The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-01-14
fRENCHMAN GOT
RID OF STOAWAYS

One of the most peculiar stories OF
stow-a-ways ever heard of came TO
light yesterday through the action CT
Collector of Customs Stackable in seiz-
ing a boat which formerly belonged TO
the French bark Vincennes, the bounty
Garner which left this port for San
Francisco on November IS. The
Frenchman discovered three stowaways
on board after leaving the islands and,
according to the story told yesterday,
provisioned a boat and set these men
in it and over the side far from land.
When the Vincennes left Honolulu
everything seemed all right, and three
men who had slowed away in her kept
out Of sight until they thought the yes
sci well away from the Islands. Then
they made their appearance and Cap
tain Selaam, feared that on his arrival
at San Francisco. he would have TO pay
a fine of $500 for each of the men, on
the ground that his vessel, a foreign
one, was carrying passengers between
American ports.
He thought it cheaper to lose a boat,
provisions, and navigating instruments
and acted accordingly. He gave the
men a good boat, sails, a compass, sail
ing directions. and plenty of provisions
and put them over the side. He is said
to have told them in what direction
they would find Honolulu, and also that
they would be able to sell the boat and
keep the money as a free gift from
him.
The small boat was said to have been
cast off from the Vincennes about a
hundred miles from Honolulu, and get
ting the trades its occupants had little
difficulty in reaching port. The men
decided to make no noise about their
experience and to sell the boat and it's
contents here. They got into Honolulu
without being discovered by the custom
house people, and one of the men went
to James F. Morgan. the auctioneer,
ton. The boat was sold at auction and
bid in for $25 by Durant, the launch
man.
Collector Stackable heard of the mat
ter. He ordered the boat seized. If the
buyer of it wants his property he will
now have to pay its full value, plus the
duty on it, to secure possession. The
collector would like to find all of the
men who were in the boat. but yester-
day only succeeded in running down
one of them, and this man could not
speak enough English to make himself
The action of the French captain has
been commented upon as a very pecul-
cisco he evidently made no mention of
the matter to the authorities as moth
ing was printed at the time in San
Francisco concerning the incident.
Harry Fortune. sailor on the schooner
Fred ]. Woods and a witness in the
Jacobsen murder trial, is said to n ave
been one of the stowaways who was set
adrift from the Frenchman.
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Father Libert, Daisy Zerbe and AZ deck.
Per S. S. Gaelic, Jan. 10, for San
F'rancisco-Dr. Tinthoff.
Per stmr. Claudine, Jan. IS, for Ka-
hului-E. Busing, Miss B. James, Lun
Seong; for Hana-E. K. Bull and A.
Hanneberg.
Per S. S. Ventura, Jan. 10, for San
Francisco-John F. Hackfeld, Mrs.
Mary K. Eggleston, Mrs. L. K. Com
ings, Mrs. H. K. Pratt, Miss NJ. Pratt,
Mrs. a. L. Shaw and daughter, George
NJ. Rolph, Edgar NJ. Brown, r. J. Nc
Gettigan, wife and 2 children, Mrs. c.
l.. Rhodes, Miss E. A. May, c. l. Simons
and nephew, Major Davis, wife and
daughter, Captain PattisOn, a. G. Bar
well, d. 2. Morrell, II. D. Pender, Mrs.
Dickinson, F. J. Russell, wife and 2
children, I. b. Hutchins and daughter,
NJ II. Davis, DR.. White and wife, A. I.
Miss Ridgeway, Mrs. D. V.
Gill, c. j. Hutchins, H. P. Daley, A.
White. F. c. Crawford, J. Rymer Jones, !
Captain Rotter, Mrs. Kabalo. c. H.
Duncan, w NJ. Winter and wife, Mrs.
G. H. Bind, Matt Johnston.
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