The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-10
RACK FROM MORRO CASTLE.
WOMAN SAYS HE WAS a PRISONER
FOR FOURTEEN MONTHS.

,nroo yiiibuuterinE Expeditions, Two or
Them on tho I.hurhdn-Nhcn Hs Got hack
M, vic Had Draws Hir Pay ana EIopea,
No Thinks. with HIs fc-,ucr Friend.
,ohp Patrick Noonan, who says he has been in
MORO Castle dungeon in Havana for fourteen
n,onths, the result OF going on a flibustering ex-
n.dItlor. has applied to the Brooklyn police for
Kiln In rnding his WIFE,. If all that Noonon says
I,true, he has had moro than his share Of hard
luck during the past two years.
In the first place. he says, he spent fourteen
months OF terrible suffering in q Spanish dun
econ. In tho second place, while there some of
hs comrades. who escaped from the clutches Of
tho Spanish. told his wife that no was dead,
Nnersupon she drew tho pay that was due him
from the projectors Of tho flibustering
.,pedition, no says, and married an
.,hor man. Now ho wants TO have her
punlshed for drawing his money, and tho man
lacked up for wearing out tho clothes that he
Taft In his wife's care when he went away. In.
odentally he tells an interesting story OF his ex-
n.risnces, both as q hlibuster and al a Spanish
prisoner.
Noonan is a short, muscular laboring man
about IS years OF ago. He says he has followed
the sea for many years. and his tanned face is
evidence OF tho truth Of his statement, 1t was
on Tuesday last that he went into the Ham
lton avenue police station and told tho Ser
ee.nt on duty that he had Just returned from
Cuba only to ind that another man had run OF
with his vito during his absence.
The man, he said, was William Carruthers. an
ensineer, whom he know quito well before he
went away. He had no positive evidence that
Carruthers had married his wife, but said that
the woman and man were missing. and that he
had been informed by friends that they had been
married.. He lived at IL Hubert street, this
city. no said. when he went away. and he left
his wife there. Since his return. no said, Mrs.
Cassidy. who keeps the house, has told him that
his wife went away soon after he did. but called
on her four weeks ago dressed in the height Of
fashion. and accompanied by his late friend
Carruthers.
The Sergeant told Noonan that, as be was q
resident Of New York. he would have to get a
warrant for his wife and Carruthers in this city.
ii the pair were found in Brooklyn, the police
would DO glad to serve. the warrants, but as
%iy'f had AMID an ldes sI that they We're in Brscoklyn; he
wasn't sure SI, n SS99pt IT SO he desired somssh TO let n tho
In the mean time Noonan is living at Taylor's
a HIs Is sure THAT that Ills wife Is living someWSere IN
Ss s:,s;s w :ss. ~ hin i, is'{ Ss sIsSs 1 T. ala al ,,.ass,
py wife is a little more than ! reekoped on; I
have been an honest enough man and worked
hard all my life and i don't fee, as though was
true to me all this time. II. find this to be the
case shall Be- only too glad to 60 and live With
the smatter, and l shall stay here In Brooklyn
my wife was a young Irish girl. Her name
was Lille White. and she came to this country
from FROM Ireland S1 nS,! general she SsAfns ,S SS {os, ! hen met Sa her sS
and I happened to be around and was able to set
things straight for her. Three days after this
forming the ceremony. We got along toierably
then. Il is hard to believe that she has gone Oh
and married another man.. Still. there isn't
have Seen a sort Of jack Of all trades dur.
ing my life, but have been around machinery a
fHE yd.s Ssae; wo Mfs I'm in ssslnfss ru m w stneet. Brook'
iiyn, and q machinist on the United States train
tfs spsa When Vent n sway to CUBA Was s's a
member Of Company G, slxty-ninth Regiment,
81 go. into all this trouble through looking
for big wages. What ! couldn't get in legitl
S Ras. e: e, T 1875. { sasl.sS g. from lo ni Bssefiyn On 50 t Se
steamer Ernwood. She was a 3.0O9-ton steamer.
s %sns G f9pm B BSssESi '0 To PSlfsdelP Rsf; s %s
thence to Port Richmond. where we took on
We TOOK coal and we did {. but at the Bottom q
tho bunkers, underneath the coal, were a mum.
T En- o. w .Ssf th iasss M men in n our e 1sHst but uRi ,ney
made up the regular crew and there were nc
TSS" men 7P Rad All been 3 o'I given a1f to UNDERSTAND stand
however. that We were engaged in dangerous
wor5, thu vav Inv, W.. n,sssd ,hrss snan,st
cruisers. We were fast. however, and I don'i
ipoE whether they chased ms us Or not Two
s,a tSS a. On nd Pee & 3 sh we ,, fsIIsd int Santiago Santiago
were In possession there. and, as we didn'l
Of mystery 10 me what we took the chance
but subsequent events made us believe tina,
Capt: Rogers Sommunicated nth the insur
noses. There were four R~unboats at Santiago
the Cardelia. ths Santa Maria. and two others
past them in the night. and proceeded straight
70 Havana. whero we discharged our coal. A
and steamed twenty-five miles along the coast
to the southeast.
painted rock, and when the darkness made The
t psSrsd 'a az the tc;p 'e Of this iso ro ,e%pS We sef fneW th sR
that the time had come 10 discharge that part o.
There were answering signals from our boat. Snt
IN q few moments a largo number OF nat-oot
US to work transferring the cases in our hold t.
them. We sent 800 Of these cases ashore In al
s ssl. s .sst e o1 aslf The gs si3e T SS means ysIs t os ssssS snf
lifting tackle; couldn't swear 70 this da!
ghs a was S;a In t hes osse,; hqt ! guess 1t WAS prin
."We went back to Santiago when this wal
done ae, and ID after laying there S.l q few sN p days ts;nS; Q,
s ssP sIi iS5tsesd e Ss isf sAY p5 hTSSsff; az one sa SsPS
Ing loaded to the engine rooms with arms anc
ammunition. From O tug which ran up to III
outside We took on sixty Insurgents. We wer'
chased by the Cordelia and the Santa Maria, bu
elgded them and managed to land sixty cases Q
rints, ] 900. 900 rounds OF ammunition. and all
the insurgents. at midnight In February, 1896
pear an old pier at the eastern end OF the island
IL was done In tho same way as before. Signal
came from the shore and from us. The men oil
shore knew where TO look for us. and our Cap
tain knew where TO look for them.
On March . i shipped from New York on tn
LSnrada again. Thfo time I went as assistan
engineer. AMI my pay was $500 for the trip, ..
qiGnt draw The money. proferrinF to wait unit
lgot hack. We landed arms and ammunition
on the coast again. and then went to Havana Il
gt a cargo, While there two hremen ana my
sell went ashore TO repair u boiler 10
a Spanish fruit merchant. We landed u
midnieht at The MORO Castle coal pieI
were challenged by n sentry, but got by al
right. Finishing the job we went to an inn am
SoI 10 drinking. Then thu, iiremen and l got !
woking around outside OF the castle. The sentr
Challenged US, and when we told him that "