The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-08-06

| engaged in a deadly struggle. Blood
was running from a slash across the
captains forehead and he had his right
hand clutched on the boys shoulder
near his throat while his left sought
for the hand which held the knife of
which the boy had somehow possessed
himself. Another moment and the two
staggered into the little passage way Of
the engine room and the boy had
sent the butcher knife into the right
groin of the captain, cutting through
trousers and drawers and plunging into
the abdomen. They fell, the captain
on top and the boy with his head wedg-
ed into the corner of the donkey room
underneath the shelf that runs along
the port side. More had by this time
attempted to take the knife away from
the murderer. Neither Of the COM
batants had uttered a word since the
first Boy give me that knife" and the
captain was now past speech or action
with his life blood yelling away in
streams.
As More sprang through the galley
into the engine room or donkey room,
as the men call it, second mate Nelson,
following forward a man whom he had
sent to the donkey room for oil, ap-
pealed at the foot of the ladder lead
ing to the deck with the man needing
the oil, Louis Samuel He saw More
in the entrance between the engine
room ana the galley.
More closed with the pair and at
tempted to wrest the knife from the
hand of the cabin boy He knocked his
knuckles on the floor, twisted his wrist
and Snatched at the blade cutting his
fingers in the attempt. The mate also
assisted and gained possession of the
weapon. This in his excitement the
second mate tossed overheard. This
act he has apOlogized for repeatedly
and SiDpprplV tipp that was
disgust and horror that caused him to
toss away the weapon. 1t is not abSO-
lutely certain that the knife went into
the sea but it has not been found.
Right here, as the men were strug-
Cling for the knife, first mate Meyer,
who had been called by Oto the cook
took hold of the proceedings and
brought them into order. United States
District Attorney Breckons and the
others who have looked into the testi-
mony are loud in their praises of the
mates prompt actions and course gem
orally adopted. Out of a ships crew
confused at their captains death he
drew good witnesses and formed a
coroner's jury that has woven a net or
evidence around the murderer that will
leave the murderer small chance of es-
cape. Mate Meyers forgot nothing and
navigated the ship successfully besides.
A vigorous appreciation of Mate Meyers
X. Wood and Company, owners of the
vessel and ii is thought that he will be
given the command of the schooner.
When the mate arrived on the scene
both the second mate and More were
pulling the now dead body Of the cap
tain off the cabin boy and securing the
knife Meyers gave More a topmal, a
species of mallet and told him TO guard
the cabin boy. The captains body was
then taken up on the decklOad. The
widow had also heard the cries and
come forward to be confronted with
the fearful spectacle. The whole crew
was aroused and on the spot. The
murderer was put in handouts and
chained to the mizzen mast, the vessel
jibed and the course set for Honolulu.
Under the direction of the disconso-
late widow the body of the captain, al
most drained of blood was washed, COW
cred with alum and alcohol poured down
the throat. Clean sheets were used as
Cerements and box, lined with tarred
canvas and the seams caulked with put
ty, formed the casket. The swathed body
was also tarred and the box caulked
and tarred again on the outside. The
tmprovised coffin was placed in a niche
among the deck lumber.
The murderer was placed, heavily
irOned, in the little dining room aft
of the miZZen mast and kept there. The
COOK VINO was Senefally tnOuSnt TO nave
abetted the boy was displaced from the
galley and kept on deck during the
day and locked up at night.
An inquest at which the deposition of
the men were taken down by the first
mate, was held and all hands examined.
The widow and the witnesses all told
their tales and the prisoner was brought
up. He maintained a sullen apathy.
The verdict adjudged him guilty of
murder. All the evidence that could be
collected regarding the position of the
blood stains the appearance of the lost
knife, all that any one remembered that
might have possible bearing on the case
was collected with an astuteness that
has amazed the professional evidence
gatherers ashore. Afterwards the
mate transcribed the evidence into his
log book, the official log book of the
voyage and set down the reckoning of
the ships position.
Then for seven days the widow sat in
the cabin apart from the men who step
ped softly about the ship and fore
bore to look in upon her grief. She was
the only woman aboard. The little one
called for papa once in a while but wee
tots as they are, IF five and twenty-One
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