The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-03-29
TALE OF MUTlNY
ON The SEAS
Plucky Captain Flentge of the
milford Defies a Rebellious
Crew.
HELD SHIP AGAINST THEM.
"Fll Take Her Into New York or
He'll" He Said, but the Leak
ing Vessel Had to Be
Abandoned.
HELD SHIP AGAINST THEM.

REPUBLIC SPECIAL.
New York. March 2S.-In a cottage by the
sea in the village of Port Republic, Atlantic
County, New Jersey. little woman had fol
TIL ee weeks refused to eat. because her hus.
band did not come back to her. With the
woman Was her child. whose father, Cap
tain John F1entge. had been given UP fol
lost In the wicked hurricanes which have
swept the waste OF sea to the eastward OF
Hatteras.
In the papers of February 9 came the
news (after month OF suspense and flve
Gays of mental agony caused by the tidings
that her husbands crew had mulinied,
standing all that ne had positively refused
to abandon his ship that Captain FIentge
was on a steamer bouno for GLASGOW.
1t was two days over month, owing to
the reo-tape of the American Consurs Of
flee in Glasgow. before the wife saw her
husband. Expecting HIM in week she
must be a mistake about his being saved
Captain Fientge and his male, Charlie
Christensen. of the schooner Anna L. Null
ford. arrived on the Ethiopia on last Tues
day. but 1t was " eonesday night before the
captain could reach his fireside.
Instead of blaming him Tor the loss of
the schooner. which. he says, undoubtedly
went down on the night OF Janua.y 20. fol-
lowing the day Of his rescue by the West
hall. his owners and agents have presented
him with a substantial gratuity for his de-
votion.
He paints his men as mutineers. DULLES.
1dlers and shiftless. Indifferent sailors
giittering-eyed." as his crew described hip
when they arrived from Glasgow on the
Lauientlan on March 2. He is blue-eyed,
in a meiodious tone. His makeup Is that
Of man OF Iron determination. not OF
authority.
drama. or whatever you can It. on the way
home from Scotland" said he yesterday.
Its all stuff.
]. Suffer and Abraham knight had mutinied
on the Clara 4 Bergen, and that one or
them had been in Jail before joining the
Il shall have them arrested on sight. and
make an example of them for the benefit
Of the coastins trade. l had cableo to have
them arrested when they arrived. but they
They falsely when they say they had no
tea, coffee or anything OF that sort They
TT was they who were afraid. not 1.
They didn't tell you It was the mate who
pumped six and eight hours on the stretch
1.-The only spar we lost was the main
boom. caused by James Johnson's foolish;
ness of Hatteras on January y He gyoeo
and took waiter %as 0 suit John
James In drawing a bucket OF water left
the tap OF. I allowed them extra timed
s? They ' were not sailors don't believe
James knew how to boz the compass.
When he was at the wheel 1 could never get
him to give me the course.
ION one day James sneaked behind mo
and struck me back of the ear In the COOK
and steward. Jacob johnson. had friend
who reported every time he was afs every
thing that TRANSFERRED forward.
las I was logging James. the steward
sad to me: Captain. James brags that ne
ca led you out of your name and struck struck
yoS.'
writing" ordered, and the cooks tesu-
mony is In the log.
Si was iii four and half days with shoot
me- pains through the head and raw
.wolien tongue, 80 that i could not close