Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-03-04
THE DEADLY CREESE.
IT WAS IN THE HAND OF THE MALAY
 SAILOR WHO RAN AMucK.

Made by the Wild Man In Ten Minutes.
 A Terrible Scene Described by a Sailor
 Who Was an Eyewitness.
 In four voyages to the East Indies, two of them to Malay ports, have seen but one instance of that native perform ance called running amuck. Fortunate ly saw it from position of perfect safety, but the sight was enough to make mo steer clear of all Malays after ward and any vessel that has them on board, said Erdix Deering, who as boy and man sailed many seas in deep water ships "It was ill 1865, when l was boy, on my first voyage, on the ship Harry Warren, which sailed from Boston to India with cargo of ice We were lying at anchor in the roads off Madras, unloading our middle deck cargo into lighters, and 100 vessels of all nations were anchored about us, dis charging or taking on board their car goes. The ship nearest us about two cable lengths away, was the British ship Mahratta, which had come from Singapore in ballast with a crew of Malay lascars. It was ono day at noon that, as our crew lay round under the awning in the forecastle waiting for the order to turn to, one Of the sailors sit ting on the eapstan sung out:
 Hi, mates, just look over to the lime juicerl They're having some kind of rumpus there. Sec 'em going I be- lieve it's one of those Malays running amuck.
 "We all 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 I could see all that was going on on the deck of the British ship. Amidships lascar naked to the waist was slashing and stabbing at a European officer who had tried to grapple with him, while everybody else ill sight on the ship was running fore or aft or taking to the rigging. On the quarter deck the captain was hurrying two ladies down the eompanionway into the cabin, supporting in bis arms one of them who had tainted As the officer fell lifeless to the deck the Malay bounded past him, following three sail ors who had run aft, along the port gangway, upon the poop As he ran he swung before him a long, slender knife, it's crooked blade curving in and out l like the writhings of 0 snake. He over took the rearmost man on the poop and cut and stabbed him, as he had done with tho officer, until the man fell l Meantime the second man leaped over board, preferring to take his chances l with the sharks and water serpents to remaining on board, and the third man ran across the quarter deck and up into the mizzen rigging like cat. The man i'll the water swam for our ship. and some natives in lighter picked him up ahead of tho sharks.
 ''The Malay left the man he had killed and looked around as if for fresh vic tims, but he himself was the only liv- ing person in view on the decks He ran fore and aft, searching, but found nc one, and he tried the cabin door, but il was closed fast Then he went to the mizzen rigging and started up the rat lines after the man who had takeI refuge there. When the Malay had go as far as the mizzen top, the man ht ...gs, - fttQs took to the topgallapt fore anC ws'e na ',-ashat they cou4gQ down it han( aIt stay anc'',ssss-!sa5,s the woS ,,ast Int over hand toward the main1fh0UTz Malay kept on up to the topgallan crosstrees and began to follow the ma1 down the stay.
 "There was something frightful il the erelentlessnesso of his pursuit. He hat got about ten feet down the stay whe1 the captain appeared on the poop with a revolver and began firing at him. One two three shots he fired, and tho Malay kept on down the stay. He was two thirds of the way to the foot when al the fourth shot the arm that held the creese fell helpless by his side, though his hand still clutched the weapon. He chung to the stay by one hand and his l feet and kept on down it almost as fast as before. A fifth and sixth shot, and at the last the Malay stopped still, then fell like a lump of putty to the deck, full 40 feet below. Whether he was dead when he struck the deck 1 do not know, but the mate, who must have | bOSG h6OSA4aL5 HULL aiS IOOI1IJ Full OuI from the cabin to where the Malay was with handspike and made suro work of the fellow before he could rise. Then the lascars came running from the fore. castle and down the rigging, and with capstan bars, belaying pins and knives struck and thrust at the dead Malay un. til if he had had dozen lives in him they would have been hammered out of his body before the officers could TO. strain the excited sailors
 "Our captain got the full story of tht affair from the captain of the Mahratta the next day The Malay had been hooding and sullen for days before, though no one knew what his grievance was. On this day as the men were pip. ed to dinner he had gone into the. fore. castle, got the creese from some place where he had 1t concealed and had flu. riously attacked his mates without a word. They raised the cry 'Amuck, amuckl' and scattered, but not until three of them had been killed or mor- Fl 1-L1