The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-09-29
The Chronicle says:


mariner, whose wild tales of hurled
treasure surpass any OF the most
imaginative passages to be found in
the pages of one of w. Clark Russell s
sea tales, is an inmate of one of the
cells at the City Prison. He was ar
rested yesterday afternoon shortly be-
fore o'clock by Detective L. l. Mey-
ers of the Morse Agency. According
to the blue-eyed and innocent looking
old salt, the incident of the arrest came
to him as great shock and surprise,
and he did not awaken to the fact,
until after a two hours incarceration
in the tanks, that he had accompanied
a policeman and special detective 10
the jail when he need not have done so.
The captain arrived on the steamer
Mariposa Saturday, prisoner. Among
the many things with which he was
charged were particularized assault on
the high seas and embezzlement AS
the offenses were committed without
issuance of the warrant fell to the lot
of the United States Attorney. His Of
flee being closed on Saturday at noon,
and the Mariposa not arriving until
after that hour, it was impossible to
secure the necessary document, SO cir
cumstances contrived to permit the
captain to balk his accusers and walk
down the gang plank free man.
According to the statements made
Yesterday by the captain, he found
himself in a large city with more time
than money on his hands. He left his
lodgings at 604 Geary street for stroll
and presently found himself at the
Ferry building. Seeing large crowds of
people boarding the boats, he injured
whittier they We're going, and being in
formed that Oakland was their destina-
ton, asked what the fare to the place
was. The policeman from whom he
was cleaning information told him
that it would cost him 20 cents to 90
there and return to San Francisco. He
purchased a return ticket, and as he
was about to go to the gate. strange
Young man placed his hand on his
shoulder and said, Captain Brown,
YOU are my prisoner. You are about
to leave the State and 1 arrest you N
the name of the law"
FIVE CHARGES ENTERED.
81 didn't know what it was all
about said the old sailor, continuing
his story, "but I went with the young
man to the policeman with whom I
had been talking short time before,
and they brought me here
On the prison blotter Captain
Browns name appears five times, and
after each of the entries of his name
occur the words assault and felony. An
assault on the land Is merely mis-
demeanor, but when it is committed On
the high seas it constitutes a felony.
The resident members Of the Cocos
Island Treasure Hunting Expedition
Company no doubt have different YER
sion as to this, as they employed De-
tective Meyers to shadow Captain
Brown and see that he did not leave
the city before a warrant could be Sc
cured from the Federal authorities to-
day. Brown is to be accused of NAL
treating the japanese steward of the
schooner Herman, the craft which sail
ed away from this port on July 20,
1902, for mysterious South Sea Island
upon which was buried silver and gold
plate to the value of $50, 600. His
accusers are the disappointed stock
holders, or dupes, as they now admit
themselves to be, who accompanied the
old captain on this get-rich-scheme
cruise.