The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-04-14
WEYMAN WAS SHANGHAIED.
HIS Long Involuntary Arp From Tacoma
tn Males

to Wales.
Missoula, April 3.-Shanghaied in
Tacoma, beaten n abused On "A Brit
ish sailng vessel. nagged and brow-
beaten tin he turned upon mis- persc-
cutors, placed in ron tor humping the
mate OF the vessel, released and COM
PEELED To do the drudgery of the ship
tor las days, by the English
courts OF justice, offered a position on
the police force of Swansea. Wales. ON
account of his nerve in whipping the
bullying mate-that lis the strange story
of a Missoula boy as told to his brother
in a letter received here last night
from Wales.
Nearly everybody in Missoula knows
Will Weyman. lie has grown to mans
estate In this city, and In late years has
been employed in the various printing
Offices of this city. Good-natured. big
and strong, he was generally liked and
was always in some trouble or other
as the result of his careless and easy
going disposition. Last fall he was
held up and robbed one night by two
fellows who took his weeks wages and
told him to run home. He a been
held UP on several other occasions and
seemed To be an easy mark for high
waymen. He used TO say hat il was
strange that these fellows always
struck him when he happened to have
a little But that was his luck,
and he took IL with the same indiffer-
ence that he would anything else. Will
lie was all right, and when. last Oc-
tober, he decided that there was "A for
tune waiting for him in Alaska, his
friends wished him good luck and Won
dered what sort of a mishap would be-
fall him. They were certain that he
would get into some kind of trouble,
and they were not mistaken, but there
was no one. even those with vivid ina
EtnAtlnnG Whn aNar fhnnUhf TINT hfG
adventures would be SO startling as
they have turned out TO be.
Weyman left here Oct. 10 and reached
Tacoma without an accident OF any
sort. That was encouraging. and gave
his friends here hope that he would get
through all right. He wrote from Ia
coma hopefully, n expected to get
out of that city in a few days. He got
out all right, but In a very different
way from that in which he expected to
go. He was looking around the city on
the night after he wrote home and that
was the last walk that he has ever TAX
en- on American soil. That letter was
the las. word that his family heard
from him till the letter arrived from
Wales last night. His relatives did not
know whether he was dead or alive,
and have worried considerably about
him..
When he his consciousness
o'NSa 'NoA "a hi W SGT u loNn. Dt
found himself in the forecastle of a ves-
sci that he afterward learned was the
British ship Troop. loading for Wales.
For two days he was made to work
on the ship. slowing away the cargo,
within sight OF the city of Tacoma.
out unable To communicate with the
shore on account of the constant pres
ence Of two expire fighters armed
with guns" who kept a close watch
over MIN. After the cargo was loaded
the Troop was towed out OF the har-
Dor. and Willie was a sailor i'm the
merchant service of her majesty.
The officers abused him shamefully.
He was kicked and beaten till he pre-
ferred being thrown overheard sewed In
a canvas sack to any further continu-
ance OF his condition on the Troop.
There We're three others in his fix. but
he was the biggest OF the lot and he de-
cided that he would make a test case
OF the matter right there. The next
time that the mate started in on him
he landed on the officers solar plexus.
and so surprised the bully that Willie
had no trouble in finishing up the job
that he had undertaken. The result Of
the test case was that Willie was placed
in irons for a while. but was soon re-
leased and the mate had a wholesome
respect for the American fist that is
attached to the end OF willie's arm. For
the rest OF the voyage he was not
beaten. but was compelled TO perform
all Of the drudgery that there was to
be done on hat boa He had a hard
time and when Queenstown was sighted
he was happier than he had been since
the footpads took his money and spared
his life. A short stop was made at the
Irish port. but Willie was not allowed
TO leave the ship. So he stayed on
board. From Queenstown the Troop
went TO Swansea. where port was made
14s days after Tacoma was cleared.
The long voyage was over and Willie