The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-05-12
SHIP CARPENTER GARREIY.
he MAKES THINGS INTERESTING
ron vALEzsCIA's OwF1CERs.
Ansaulting Him-Then Sues In
Federal Court to Recover DAM
a4es for Injuries-steaneR LtbeleA

The steamship Valencia, which arrived
here yesterday from San Francisco. is in
trouble. So are her carZain. W. O. Hum
phreys. and chief mate. James Lane. John
Garrety. the ships carpenter on her last
voyage. yesterday entered in the United
States court of admiralty libel against
the vessel and the two officers named for
$3.o1s for assault>and battery and forcible
election from the Valencia, and another
suit for So. which Is for wages due and
personal possessions held on board the
tered at the same time suit for $42 wages
due. Judge Hanford issued q warran, for
the arrest Of Humphreys and Lane. The
story of the assault and battery was de-
veloped in a criminal suit brought by
Garrety against Chief Mate Lane through
originally brought In West Seattle. but by
change OF venue was tried in Justice In
gersolfs court yesterday afternoon.
Justice Ingersoil found the defendant
guilty and ordered him to pay . fine o.
$50 and the costs of prosecution.
The first witness called in the trial was
Carry. He Is rather small man with
old. Mate Lane Is big. broad-shoildered.
deep-chested man. apparently not more
than IS. Garrety was placed on the stand.
He swore to the following statement Of the
assault:
On May the Valencia was lying In port
at West Seattle. loading with grain for
San Francisco. Garrety came on board be-
tween ! and o'clock in the morning The
chief mate was beneath the for'ard hatch
IN ~
the grain chute. which has become hrok-
en-. Garrety heard him sing out that the
nails he was using were too short TO hold.
Garrety called back that he would get
some longer ones. He did So carried them
aft and offered them to Lane, who replied:
Get t 49, out o. here! I don't want any
Of your impertinence." Garrety
stopped The mate then sprang over the
pile of grain. sacks, struck the carpenter
a blow In the face which feiled him like
an OK, then knelt on the fallen mans
chest and beat him in the face until the
blood flowed. Getting UP, he kicked him
and then put his foot on his neck. asking
him II he had had enough Garrety
staggered to his feet, his face covered
with blood. and reeled for'ard. saying he
would nave the mate in states prison
for this.''
Garrety was severely cross-examined by
Attorney Gorham for the defense, and by
Lane himself, who took lively hand in
the proceedings in an attempt TO muddle
the witness.
George b. NichoI. the superintendent Of
the grain elevator at which the Valencia
loaded. and G. w. Cropt, the bookkeeper
at the same place. were called and both
substantiated Garrety's testimony. They
had been standing on the vessels upper
deck and through the open hatchway had
seen the whole occurrence. They both de-
scribed II as the most co,d-biooded and
unprovoked assault they had ever wit
messed. This closed the case for the prose-
cution.
Mate Lane was first called by the de-
tense to testify in his own behalf. Lane
admitted having knocked Garrety down,
but said the man was drunk and insolent
and he had acted in self-defense. The
Valencia's purser F. L. McCoudray, gave
some testimony.
Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Hart made
a abort plea to the court. The defense
submitted without plea. Justice Ingersoll
order him TO pay fine vf $50 and the
costs OF the prosecution
Counsel for Lane gave notice Of appeal
and furnished bonds OF security in the
sum OF $500, on which the prisoner was
released.
In Garrety's 5000 suit filed in the court
of admiralty he accuses Capt Humphreys
OF approving Mate Lanes assault and also
of ordering him tGarrety) to be thrown
from the deck OF the vessel onto the wharf
alongside an order which Garrety alleges
was carried out by Chief Mate Lane.