The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-04
HE YASA PEACEFUL MUTINEER
BUTsIF LAZINESS AMT MUTINY
WHAT rs 1T? ASKS THE CAPsN.

Schooner McClintock I'm with Q Sleeping
Cook In the Fe'c's'le and Her F1ag
Upside Downturn OF Harbor Cops 10
the Rescue-No Case, After All, In Court.
The schooner Robert McCintock came
into port yesterday With her flag flying
union down on the jackstaff and with a
most luxurious darby in the fo'c's1e.
It was on the darky's account that the
nag was wrong side up.
The dgnal Of distress was seen by a
policeman on Staten Island, who telephoned
up to the harbor squad that q ship was
coming up the bay with mutiny aboard.
The harbor cops sprang to quarters and.
with Capt. Dean In command, steamed down
the bay full speed to meet the McClintook
and. IL possible. to save the lives of the Gap
tain and mate.
/ They needn't have hurried. Tho CAP
tain was at the wheel, smoking his pipe and
thanking God that 1t hadn't taken him three
months instead Of two to come to New
York from Morehead. N. C. It was the
mates watch below and he was asleep.
The crew, all negroes, were straining their
eyes to get the first glimpse OF about where
West Thirty-seventh street ought to be-
And the luxurious darby was doing In his
bunk. perfectly happy go long as he was
horizontal and not caring whether he was
ahoat or ashore.
Capt Dean and his squad of twelve cops
scrambled from the deck of the patrol
over the schooner's rail with revolyers
drawn. The stiffness aboard the sailing
craft had made them believe that the worst
had happened and that there wouldn't
be anybody left alive to give the facts for
BE, careful whispered. Capt. Dean
just before they boarded. >. Don't fall
down; The decks are probably slippery
Twas because Of that warning that the
|. when they jumped, and that woke up the
mate and the mutineer. The captain turned
his head so suddenly that he dropped his
pipe. Two Of the sailors raced up to the
crosstrees and yelled down that they
didn't know anything about that cutting
affair on Seventh avenue. Neither did the
police.
They asked Capt Joseph Louis Of the
McClintock where the mutineers were.
well, il he amt asleep. it's because you
just woke him up when you started them
deck planss with that boardin' stunt Of
yours said the captain. I've been on
this run two months Two months just
from Morehead. But got caught in four
or three hundred miles out to sea. And
there's niger below as wouldn't do a
lick of work the whole voyage. Amt that
mutiny enough2
He shipped as a seaman and as soon as
We get under way be swore he was a cook.
And when let him try to cook, the rest
Of the crew, after the first meal. said they'd
mutiny II they had any more Of his grub.
So I've carried that miserable niger for
two months as q passenger. He sleeps
the Stsea to Is. .s aons
because ] threatened to lick any other
niger that had anything TO do with him"
Is that all you've got your union down
for?" asked Capt. Dean.
That pears TO be about all. God knows
that's enough said the captain.
The mutineer was arrested and taken
before United States Commissioner Shields.
who said there was no case and let him 60.
The police wanted to change the charge
from mutiny TO hookworm, but the court
wouldn't have It,
The prisoner was John Griffith Of Boston.