The Savannah morning news., 1901-12-02

Portuguese BumbOat Man Takcn
From an English Steamship.

IOrtuGueSe BUmnOaN WAN IakCh
From an English Steamship.
A Portuguese stowaway, at present
valued at $1,000, is held at the police
station house, subject to the orders of
the master of the English steamship
Glenwood, lying at the Ocean Steam
ship Company's wharves. Harry Olsen
and Samole CALI, sailor runners. are
charged by Detective Wall with alb
Quoting the stowaway.
The Portuguese was stolen from the
steamer last Wednesday night, and ac-
cording to the police was handled by
several runners. He is what is known
as a bumboat man, and made a living
by selling articles to sailors, running
eTrands for them and swapping GU
rios. The man performed these stunts
when the Glenwood was at Medeira,
and managed to hide himself in the
hold of the vessel He had a desire to
come to America, and made his ap-
pe2rance on deck after the steamer
reached sea.
The bumboat man was put to work
and the steamer went to Charleston.
The Portuguese ran away from the
Glenwood at that port, and was ar
rested. He had not shipped with the
steamer and his name did not appear
on the vessels papers, When this
fact became known to the custom
house officials the master of the Glen
wood was required to furnish $1,000
bond that he would take the slows way
out of the United States. AS soon as
the bond was signed the bumboat man
became a valuable person. and one
whom the captain could not very we'll
afford to lose. The Portuguese was
put in irons and brought to this city
with the steamer.
He was locked in a room on the
steamer, but managed to get away
Wednesday night. The door of the
room in which he was confined was
broken, and the master of the steamer
is of the opinion that the work was
done from the outside. He does r)t
believe that the stowaway could have
broken ont uDassisted, and reportC
the mater 2t Iclice headquarte $. Supt.
Reilly ass Sned Detective Wall to To-
cate the buohoat man, AMI the officer
began a search of the sailor boarding
houses for the valuable Portuguese
Detective Wall received information
that the stowaway had been seen with
| Cali, but the runner had turned him
over to Olsen. The detective learned
that the Portuguese had been placed in
| house in Bay lane, but found that
! late Friday night he was removed
with another sailor, to a house or
| West Broad street, near the Centra
/ depot. Saturday noon the detective
| learned that it had been planned tC
take the two sailors to Darien juno
tion on the early morning train and
go from that point to Crescent and
then to Sapelo. The train had been
gone several hours when Detective
Wall received the information and he
prepared to follow on the afternoon
train and try and catch the 81, 900 man
at Darien Junction.
When the detective reached the Cen
trail depot he found Olsen drunk and
learned that the train had been missed
in the morning He also received in
formation that Olsen had been made
drunk by two other men, who had
captured the bumboat man and taken
him to a dive near Gas House Hill.
Olsen was placed under arrest by the
detective and sent to the station house.
He denied knowing anything about the
stowaway, and claimed that he had
not seen him. The arrest of CALI fol-
lowed, but Olsen continued to deny all
knowledge of the theft of the Portu-
guese.
The officer found the missing man at
ar early hour yesterday morning in the
East Side dive and sent him to the
police station house for safe keeping.
He will be held a prisoner until the
Clenwood is ready to leave, and will
then be placed aboard, and sent out
of the United States The escape of the
man would have cost the master of the
British steamer $1,000 Olsen and Cali
Will be given a preliminary examina..
tion in Police Court this morning.