Srseki never sRS " id iea a y tn. t%aS % aSn,
who entrappcd him. Moreover, it is a matter
Of the strieiest honor among shippers who ac-
cept shanghaied men not to reveal, even when
they are punished themselves, the names OF the
shanghaiers who help them to get crews.
f~essional shanghaier got, hold of a man very
The shanshaier made him still drInkcr by
means of doped liquor, and got him over the side
of O1a The .G,n STIF po Msr n H. 9 9i%sa S %Rea t fSP s Gnlns
haied man came to after the ship had got out
side, the Gate, he was AS mad a man as ever
castle. 1t happened that he was as bad a man
as ever came out of Arizona. He was \ des:
the Clique, to which the carp, brothers. be.
longcd, and he had gone to San Francisco from
T IurSoss NJ ba SsaafInsF escs,ed fr me dr sn69q for q
season. He soon showed that he had not in.
tended that tho finish Of his drunk should be in
had barely rubbed his eyes and looked around
him before he was at the cabin door in half a
SSase, a sGdpi the boa boata %Sig' tried to impede fsf the
progress OF The mao mar from Arizona ana were
R f%mpod dn? iSta the nat cabin 81 the To s aseR At tho hsh sRip 5nen
but the skipper was asleep in his alcoye com
partment, and while the bad man was kicking
Latin soon had his head laid open with Delaying
pins. and was put Into the glory hole in double
ticc to appear at the top Of the glory hole every
half hour or 20 when he was of watch to taunt
s ,sS Mi,h mat,ari man that Latin h. wS sSRien nsea hunk him:
with the damned Greaser.' The skipper Of.
fercd to release Latin after four days, prOvid
ed he would consent to go to work. Latin told
him for his pains that he would see the Morn
ing Queen blazing first.
There was no doing anything with this sort
OF shanghaicd man, and Latin was kept in dou'
bile irons until the ship reached Nagasaki, Japan
In that port a friendly, member OF the crew
sawed his irons. and he swan ashore. lie
slowed away on a tramp steamer bound foI
San Francisco. There no waited for the appear
ance OF the Morning Queen and the Portuguese
mate. the only man OF the crew that he had II
ia for. Ho waited for three months and met
the Portuguese mate suddenly on Clay street
at noon one day: Tho Portuguese recognized
the bad man. aud made a movement for a gun
or n knife both weapons were found upon hin
after his death. Latin shot him seven times
ted three hours later by a Coroner's jury, TIT
verdict being that he acted in self-dcfence. al
he Internationally did, although he WAS waiting
for his man.
A young man named Philip Bronston. no
longing to an excellent family OF Charleston
s. C., was shanghaied from that port on a Soutt
American lumber schooner ten years ago. Ill
was studying medicine at tho time. but go
over the side of his first ship as the result OF