The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-19

out man reported land ahead. The
ship was at once put about, and in. the
morning the South American coast was
a dim haze upon the western horizon.
When the mate came upon deck he
found the mutineers in earnest con-
clave about the forehatch, and their
looks and gestures told him tina it
was his fate which was being debated.
Leon was again on the side of mercy
If you like to kill the carpenter and
the mate, you can / shall not do ii, -
said he. There was a sharp difference
of opinion upon the matter, and the
poor, helpless mate waited like a sheep
near a mot Of butchers.
What are they going to do with
me?' he cried to Leon, but received no
reply. Are they going to kill me?" he
asked Marsolino.
Il am not. but Blanco isl was the
discouraging reply.
However, the thoughts of the mutt
neers were happily diverted by other
things. First they clewed up the sails
and dropped the boats alongside. The
mate having been deposed from his
command there was no commander at
all, so that everything was chaos. Some
got into the boats and some remained
upon the decks of the vessel. The
mate found himself in one boat which
contained Watto, Paul the Sclavonian,
Early, the ships boy, and the Chinese
cook. They rowed a hundred yards
away from the ship, but were recalled
by Blanco and Leon. It shows how
absolutely the honest men had lost
their spirit, that though they were four
to one in this particular boat they
meekly returned when they were re-
called. The Chinese cool was ordered
on deck, and the others were allowed
to loaf astern. The unfortunate stew
ard had assembled into another boat,
but Duanno pushed him overheard.
for his life, but Leon and Duranno
pelted him with empty champagne bot
ties from the deck until one Of them
struck him on the head and sent him
to the bottom. The same men took Cas-
sap, the little Chinese boy, into the
cabin. Canderau, the French sailor,
heard him cry out, Finish me quickly,
then!" and they were the last words
that he EVER spoke.
been let into the hold by the other
m~utineers and ordered to scuttle the
ship. He bored four holes forward and
four aft, and the water began to pour
in. The crew sprang into the boats,
one small one and one large one, the
former in tow of the latter. So ignor-
ant and thoughtlesS were they that
Ifiey were jyliiS GiOllSSlue DIS lIe SIltp
settled down in the water, Inc would
infallibly have been swamped if the
mate had not implored them to push
off. The Chinese cook had been left
on board, and had clambered into the
tops so that his ~gesticulating figure
was almost the last that was seen of
the ill-omened F1oWery Land as she
settled down under the leaping waves.
Then the boats, well laden with plum
dor ,1aod0 c1nyr1u for tho ShOra
It was 4 in the afternoon upon the
4th of October that they ran their
boats upon the South American beach.
It vas a desolate spot, so they tramped
inland, rolling along with the gait of
seamen ashore, their bundles upon their
shoulders. Their story was that they
were the shipwrecked crew of an
American ship from Peru to Bordeaux.
She had foundered a hundred miles
out, and the captain and officers were
in another boat which had parted COM
pany. They had been five days and
nights upon the sea Towards evening
they came upon the estancia of a lonely
farmer to whom they told their tale,
and from whom they received every
hospitality. Next day they were all
driven over to the nearest town of
Rocha. Candereau and the mate got
an opportunity Of escaping that night,
and within tWenty-four hours their
story had been told to the authorities
and the mutineers were all in the hands
of the police.
Of the twenty men who had started
from London in the Flowery Land six
had met their deaths from violence.
There remained fourteen, of whom
eight were mutineers, and six were de-
stined to be the witnesses against
them. No more striking example could
be given of the long arm and steel
hand of the British law than that
within a very few months this mixed
crew, Sclavonian, negro, Manila men,
Norwegian, Turk and Frenchman,
gathered on the shore of the distant
Argentine were all brought face to face
heart Of London town.
The trial excited great attention on
account Of the singular crew n the
monstrous nature of their crimes. The
death of the officers did less to rouse
the prejudice of the public and to in
fiuence the jury than the callous muir
der of the unoffending Chinaman. The
great difficulty vas that of apportion-
ing the blame amongst so many men
and OF determining which had really
been active in the shedding of blood.
'Taffir, the mate, Early, the ships boy, |!
Candereau the Frenchman and Ander-
son the carpenter all gave their evil
dence, some discriminating one n
some another. After a very careful
trial five of them, Leon, Blanco, Watto,
Duranno n Lopez were condemned
to death. They were all Manila men
with the exception of Watto, who came
from the Levant. The Oldest of the
prisoners was only five and twenty
years of age. They tool their sentence
in a perfectly callous fashion, and i'm
mediately before it was pronounced
Leon and Watto laughed heartily be-
cause Duranno had forgotten the
which he had intended to
One OF the prisoners who had
been condemned to imprisonment was
at once heard to express a hope that he
might be allowed to have Blanco's
boots.
The sentence of the law was carried
out in front of Newgate upon the 22nd
of February. Five ropes jerked con-
vulsively for an instant, and the
tragedy of the F1owery Land had
reached its fitting contamination.
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