The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-25

to execute. Christian depended on his
mems remaining loyal; that is where he
made his fatal error. The Bounty in due
course of time arrived at Pitcairn Island
and Christian and his companions landed
After emptying the ship of its valuables
the hulk was set on fire and destroyed
Lay became kind of private secretary to
Christian, which to him was the most irk-
some labor.
BY Christians orders the Otaheitans be-
came serfs, and so cruelty were they en-
shaved and so arduous their work that
they rebelled. One night the black men,
armed with heavy clubs, stealthily entered
one of the tents occupied by the usurpers
and killed Christian, Hilbrant and Byrne,
three of the crew. In the same tent slept
young Lay. and he was awakened by the
bloody assault, but fortunately was ena-
bled to escape with his life The follow
ing day, when it was discovered that
Christian had been killed, it was rumored
among some of those of the crew left on
the island that one Mccoy had melted the
crime, and an effort was made to assas-
sinate him as an appeasement to their
crude notion of justice
However, the following day a council
was had, and by a vote it was decided
TO decapitate every black man within
sight and to the horror of that awful
night some twenty white men armed with
bunderbusses and bludgeons put to death
every black male within reach. From
thence on for many years there was white
supremacy. The leaders on the island
from that time henceforth We're Young,
Churchill, Mccoy and Quintal. These men
set up in rustic fashion an oriental prin-
cipality, with Young as chief nabob and
the other three being of lesser order This
entitled the govern mental officials To main
tain separate harems, for the polygamous
theory of INTERPRETATION was Immediately
established.
Things ran along smoothly for several
years. no one working hard except Nc
Coy, who was sore pressed for whisky.
After repeated efforts to manufacture the
stuff, he found cereal, which, when put
through certain processes, gave an alco-
holic stimulant which, on the island, was
an admirable substitute for a Scotch high
ball. Mccoy erected a grotesque looking
distillery, manufactured considerable liq-
uor and drank it nearly all himself. AS
his habits became more and more deprav-
ed, he began to lose hold over his fellow
squatters, aud several plots to kill him
We're Matched Mccoy, however, had an
ambition, that was to possess every wom-
an in the island, to have her as his wife.
He wanted to outclass anything or any
body of ancient or modern times, whose
fame rested on the multiplicity of his
wives An edict however, was issued re-
stricting him in this line, and he reVenged
himself for his disappointment and over
throw by killing himself with liquor.
After the Mccoy episode the settlers and
pirates lived happily together and new
social system was founded, with Adams
as chief Children were born and grew
up, not totally ignorant of civilization, not
wholly uncultured, not irreligious, but,
rather, devout. During all the following
years up to 1908 Lay remained on the ISL
and and mingled with the people, but
never married In the spring of 1903 Capt.
F'olger, who commanded an American
bark, dropped anchor off the Pitcairn
coast, and, after making some investiga-
ton, learned the story of the islanders.
He ran into Lay, who had then grown
into manhood, and the latter earnestly
solicited the captain to convey him to
American soil. This Folger willingly did.