The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-08-06
SCHOONER'S MASTER BUTCHERED IN
COLD BLOOD BY HIS CABIN BOY

he did not have TO work so much The
Captain told the boy plainly that he
must do as he said and not as the cook
wished To this the young Jap loudly
protested. The Captains wife had
used the Jap very kindly but had re-
eeived only rebuffs. So she had very
NATURALLY taken a dislike to him When
the Captain went below after his little
passage with the cabin boy, his wife
says that she anxIousIy asked him if
he had not been quarreling with the
boy. He had laughingly bantered back
a reply of 20. go on, what do you take
me for?" Later the Captain had occa-
! sion to call the cook into the cabin to
give him some instructions and Mrs
Jacobson says the Jap cabin boy fol-
, lowed him in. She says that at the
time she had a horrible presentiment
that danger to the kindly Captain
lurked in the pair But 1t passed away,
as she says the Captain was so kind
and gentle TO all that she could not
| imagine anyone would be guilty OF
cherishing illwiIl towards him. Mrs.
Jacobson says it was the custom of the
Captain to have chocolate brought into
him every morning about O'Clock and
that after the Jap boy had brought
this in he was expected to return later
and clear 1t away. II is surnlised that
on this occasion as on many previous
ones, the Jap failed TO come back for
the dishes and that the Captain went
forward TO look him up. Mrs Jacob
son says that at about half past eight
her eighteen months old Sirl awaken
ed with an awful cry as if she had
just had a nightmare.
II thought that Edith's cry" says the
widow, was an omen and while sooth-
ing the child heard loud cries on deck
as if some one were shouting that my
the companion way. over the lumber.
and looked down into the donkey room
where all the sailors were piled around
something with blood flowing / saw
the Jap under them, but the bleeding
form was that of my poor husband"
Here Mrs. Jacobson broke completely
down and could not continue the story.
RIPPED UP WITH A KNIFE.
Things were tragic on the lumber
deck. When the Captain went back to
the galley to look for the boy ne found
him seated in the cooks galley. Stories
differ as to whether the cook was there
told the boy to go and do his work. |
Instantly the boy pulled big butcher
knife from under his coat and made
lunge for his commander Captain
jacobson kept cool and called out boy |
give me that knife" This order was
heard by a French sailor. named More,
who was in the fo'castle. There is
little panel between the cooks galley .
and the crews quarters which is used
to pass food through and the French
man Immediately opened this.
What he saw would make the blood
of the strongest of men run cold: He
could see all but was unable 10 get
through the panel 70 assist the Captain.
Captain Jacobson had the boy by the
shoulders and was asking for the
knife The boy pulled him into the
donkey room where the passage way
was only two and one-haIf feet vide
and slashed right and left at the
built master. The Captain
again got him by the shoulders and
quick as lightning the boy bent 10 his
hi Lnffp RIG
through the Captains body The Cap
tain fell over the Jap. Blood spurted
IN the little assassin underneath and
in a moment the whole ships crew ana
Mrs jacobson were on thes scene.
The Captain was carried up through
he lumber pile and laid on deck but
nearly all the blood had left his body
and he was quite dead
Then crazy scenes ensued. sailor
saw the knife sticking in the Captains
BODY. With a wild shout he pulled II
,ut and threw 1t far out into the sea.
rhe Captains wife was prostrate over
he body. The sailors. who are a very !
mixed lot of all natiOnaiities. loved the
raptain well and appreciated his noble Z
.haracter. so they were soon surging !
bout the Jap murderer and in mo- 5
1ent would have thrown the scrouudrel
nto the sea had not the mate. II. Mey-
r n neryy Norwegian. instantly TAX I
n command and ordered the Jap put '
n irons Heavy leg and wrist irons
we're secured and with then about his I
Iood-soaked clothing the Jap was
rooped into a hole near the mizzen I
mast about eight feet down in the
lmber and about six feet by four in I
ize. The other Jap kept out Of sight I
While the hystericaI woman with her :
wn hands bathed the blood from the
body and would have kept ]
Working on 1t for hours had the crew I
ot put her in the cabin.
It was at once decided that the vessel [
hould go to Honolulu. Mrs. Jacobson r
vas in the most trying position IN a
-hich A woman could be- placed out [
he rallied quickly and straishta way "a
oDrnan nded that the japanese cook
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