The evening times., 1899-10-17

hand.
Robert Wyatt, of ST. Michaels, was ar
rested last night and locked up on suspi-
cion of being the guilty party.
Captain Caulk and Collier left Baltimore
last Saturday for St. Michaels with load
of shingles. Wyatt, il is alleged, started
with them as a passenger. The sloop was
discovered on fire in Rock Greek, Anne
Arundel county, about 8 O'Clock Sunday
morning. A charred body, supposed TO be
that OF Captain Caulk, was found in the
wreck. The head, arms. and legs were
missing, and had evidently been chopped
of and thrown overheard. The flesh on
the trunk was nearly all burned on. The
box in which Captain Caulk kept his money
was missing, and it Is thought he had sew
eral hundred dollars with him when he
left Baltimore. No trace of Collier has
been found, and il is thought that he was
killed and his body thrown overheard
Captain Caalk left ST. Michaels, with
Collier, in the Dream in the latter part Of
last week, with a cargo of oysters 10 be
sold in Baltimore. The Dream was wnat
is known among oystermen as buy
boat that is, her master would buy oys-
tiers from tongers on the oyster grounds
stead OF catching them himself. He was
well known in the oyster region, was quiet,
but OF a pleasant disposition, and was
very popular. He was forty five years old,
unmarried, and lived with his widowed
sister. Mrs. Blades, in st. Michaels. FIRE.
quently he had large sums Of money in
his possession. He arrived in Baltimore
early Saturday morning, and sold his oys-
tiers, II is said, 10 commission dealer for
$500. He had, il is thought, about $l5O
more in his pocket. The Dream was then
taken to O'DonnelI's wharf, where she re-
ceived a load Of shingles TO fill an order
Captain Caulk had brought from St.
Michaels. Soon after the shingles mad been
put on board the Dream hoisted her sails
and started down the harbor, Captain
Caulk expecting TO make the run 10 ST..
Michaels the same night, and spend Sun
day at his home.
The BIazfng Boat Beached.
About O'Clock Sunday morning the
Dream drifted into Rock Greek, on hre,
with nobody alive on board. Tae running
lights of the vessels were burning in the
rigging, and her sails were set, when she
beached in about four feet Of water, OF
Nhites Fond, on the left side Of the creek,
inside the entrance.
John Doian. watehman on the fortifca-
tiCls st Rock Point, rowed out TO the burn
ing vessel, but the heat was too intense for
him to board the vessel. Everything about
the boat, il is said, smelled Of Kerosene oil.
The skin belonging 10 the sloop was miss
ing.
10 further attention was paid TO the ves-
sci by persons about where the slooI
beached. until Sunday evening. when Capt
E. II. P&--ows, CT the bugeye Tho.na:
Blades. bound from Baltimore 10 81
Micheels, was told by dredger that {
slOop had been burned in Rock Greek, and
that il WAS thought 10 be the Dream.
Captain Burrows married a niece OF Cap
tain Cauik. OF the Dream, and he sailed
into Rock Creek at once. He found the
wreck, which he knew was that of the
Dream and in about TWO feet of water he
found the disnembered body With the as
sistalce ot his meE, the remains we're
taken on board the bugeye and covered
with canvas. The United States Engineer
tug Sentinel, Captain Riehi, towed the
Blades to the city, where the police boat
Lannan was notified and taking the tow
from the Government vessel, placed it
alongside Collisions packing house wharf
foot of Hughes Street. The charred body
was given in charge of w. ]. Ticbner &
Sons funeral directors, who will prepare
it for burial.
Wyatt Picked UI.
Capt. Frank Price, OF the schooner Ame-
liza, who arrived al Pratt Street wharf about
II O'Clock Sunday morning. picked up a
man whom be later identified as Wyatt, a;
O'Clock Sunday morning on Sparrows
Point. The man was in a yawIboat." said
Captain Price, and he rowed up 10 The
Amelia and asked TO be taken aboard.
took him on the schooner and his boat was
made fast 10 the Amelia He told me be
was captain Of sldpjRck that had been
struck by steamer down the bay
and sunk The man said he made
his escape in the yawIboat. There
was colored boy about sixteen years o.
age with him. he said, and if he had no
gotten on the steamer he must have beer
drowned. He had blood on his lantern anC
shirt front, which he said was caused by
his being struck on the nose by piece o.
wood in the collision.
Soon after the man boarded my schoon.
er he fell asleep and had little more TO sa,
on the trip TO the wharf. He claimed that
be was half owner of a boat al Canton anC
that he was going there to look after it
When We pulled up al Pratt Street wharf
he thanked me for bringing him up. hur-
Tiedly jumped off and disappeared. His
yawlboat was missing and had evidently
been cut loose somewhere while coming uI
the harbor. At that time i had not heard
of the Dream affair."
BY means of the description given tht
police by Captain Price, Wyatt was locat.
ed and arrested by Sergeant Samuel w
House and Patrolmen T. J. O'Neill anC
Harry Busick at William J. Purners sal,
oon, 6l0 Water Street, called Purner's Ce,
Gil House. He was very much under tn,
influence of liquor, and when the police
men went into the soloon he was drinking
glass of beer. They were dressed in civil
ians' clothes and waited until he finished
his beer before arresting him. He made
no resistance and simply asked what ht
was arrested for. In reply to a question
from Sergeant House. he said he knew
Captain Caulk very well, but that he had
not seen him for two years
The policemen took Wyatt to the station.
house, where he was at once taken into
Captain Barranger's private office About
half-dozen captains of vessels, who knew
Captain Caulk and know Wyatt, were sent
Tor ana were closely examined by Captain
Barranger, assisted by Captain of Detec-
uves Freburger and Deputy Marshal Far.
nan. Sergeant House found a small satch.
el at Purner's that belonged to Wyatt. IL
it was found, among other things. a banl
book that belonged to Captain CauIk. three
or four letters addressed to Captai1
Caulk his clearance papers, a pair of shoes
the sole Of one being covered with blood
and blood-tained bottle containing lit.
tie gin. Sergeant House also found white
shirt supposed TO have been worn by WV.
att, which had been thrown in a closet al
Purner's and which had a blood spot or
the bosom. There was also a blood spot or
a green-striped necktie Wyatt wore.