The San Francisco call., 1897-11-09
HALL Held
FOR ATTEMPT
TO MURDER
Alleged Victims Back
to Accuse Him in
Court.
ARRAIGNED AT SAN
DIEGO.
tory of the LuCkIeSs Cruise
of the Schooner Grace
RetOld.
SUFFERlNGS OF POISONED
MINERS.
Endured Awful Torture After Par
taking of the Doc'ored
Breakfast.
Story Of the LuckIess Cruise
of the Schooner Grace
RetOld.
SUFFERlNGS OF POISONED
MINERS.
Endured Awful Torture After Par
taking of the DoCtored
Breakfast.
Special Dispatch TO The CALL.

SAN DIEGO, Nov. 8-The luckless
cruise of the schooner Grace is 10 be in
vestigated by the United States authori-
| ties. The four men who claim 10 have
been poisoned by Captain A. w. Hall of
the schooner arrived to-day from Santa
Rosalia on the schooner Anita, ana with
in few hours the papers in the case OF
the People against Hall were prepared
anu he was taken before United States
Commissioner Knoes for arraignment on
the charge of attempted murder on the
nigh seas. He was held in $1,000 bonds to
appear for examination tomorrow.
The four victims OF Halls schemes are:
Lewis Hunt, Barney Wilson. John Oelsen
and J. Weiss. They are the men who
sailed from San Francisco on Septem Der
with Captain Hall Oil the schooner
Grace, bound for Santa Rosalia to open
mines alleged TO have been discovered by
Hall. Hunt went as representative OF
H. NJ. A. Miller, who backed the eXpedi-
tion. Hum told the following story to-
night:
ION the morning of September 25 The
schooner was five miles off Santa Rosalia.
Captain Hall pretended to be little sick
at the stomach and said he would not eat
anything. He prepared a breakfast OF
hapiacks and coffee, and we four ate heart
iy. In ten minutes we were all rolling
about the deck groaning, vomiting, sweat
ing and gripping.
"The men imm ediately accused Hall of
poisoning them, and he denied It, saying
that we must have been poisoned by eat
ing fish four days before. Weiss, Oesen
and Wilson were very angry and wanted
to tie Captain Hall in the cabin. l was
half unconscious, but l overheard them
and ordered them u leave Hall alone.
We were or the high seas, beg ond ques
zion, when this poisoning occurred.
That evening, We being better through
copious vomiting, though we threw up
| much blood, landing was made at Santa
Rosaia. The breakers looked rough, and
| demurred, but Captain Il ali said he hau
often landed there and it WAS safe. The
skiff was swamped, and Hall would have
drowned if l had not pulled him ashore
Il left Captain Hall and the two men at
| Santa Rosalia while | went after the ami
mails Captain Hall was TO take the TWO
men to the ia bulously rich mines he had
| located. AS soon as my back was turned
Hall told the miners to await his return
and he struck out alone. / was sus-
picious, and after Hall left / followed his
trail and found that it led to the little
settlement of Rosario. where Hall slept all
night, returning 90 camp. The rich
mine story was ali myth.
Hall returned 10 the vessel. ard with
TIVE sailor Barney Wilson. sailed for San
Francisco. They were hardly under way
before he turned the schooner southwark
toward Cedros Island. He said they aust
| replenish their water supply. Then with
one excuse after another ne kept going
southwark, meantime trying to induce
Wilson to join in plan 10 steal the
schooner and sail south and sell her
Wilson refused. and when they had
reached San Rogue Island he became
! alarmed and peremptorily demanded that
they turn north.
Captain Hall sprang a him with an
OATH choking him and hurting him back
into the cabin. Then the captain got
| rope and tied ii across he cabin door, snd
with his rife covering Wilson, shouted to
him not TO leave the Ca bin. Hal then
turned the vessel northwa:d, and on tie
night OF October Is, While Wilson was
asleep he the Grace ashore He
claimed the Storm won d have finished her
! if lie had not beached her. Then he took
most of the provisions and water and hid
hem in a cave, and after another fight
with Wilson struck Out, taxing the rife,
| provisions and water
Wilson stayed with the schooner, get
ting her afoat, and, with the help OF the
men OF the junk Acme. rigging up jury
rudder Then he sailed 10 Santa RostlIa,
where he founu US. We sailed 10 Lagoon
Heads, where we left the schooner in
charge of a Mexican and took the
schooner Anita for this port.
1--WE have evidence to prove Hall tried
to murder us with poison. What his OBJ
ject was i'll trying to do away with us is
more than / can fathom. He must have
had notion OF getting away with the
schooner better if We were out of the
way"