Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1898-02-18
THE DEADLY CREESE.
1T MAS IN THE HAND OF THE MALAY
SAILOR WHO RAN AMUcK.

SRLOh WITH MAIN RWOONs
Six Deed and Two wounded the Record l
Mado 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 1 saw it from a position Of perfect
safety, but the sight was enough to
mako me 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 in 1865, when
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. 1t 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, one of the sailors sit
ting on the capstan sung outs
HI, mates, just look over to the
lime juicer They're having some kind
of a rumpus there. See 'em going. be-
liove it's one of those Malays running
auuol.
"We all jumped to our feet and looked
at the Aiahratta, and some of us ran up
into the rigging to get q better Wow.
From the topsail yard could see all
that was going on OH the deck Of the
British ship. Anlidships lascar, naked
to the waist, was slashing and stabbinS
at European officer who had tried to
grapple with him, while everybody else
in sight On the ship was running fore OF
aft or taking to tho rigging. On the
quarter deck the captain was hurrying
two ladies' down the ecompanionWay into
the cabin, supporting il his arms one
Of them who had tainted. As the officer
fell lifoless to the deck the Malay
bounded past him, following three sail.
ors who had ron aft, along the port
gangway, upon the poop AS he ran ht
swung before him long, slender knife
its crooked blade curving III and oUt
like the writhincs Cf snake. ho over
took the rearInost man Gu tho poop Gn(
cut and stabbed him, as he had done
! with the officer, until tho man fell
Msantime the second man leaped over
board, proferring to take his chaDco'
! with the sharks and water eerpents e
remaining on board and TIE third p,ar
ran across the quarter deck and up int;
tho mizzon rigging like cat. The m1l
in the water swan for our ship enC
some natives in lighter picked him
Up ahead of the sharks
''rhe Malay left the man he had lillec
, and looked around as If for fresh vic
tins, but he himself was the only liv
ing person in view on the decks. He ral
. fore and aft, searching, but found ni
one, and he tried tho cabin door, but i
was closed fast. Then lie went TO th
rizzen rigging and started up tho rat
lines after the man who had t2kel
refuge there. When the Malay had go
as far as the ni2zen top, the man h
Il was after took to tho topgallant fore ant
0 aft stay and began TO go down it hant
" over hand toward the mainmast. TIL
Malay kept ON up to the topgallan
{: crosstrees and began to follow the MAJ
q down the stay.
70 "There was something frightful il
the relentlessness Of his pursuit He ha
got about ten feet down the stay whcl
the captain appeared On the poop witt
a revolver and began firing at him One
two three shots he fired, and the Mala
kept on down the stay. He was two
thirds Of the way to the foot when c
the fourth shot the arm that hold tn
crecso fell helpless by his side, thoug
his hand still clutched the weapon. II
clung to the stay by one hand and ht
20 feet and kept on down it almost as fai
~ as before A fifth and sixth shot, and.i
the last the Malay stopped still, the
fell like a lump of putty to the decl
full 40 feet below. Whether he WI
dead when he struck the deck do N
know, but the mate, who must haS
been watching from his room, ran OF
from the cabin to where the Malay WI
co with handspike and made sure wol
- Of the fellow before he could rise. The
the lasoars came running from the for
castle and down the rigging, and wit
capstan bars, Delaying pins and hniy
V. struck and thrust at the dead Malay u
til if he had had dozen lives in hi
ID. they would have been hammered out
his body boforo the officers could r
strain tho excited sailors.
~ "Our captain got the full story Of d
- affair from the captain OF the Mahrat
. the next day. The Malay had be-
\, brooding and sullen for days befoI
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