The sun., 1901-12-03
He CROSSED SEA AS FREIGHT
IN RON IN PALATTA'S HOLD;
SENT TO AMERICAN EXPRESS.
Dying Of starvation When Found Yesterday
--Hanbury Had Discovered the Trick
and warned tho Express Company by
Cable Explanations Yet TO Come.

signment, was tho gist OF cable message
from Hamburg that reached the American
Express Company in this city before the
Hamburg liner which arrived on Sunday,
had got here
Sure enough there was a man in the hold
Of the Palatia who had been In box in the
hold when@she started, and who was nearly
dead when she got here. He was found
yesterday In the lower hold when the freight
handlers were hosting out cargo at the
| pier in Hoboken. Tie matches were not
opened until yesterday. The Palatia had
left Hamburg on Nov. H. fifteen days be-
fore. The oddly slowed away stowaway-
his name Is supposed to be John Beck and
he Is a German-had begun the voyage
ensconced In a nailed-up box 8x3x4 feet.
manifested as containing model and
| consigned 10 the New York Office Of the
express company.
He had broken out Of the box at some
time on the way over and when found
| he was dying OF starvation. He had food
| with him, but could not eat IL because he
bad no water. or no water left.
Perhaps the express company's pre-
| liminary notice had leaked out. At any
rate, Beck's arrival had been expected in
Hoboken. Last Friday some "tipsters"
in Hoboken began to tell the newspaper
offices Of a dead body that was To arrive
on a Hamburg American liner in a box
| ma 'ked Model
The Palatia stopped at Plymouth after
leaving Hamburg, which stop helped TO
| iengthen her voyage To fifteen DAYS. Her
| matches were covered hard and fast with
taIpaulin during the trip, but there was a
| kind OF forced ventilation which helped
| the stowaway TO breathe and have some
| fresh air.
The box In which he was encased when
! the cargo was slowed on the other side
was near a bulkhead and lay on It's
| broadside. Around II were piled
boxes containing general mcrchan-
| disc, including all sorts Of Christmas goods
and inhumerable bags Of salt. There was
a small aperture in one side Of the box,
which was marked besides the word
model j. b II, sober" and -Norsicht, 4"
which are translated respectively. This
side up" and with care.
| The stavpdorrs were working in No. 4
hatch which Is under the bridge when they
heard faint cries The words sounded
like water they said. Frank Koehler,
! the boss stevedore Of that hatch, crawled
toward the cries and found man trying 70
drag himself over the salt bags toward the
light that poured through the hatchway
Koehler called Adolph Johsnsen, an
assistant timekeeper Of stevedorcs. and
together they drew the man over the cargo
TO the hatch. He was 80 cmaciated that
| his weight was rs nothing.
They carried him up TO the shelter deck
| and then to the ships sick bay.
DIR Deho. the ships surgeon. attended
him He ordered liquid nouIishment and
Marys Hospital FOR an ambulance. Tho
man kept meaning and calling indlstinct.y
for water. When he bgot to the hospital
DR. Won Deesten, the house physician,
gave ~ his opinion that the man was dying
/ Of starvation.
After getting the stowaway out Of the
hold Boss Koehler and the Palatia's car
renter crawled back over the cargo in
tho hold the man had come from. They
found his box. II was in an extremely
/ filthy condition, and evidently the man
had spent many days in II before forcing
/ his way out. There waz cheap mattress,
an umbrella a pair Of shoes and "A pair Of
trousers In the box When found crawling
on the cargo the stowaway was In his under
! clothing He wOre besides, a white shirt
/ with a aoft bosom and over thar a 'dickey,'
/ or false bosom such AZ II worn 10y walters In
. cheap restaurants. He had on a collar
and tie.
\ the man chung 20 an empty bottle koehleT
was satisfied that IL had contained whiskey,
The boz was not taken out yesterday and
Koehler was not sure that there was not
I one other bitl" IA the bn that may
. have contained AdltT If'Tf Ntff SDflit
3 piesss u bread IN th" box II was when
the man wss searched al the hospital that
. a Iieca II paper vas found with the name
7 Of John Bs,k on II II was O'Clock In
Z the afternoon when he va discovered
ia the hold
B..os for 30 ha j. registered az The hos
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