The sun., 1898-12-03
BRITISH COURT DEFIED
The Briartiene Reaches the Break.
water in Safety After Escaping
Clutches uf tie Law.

Clutches DI tie Law.
LEwEs. Del, Dec. 2.-Aiter deiying
the British Court of Admiralty and
showing u clean pair OF heels to an armed
English plnnace that was sent to inter
cept her, and surviving q rough ocean
passage, the British steamer Briardene
from Cork, Captain johnson, reached
the Delaware Break water to-day. From
the day the Briardene lett her sailing
port she has been subject OF gossip in
shipping circles. 1t is not often a skip
per win toy with and ret at defiance
British law as Captain johnson did, and
tho e familiar with the hs,ory Uf the
casr marvel That he succeeded AZ he did
III escaping the laws clutches.
On October 29 the Brial dt ne reached
Cork from New York, where she dis
charged IA cargo Of grain. Her out vi ard
passage had been stormy one. For
awhile her skipper thought il was his
last voyage. After discl,arging her cargo
the steamer was dry dock-d for repai t.
This was ,he beginning OF Captain John
son's troubles.
When the repairs were completed tie
| ~ 'tN Nv CtS""NN away WI <kuSC o
town, which she reached or November
Is. Here fresh troubles were in store
for her skipper. A finn in Hull, having
a debt Of G6l0 against the BrlLrdene, got
an order from the Admiralty Cour for
her detention. and ball'ff was placed
on board. But Captain johnson had a
thorough contempt for the Court,
for he set the bailff's authority at def.
ance, and, proceeding to Cast off,
started dl full speed from QueellstoW II
harhor frr the Channel The pilot, on
hearing the bai,ff's story, deemed tn
navigate the vts-cl, wlierenpon the cap.
tain "ttempted to do 81 himself, with tie
result that he ran her aground, without
damage to the ship, however, and he
remained stuck TART Tor two hours, until
the tide rose to relieve her.
Mean~ hlIe the marshal Of the court,
having ascertained the Iac,s, conlnuni.
Gated with Rear Admiral Lake, who il III
naval command IN Queenstown, and
requested lIls assistance to stop the
Briardtne. The Admiral thereup,n sent
his flag lieutenant with deputy
marshal on naval steam pinnace t.
intercept the steamer, which had Just
hoaled aud was proceeding to SEA. The
pinLacr steamed al"ngsnle and riders
were shouted in tie Admiral name tu
come 10 anchor at once, but Il" atten.
tion MAS paid t" the command, the YES
sci continuing at iuIl speed. foIlnwed il,
vain by the plnnac-, which kept up the
hopeless chase until off Spike Island
whe'e, seeing that pursuit was useless,
the Flag LieulenaIt gave it up. Whti
the Brarirne had got well down The
channel the Captain slowed up lnnt
enough to put IF he pilot and the baiiff
who went ashore in II s,naIl boat.
There i.a lurking su-pi :on among
shipping p"pr here thai the Court %
! Admiralty started II warship after the
! BrIarrI" with orders to 'piurn her a,
all hazards. In fact, all those familiar
wit, the story nf Captain Johnsnn''
drf,lng the Court have been for 4 few
days back expecting to sr- it r-p"rttt
tia, n cruiser flying the English fl X ,ao
put in ~ the Break water tn await tllt
c''n,mg "f, or snap up the Briarienp i
she had reached there. 1t may be that
s',cl, a warrlip IL even now stea,nin,
hill'er i"r this purpose.