The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-11-18
I0RSE THAN A BRUTE
Iicious Skipper Treats His Crew
Most ShamefulIy.
TO KILL THE MATE.

=. omcer Jumps into the Sea to Escape
the Captain and Is Picked Up by the
c.ox More Dead Than Alive-Men Beat
and starved All the Way to the West
a indies aud Back. and Then Discharged
81 without Their Pay
Nav York, Nov. 1S.-For three days
- Coasting Sailors home at 172 Cher
[, street has been visited by detach-
4, ANTS of the crew of the little Nova
z cotIan brigantine Iona, from the West
dies which Is now lying at Montville,
IL tho Thames, above New London. The
4 ots and four seamen, having been
brown off the brigantine by her skipper
"a owner, Captain Mosher, they say
ave tramped, beaten railroads and
keoged their way between Montville
4 nd Cherry street The last man, pen
&uess and hungry, walked into the home
"wednesday. The story the men tell is
Almost grotesque. The brigantine
&ronned her New York pilot off Sandy
Nook on Aug. 81. and when she turned
or iIbboom toward Port au Prince
faptain Mosher at once developed into a
Nicer in his ferocity. according to Gus
Andersen, an able seaman.
Captains Compliments.
"The foretopgallant staysail, or royal,
vas never clewed up and the brace was
aver Stacked without the captain call
he us cattle, hounds, scabs and FOOLS"
Laid Andersen. There were four of us
Forward, myself, Martin Swensen Char
4 ey Larsen, and julius Kaas. The cook
aYas a negro from Barbados. Jim. a
ftowaway, was Is years old. the legacy
BIZ a former voyage, and the captains
Milling sneak. The sailor Kaas was the
peclal aversion of Captain Mosher, who
frequently knocked him down while at
HE Wheel He kept the sailors eyes
blackened all the time. When we were
kick or injured Captain Mosher told us
That doctors were no good that he was
b doctor himself. From start to finish
bur grub was salt and our drinking wa
Ter was what we caught from the
Souds. The brigantines forecastle head
eaked, spelling all our clothes and rem
Eering every berth save two useless.
Punched the Mates Face.
"In the harbor of Gonaives, where we
went after leaving Port au Prince, the
brigantine began to drag, and Mate
Eeitzel let go another anchor. The cap
aain was in the ships boat coming from
more. Slack away the chain! You're
} devil of mattel shouted the captain,
bnd when he climbed aboard he punched
the mate in the face with the point of
bis umbrella. The mate murmured
fomething about going ashore to see the
British consul. Jim, the spy overheard
hm and told the captain. Mosher went
ashore again and the wind came from
and and swung the brigantine around
20 that turns were swung in the chains
Then the mate tried to weigh one of the
anchors Captain Mosher hurried aboard
n fury. He struck the mate with his
fsts and iron Delaying pins.
"I'll murder you and throw your
forpse overheard he yelled, If you lay
hand on this lad jim.
Jumped into the Sea. ,, .s.
"Then he chased the mate forward,
threatening to kill him, and Neitzel, to
pave his life, jumped into the sea and
tarted to swim for shore. We lowered
fhe boat and picked him up more dead
fhan alive. The trip from Gonaives to
Montville was one long horror. We new
n changed our clothes or boots till we
vsached home here. Kaas was going to
pump overheard off Cape Hatteras to es-
cape the captains cruelty, but cheered
him."
At Montville Captain Mosher drove
Fhem all ashore, Mate Neitzel affirms,
without paying them a cent Of wages.
Lawyer j. Augustus Johnson. chairman
Pf the litigation committee of the Protes-
PANT Episcopal Church Missionary Soci-
Fly for Seamen Of SO Williams street.
will endeavor to have Captain Mosher
punished and secure the wages for the