Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-11-11
THE DEADLY CREESE.
IT WAS IN THE HAND or THE MALAY
 SAILOR WHO RAN AMOcK

sir Dead and Two Wounded the Record
 Made by tIs Wild Man In Ten Minutes.
 A Terrible Scene Described by Sailor
 Who Was an Eyewitness.
 In four voyages to the East Indies two of them to Malay ports. I have seen but one instance of that native perform aneo called running amuck. Fortunate U ] saw 1t from a position of perfect safety, but the sight was enough to make me steer elearof all Malays after. ward and any vessel that has them on board, ," said Erdix Deering, who IS boy and nan sailed many seas in deep water ships. II was in 1865, when was q boy, on my first voyage, on the ship Harry Warren, which sailed from Boston to India with q cargo of ice. We were lying at anchor in tho roads off Madras, unloading our middle deck cargo into lighters, and 100 vessels Of nil nations wero anchored about us, dis charging or taking on board their car goes Tho ship nearest us, about two cable lengths away, was the British ship Mafratta, which had come from Singapore i'll ballast with q crew of Malay lasears. It was one day at noon that, as our crew lay round under the awning i'll the forecastle waiting for the order to turn to, ono of the sailors sit- ting oil the eapstan sung out;
 " Iii, mates, just look over to the lime juicerl They TO having some kind of rumpus there. See 'em going. be- lieve it's one of those Malays running amuck
 Veal jumped to our feet and looked at the Mahratta, and some of us ran up into the rigging to get better view. From the topsail yard 1 could sec all that was going Gil on the deck Of the British ship. Amidships lascar, naked to the waist was slashing and stabbing at 6 European officer who had tried t0 grapple with him, while everybody else in sight on the ship was running fore or aft or taking to inc rigging. On the quarter deck tho captain was hurrying two ladies down the companionway into the cabin. supporting in his arms one of them who had fainted As the officer fell lifeless to the deck the Malay bounded past him, following three sail ors who had run aft, along tho port gangway, upon the poop. As he ran he swung before him q long, slender knife, its crooked blade curying in and out like the Writhings of q snake. lie over. took the real1nost man on the poop and cut and stabbed him, as he had done with the officer, until the man fell Meantime the second man leaped over | board, preferring to take his chances with the sharks and water serpents to remaining on board and the third man ran across tho quarter deck and up info the mizzen rigging like cat. The man in tho water swam for our ship, and some natives in a lighter picked him np ahead of tho sharks
 ''The Malay left the 1rais he had killed and looked arcEnd as if for fresh vic. tilrs, put he himself was the only liy- ing person in view on tho decks lie ran fore and aft searching but found no one, and he tried tho cabin door, but il WAS closed fast Then he went 10 the mizzen rigging and started up the rat lines after the man who had taken refuge there. When the Malay had got Us fur as the mizzen top, the man he was after took to the topgallant fore and aft stay and began to go down it hand 1 over hand toward the mainmast. The Malay kept on up to the topgallant crosstrees and began to follow the man down Che stay.
 There WAS something frightful in the erelentlessness of his pursuit He had got about ten feet down the stay when the captain appeared oil the poop with a revolver and began firing at him. One, 1 two. three shots ho fired, and tho Malay kept on down tho stay. He was two, ] thirds Of the way to tho foot when at i the fourth shot the arm that held the i creese fell helpless by his side. though i his hand still clptched the weapon. He clung to the stay by one hand and his feet and kept on down it almost as fast IS before. \ fifth and sixth shot, and at the last the Malay stopped still then 1 fell iiko q lump of putty 10 the deck, full 40 feet below Whether he was l dead when he struck the deck 1 do not know. but the mate. who must have been watching from his room. ran ont from the cabin to where the Malay was with handspike and made sure work of the fellow before he could rise. Then the Iascars camo running from the fore. castle and down the rigging, and with capstan bars, helaying pins and knives struck and thrust at tho dead Malay un. 1 tii II he had had dozen liyes in him they would have been hammered out of his body before the officers could re- strain tho excited sailors
 Our captain got the full story of Che affair from che captain of the AIahratta the next day The Malay had been brooding and snllen for days before. though 10 one knew what his grievance was. On this day as tho men were pip ed to dinner he had gone into the fore. castle, got the creese from some place where ha had 1t concealed and had fa-