The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-01-10
Record of Brown, Said to Have
Betrayed Lieut.. Gilmore.
WAITER ON CITY OF COLUMBIA.
stated to BE q Fugitive From JUS
tice i'm st. Paul, Where 1t II Said
He In wanted ON Serious Charge
Capt. walter .. Minor Tells
How He Was Found on the Steam
er ON the Voyage to Honolulu.

The alleged treachery of David Brown.
formerly q Methodist preacher of st.
Paul, in twice revealing TO he Fflipinos
the plans OF the party of Lieut.. J. G.
Gilmore, OF the United States gunboat
Yorktown, who were held prisoners by
the Filipinos for several months, has
brought to light several facts regarding
his former life which, II true. tend to
show that his career In the past few
years has been almost continuously one
of deception and crime. 1t is said that
he is a fugitive FROM justice, having
jumped his bail and run away from st.
Paul, where he is reported to have been
held on charge OF wronsing little
girl. -
The story of Browns alleged past Is
known to Capt Walter s. Minor, who
was master of the steamer City OF Co
lumbia on her trip from Seattle to Hon
olulu in the fall of 1898, and who says
Brown sa.led with him on that trip in
the capacity of a waiter, and tnen, after
escaping punishment for the alleged theft
of SIPS from one OF the passengers, went
to Manila and Joined the American
forces.
Capt. Minor last night told of the of
lenses It is claimed Brown is connected
with.
.The first Sunday out from Seattle on
that memorable voyage to Honolulu" he
said "some of the passengers came to
me and said that as there was preacher
on board they would like to have him
lead the Sunday services, instead Of fol-
lowing the traditional custom of having
the master do so. They told me this
preacher was a waiter named Williams.
IT told them 1t was all right: but a
little later was told by one of the pass
engers that Williams said all he wanted
to preach for was to get enough money
to pay for bottle of whisky. l then
called the waiter to my room and asked
him about it. He said he was a minis
ter, but had been forced to leave st.
Paul on account of his uncomfortable ap-
petite for drink, and had taken to the
sea In the hope that the discipline would
cure him. l told him he would prob
get any liquor on that ship. and also
said that he could not lead any services
Imagine my establishment a short
time afterward when was told by Miss
McKaig, daughter. of the presiding ell
der of the Methodist church of the St
Paul district. that Williams. or David
from justice. She said he had held a
pulpit there under her father, but was
arrested on serious charge, which she
said she would not name, and that he
was out on $1,000 bail when he disap-
peared from that city. The reason she
told me this was that. as she said. Brown
Shortly before we got to Honolulu
ported that sl25 had been stolen from his
state room. Brown had charge of that
cabin. and was arrested after we got to
Honolulu, but as nothing could be
proven against him, he was released. 1t
appeared at the trial, however, that the
crime he had been charged with in st.
Paul was the seduction of girl IL years
old.
After we had been in Honolulu some
time We learned that Brown had again
disappeared and had gone to Manila.
There, Is no doubt in my mind that -
paid his fare with the s125 stolen from
Usher. He is the Brown that is accused
of betraying his comrades to the Fill
pinos,"