The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-25
END OF CAPTAIN
HEALY'S CAREER
Well-Known Revenue Captain.
a Mailman With Small
Hope of Recovery.

The Port Townsend Leader states that
there was much dissatisfaction aboard
the McCullochs from the slime Captain
was made TO Cape Nome without Incl
dent, but on the return trip Captain
Healy on July Fourth was brought aboard
his vessel in a state of intoxication. on
July ) the McCulloch weighed anchor and
started for Puget Sound. During the day
the peculiar actions of Captain Healy at
tracted the attention OF the officers and
crew and orders were given to keep close
watch on him. on the 9Th he came on
deck, gave a few orders, and then made
an attempt to leap over the side OF the
vessel His feet slipped and he fell and
by the time ne got up and just as he
was i'm the act of making leap he was
seized by several of the crew and taken
to his cabin.
Lieut.. p. W. Thompson, next in COM
mand, realizing the condition of the cap
tam, gave orders TO remove everything
from his room with which he was liable
to do himself harm and then placed a
WITCH over Hliil s-Ohit itibNl e4tN
Waterman observed several quick motions
OF the bed covering and surmsng some
thing was wrong, turned the bed clothes
down and as he did so. blood spurted from
the captains arm to the ceiling of the
cabin he having broken a bottle and with
the glass therefrom severed a blood yes
sci in his left arm. The man on guard
then bound his arm with handkerchief
11.4J fft. i=f a ~. % a
ing no surgeon on board. During the re-
niainder of the voyage to this place he
was closely guarded and upon arrival he
was conveyed TO the United States ma
rine hospital, where DIR. Gardner, surgeon
i'm charge, made an examination and
placed him in a straight jacket with two
men watching him. When he was being
placed in the jacket he made a vigorous
fight, but was overcome. As one of the
sailors who had assisted him to the hos
pital was taking leave of Captain Healy,
saying he would see him again, the cap
tain called him back and said, You will
never see me alive, notwithstanding l am
in a straight jacket; / will find a way OF
killing myself
At Port Townsend, Wash, on July IA
Capt. NJ. A. Healy, Revenue Cutter Ser
vice, late i'm command of the McCulloch
vas arraigned before Commissioner
Gusgey for an inquiry into his sanity.
During the examination it has developed
that during the four months he was placed
on waiting orders as a result of an in
vestigation of charges brought agains
him while in command of the Bear in 1S9.
during a cruise in Alaska waters, he was
Subject to attacks of insomnia lasting fol
periods of week or more, supposed (,
have been the result of brooding over hav
ing been disciplined in such a manner. i
was also ascertained that during the tw,
weeks previous to July 6, Captain Heal!
had been INDUCING quite heavily in TIL
use of intoxicants. which resulted in de
/ throning his reason. The examining
board after a thorough and careful exam
ination pronounced him insane, with sui
cdal tendencies, and he was ordere
committed to the hospital for the insan
at Steilacoom.
! Captain Healy is GO years of age and
NATIVE of Georgia. He has q Wife, an un
married daughter, and a son, residing il
San Francisco. He has had an eventfu
career in the revenue service of tn
United States, and perhaps no officer i
that service is more widely known, an
his misfortune win be deeply regretted b
Ian.
While he has been ordered committe
at Steilacoom. it is probable that he wi
be sent to the national hospital for tn
insane at Washington, ID. G.