The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-08-31

the bold bucoaneer soon had the Iron window bars sawed off. He assisted his lnamorata to regain her freedom rom under the very noses of the guard, but there the real trouble began. He had everything in readiness to take her on board the vessel and put out to sea before the alarm could be given and the Sunboat Pinta made ready to give chase The woman, however, insisted upon first securing her effects in the cabin and then hiding until an oppor- tunity offered to strike off through the country to some other settlement
 Bartels pleaded in vain, and realizing that every moment was precious, final ly seized the woman and dashed off along a high bluff toward the landing where his boat was moored. Frenzied with fear, his burden gave voice to shriek after shriek, which brought eve ry peace officer In the peaceful little place to his feet with jump.
 Finding the guards were closing in upon him Bartels hurled the woman far over the bluff into the icy waters of the bay, and half running, half tum- bling down treacherous pathway, reached his skiff.
 His pursuers were close behind, and two of them, putting off in a frail ca noe, overlook their quarry before he got half way to the Achilles. Bartels pretended to submit to arrest, but watching his opportunity, grasped the side of the canoe, and, giving it mighty twist, turned it bottom up. Then he continued on his way to the schooner, leaving the two officers strug- gling In the water. The first cries of the woman had aroused the crew of the Pinta, and a boat from the warship soon picked up the guards, while the primary cause of the turmoil padded to the shore unassisted
 In the mean time Bartels had reached the Achilles, and the little craft was soon ploughing through the blackness toward the open sea. The Pinta quick ly set out In pursuit. but it was not un- til we'll along in the following day that she overhauled the adventurers The Bartels and their schooners were taken back to Sitka, and the kidnapper was held for trial under one thousand dollar bonds. Two of the Achilles crew were sent aboard the vessel for chest containing nine hundred dollars. They secured the chest, loaded the boat with provisions and started down the coast for Puget Sound, leaving the Bartels to get out of their difficulty as best they could.
 Bartels hypothecated the sealskins on board the Achilles to secure his free dom, and the brothers set sail from Sit ka, The Achilles proceeded to Port Townsend, where the runaway sailors were captured and forced to disgorge the money they had stolen. Before any action could be commenced against the Bartels for the fraud they had prac- ticed upon Captain Elmer, they set sail for San Francisco. Here they entered into negotiations for the sale of the vessel for twenty-five hundred dollars, and had about concluded the deal when the rightful owner arrived and pocket ed the money. He was so well pleased : with the bargain that he dropped the charge of barratry, as the crime of !. stealing ship is called.
 The Bartels brothers dropped out of sight in a short time, simultaneously with the steam launch Periwinkle, be- longing to the Lighthouse department and lying at anchor at the station on Goat Island
 The launch could never be traced, but about that time a mysterious little : craft, closely resembling the Periwin- kle, began to cause the Puget Sound customs officers great annoyance by her frequent and surreptitious trips be- tween Victoriatand the American side. That was before the Chinese Registra- tion law was passed, and the smuggling : of Chinese across the border was a highly profitable and extensive indus , try. The smugglers received fifty dol lars for each Chinese landed on the American side, and of all the craft en- gagged in the nefarious business none met with greater success than the little launch. Officers in disguise were sta toned in Victoria and other British Co., lumbia points to watch her movements, and their comrades on the American . side were promptly appraised of her time of departure and her probable des- . tination. The Sound was full of patrol |. boats all the time but the smuggler al- ways managed to elude capture, though she had many hairbreadth escapes,
 Bartels was often seen in Victoria, and while he was supposed to be in command of the smuggler there was no way to prove it except by catching him in the very act.
 For several months the stranger fer ried contraband Chinese across the water, landing her cargoes in the most inaccessible places, whence they made their way to the settlements. One night she started from British Columbia with six Chinese on board. The night was fearfully dark and stormy. and the lit- tie craft wss never heard of again. If Barte,s was in command of her, he alone managed to escape, for he soon afterward put in his appearance in San Francisco. For a time he lived very quietly and attracted no attention.
 The most intrepid act of this fin de siecle pirate was his stealing of the schooner Star of Freedom from this harbor early In February, 1894, for which crime he is now languishing in jail at La Paz, Mexico. It was the first time he had ventured to show himself | in San Francisco since his flight and the incidental disappearance of the Periwinkle. But as that offence could not be definitely fastened upon him he felt comparatively safe.
 Captain Charles Johnson at that time owned the trim little schooner Star of Freedom, stanch craft and fast sail CT, with lines almost as symmetrical as those of yacht. Captain Johnson was | away from home at the time, and the