The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1902-08-08
(From Wednesdays aoily.)

Nrioih wednesday . uoiSJ
" ARLY yesterday afternoon the
,,,. ,,,,..,,.., ,..,,.,-,,, 49,.
'''' ~
49, er Fred j. Wood, bound from
portland IN chira ,.i,, =, ,,,,-,, 20 ,,,,,, 7
oe'' ""choreu Oh the harpor' she pore
signals of distress and the people on
board of her told a blood-curdlinp story
of a horror on the high sea. A weep-
ing woman sat in the vessels cabin
with a five months old baby in her
arms and with a twenty-one months
old girl child playing about her knees
and crying for papa" Papa" CAPTAIN
j. j. jacobson. the master of the yes-
sell lay dead and mutilated, wrapped
in a canvas shroud on the lumber in
the fore portion of the vessel When
the police boarded the shib Japanese
cook was found locked in a cabin and
n japanese cabin-boy who had butch |
cred the captain in cold blood was i'm /
irons in a hole beside the mizzen mast
with lumber piled all about him. A
crew who wanted to lynch the Jaus
were being closely watched nv the
mate of the vessel, H. Never who has
brought the Wood TO this mort after
eight days of black sorrow since the
captains murder.
The story of the Fred ]. Woods pass
age to this port reads more like a chap |
ter from one of Clark Russelrs stories
of the DAYS of mutineers than of the
voyage of a merchant vessel of the
twentieth century.
AS soon as the vessel showed nm off
port a pilot went out to meet her but
was told by the mate of the tragedy
and left the anchorage without going
aboard the vessel A tug boat learned
of the affair after putting ont to the
schooner and left for Honolulu again
DR.. Holt of the L. s. Quarantine SER
vice visited the vessel and made a
thorough examination. The crew told
him the awful story. IT seems that the
Japanese cabin-boy of the shin had q
fancied grievance against the Cnptain
and when the latter went forward to
visit the galley and learn WHY the how
had not done certain work which had
been ordered. the bow took a butcher
knife from under his coat and virtually
cut the skipper into pieces. DIR. Holt
examined the Captains body and de-
clared that from the appearance of
things jacobson must have died with
in a quarter of a minute after the jap
had run the big knife into him. DR.. |
4 ftOlt granted the vessel pratiQue but
! turned the papers over to the Customs
authorities, who in turn notified the
United States Marshal.
The story Of the tragedy as told by
officers, crew and the Captains wife
when peced together is as follows;
DETAILS OF THE TRAGEDY.
Captain jacobson got the jap cabin
boy in Portland but he did not hitch !
very well with the cook. For n few
days while in Portland the cook and
cabin-boy had many rows but finally
/ they came to an agreement and SEEM !
ed happy enough when leaving Port
| land. Soon the two Japs commenced
, to run things to suit themselves
They refused to do any work that did
not please them and the cook told the
boy of many things he should not do. |
Acting on such advice the boy refused
to clean the cabin brass oftener than
once a week. He refused to clean out
/ the mates room, also the companion
way. The Captain went forward in a
mild fashion and told the boy how to
do his work but the youngster only
sulked. When about seven days out
| from port the CAPTAIN told the boy of
some work he wished done. The boy
. declared that the cook had told him
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-
ceived only rebuffs. So she had very
naturally taken dislike to him. When
! the Captain went below after his little
passage with the cabin boy. his wife
says that she anxiously asked him If
he had not been quarreling with the
boy. He had laughingly bantered back