The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-10-14


| told how fitzgerald was butchered. Sparf
let go the peak halyards, and then st.
| Clair told the mata that something was
wrong forward. The mate went into the
bow. ST. Clair was close at his heels
with an Ak. He struck the mate at least
a dozen times with the sharp weapon.
Fitzgerald died hard. After the first
blow was struck he attempted to cross
the deck on his hands and knees. The
murderer rained blow after blow upon
him. Hansen said be struck him at least
70 times. When Hansen started to ex-
anime the body after Fitzgerald had
ceased to struggle, St. Clair said: "Oh,
let him alone. Let us so aft and murder
the cid man. Thoroughly scared, Ham
sen begged the now blood mad St. Clair
to desist. I'VE have had enough of muir
der for one night" he said. Let us wait
to finish the job"
you have got me started, and now
you won't help me-" replied St Clair.
Later st. Clair asked Sparf to go down
/ and cut the first mates throat, but he did
not say much when Sparf declined. AS
Hansen expressed the feelings OF the
murderers, their "stomachs turned sick,"
and they were no longer cit to carry out
the details of the fiendish plan.
Another story of mutiny and murder is
told Of the Swedish brig Natal In the
passage from Boston to Brisbane. Cap
tain Estrom early one morning was
aroused from sleep by an ak cut Oh the
right jaw and neck. He turned round
and saw the carpenter aiming another
blow at him. which he partially stopped
with his hand, so that the cut did not go
so deep. The weapon used by the car
penter was a long handled carpenters
ak. The captain warded off this stroke,
too, and wrencfed the AK from him. The
carpenter then drew a knife and drove
the blade into Ike captains neck. The
/ captain clutehed the blade with his right
hand and succeeded in wrenching the
knife from the man. The first mate, at
tracted by the captains screaming, rush
ed into the cabin, and the carpenter and
steward ran off. The captain and the
mate followed them, but were met out
side the door by two sailors, Burton and
Rafense, the former Of whom struck the
captain several blows on the head and
body with a h~andspike. The captain,
who had lost the knife he had taken from
the carpenter, re-entered the cabin and
took down a gun from the wall, and the
I1Sl lfdIcf WIN was also SGfGIEty NOuuQ-
ed, went with him into the cabin.
All this time the blood had been stream
ing from the captains wounds, but be
partially stnnched them with wadding.
Seeing that the situation was desperate,
the captain and mate provided them
selves with ammunition and loaded the
guns and reviewers. The mutineers, see
ing that the officers were armed, rushed
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johnson, a sailor. who was the last, hest
tated a little, and the captain called out,
'sGo aft, or I'll shoot you," and In this
way be was forced to go aft, where he
was promptly secured and tied. The fore
scuttle snd forepeak matches were fas-
rens1 GOWN, and L.. Tas syzs
Johnson wal united and told to assist n
working the vessel, which he was willing
to do. At this time the second mate was
| missed. He had been sitting on the port
side OF the deck. washing his clothes in
the moonlight. His cap was found lying
on a covering board. and on the top Of 1t
a broad cut was visible. It was then APP
! parent that he had been murdered and
thrown ~orerbonrd.
The m~utineers having been fastened In,
much noise was heard In the hold during
the night. Next day more noise was
heard from the forecastle, as though the
men were cutting their way through with
knives. The captain began to fear the
worst, especially ais there was a petro-
lcum axsk accessible. As far as he knew
they had no other tools than their knives,
a revolver and a few bolts lying Ia the
hold. As they had a revolver IN their
possession. the captain and mate dared
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