The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-28
sVANGHAIED BOY RECAPTURED
co,J FCTOR STRANAHAN'S MID
yJCHT TRIP no OPEN SEA.
,.,,. story That lie Was Deceived az 10
tho Length or the Trip Denleti-Ilis
Father, who Got ~ In Advance. Says
IN. Roy knew where lie Was Going.

Father. who Got ~ In Advance, Says
inc Ro, knew where He Was Going.
Tho rcsllt Of Collector Stranahan's mid
-,,h, cl,osa down the bay on the revenue
.',,or Gresham on Wednesday night after
A., Eronch bark Marhchal do Gontaut,
an which, il was alleged, siXteen-year-
od American boy had been shanghaied,
as that the Gresham got back little
N.,ora o'clocIt yesterday morning with
NH Thompson, tho boy who was said
~ hive been -hanghaied, safely on board
Having the French bark anchored off Sandy
uook in charge Of a revenue officer. whose
,ostr,,ctious were to see that she did not
s,u until a full investigation of the way
IN which the Thompson boy got on board
had been made.
40 Gresham, which spent yesterday
MON marshaIling the pleasure seekers
down tie bay. had speut the small hours
n rho same day in traversinR the same
am, in the middle OF an exciting man
Nm, The crew Of the cutter had seen the
French bark pick up anchor on Wednesday
afternoon at Tompkinsville and work
slowly out against the southeast breeze.
Can't. Walkers first official notification
that action was "up to" him occurred only
n. 10 o'clock Wednesday night, when the
Calumet spurted up alongside and voice
hailed; "TAe Collector Of THE Port is COM
jns aboard to 60 down for a shanghaier
of Scotland Light.
A two-minute conversation followed on
the Gresaam's lower deck. Before it was
well over men began to dart to and fro.
II took about three-quarters of an hour
10 start up the banked fires and get up
steam Then the cutter slipped down the
BAY at a thirteen mile clip. Capt. Walker
stood on the bridge during the trip. On
the lower deck in the stern the Collector
and his party. with coat collars upturned
and hats damned down over their eyes, sat
mnrhed in deck chairs around pinnacle,
discussing the international law involved
and listening to Kotzschmars stories Of
the Pacific Coast
Halfway out was passed the pilot boat
the sane pilot boat from which the Col
ector's information as to the bark s where
ahouts had come. Her crew knew the
Grcshams GRAND
is she still of the Scotland?" shouted
Walker
Still Off Scotland Light" called back a
voice
When the lightship was reached no bark
was seen. OF the port bow, two miles
distant, shone the colored lights of a
steamer Still more distant, straight
ahead, was a yellow cluster as Of several
craft, The cutter made for the latter.
Half the distance covered, she suddenly
slowed down. Out Of the darkness to the
starboard doomed the square rigger, unlit
except by ow-hung lanterns at bow and
stern.
That's her. I'd know her in fleet,
cried voice from the Greshams fore
castle At the same time Capt Walker
gave the order TO clear away the whale
boat. The wind from seward. which had
forced the bark TO anchor, was cutting the
ordinary ground swell into shifting hill
locks As soon as the whaleboat struck
the water she was twisted and turned and
turned and tossed and ducked until ii seemed
as IL the crew of six would never get her TO
the rope ladder on which kotaschmar and
Lieut. Edmunds were to descend. The
fiashes Of the distant Highlands light
But the Gresham got her searchlight going
in time TO bring into view the white-clad
crew clinging to a rope that ran along the
bark's side.
La douane! La douanel" they shouted.
The watch peered down at them for an IN
slant, then disappeared. BY means of the
rope, Kotzschmar and Edmunds clambered
aboard The latter went aft for the captain.
The former forward for the bow
He found him asleep in n berth in the
forecastle, evidently worn out by crying
and beating against the door of the deck
house earlier in the day He is light haired
and red-cheeked and he wore blue under
shirt and blue trousers. As kotzschmar
pulled him out OF bed, three or four of the
crew started up and called out something
in French.
Have you signed any papers," demanded
Kotaschmar when he got him out on deck.
Meantime Edmunds was going over tho
shipping list. He had had Capt. Denniere
muster the entire crew.
From the Gresham, the scene was like
The picture from a magic lantern. In the
hMe-whi,e culver Of the cutters search
light every rope of the barks rigging
stood out distinct. The black garments
Of the men on deck were turned to sllvery
gray.
five got him and he's our boy" yelled
Kozschmar before the whaleboat was
half way back to the Gresham.
On the bridge of the Gresham, the Col
Iertor of the Port and the captain stood
elbow TO elbow.
y congratulate YOU on the success of
your trip. Mr.. Collector" said Walker
formally.
If he hadn't been ours, I'd never have
forgiven myself for bringing you out,
chuckled Sranahan in sudden relief,
Collector Stranahan scarcely had time
10 get wink Of sleep after hls return,
when he was visited by NJ. Velten, the French
ice-Consul, who was highly indignant
held up on the high seas. and who demanded
hat the bark be instantly released. NJ.
Nelten had fortified himself with copy
Of treaty between this country and France
made in 1888, by Thomas Jefferson. lie
pointed 10 Article Of the treaty, which
says that French and American consuls
and vice-consuls shall have jurisdiction
IN all civil matters concerning the ships
of their countries in the ports of either
dotlon over all changes in crews and substi-
tu'loHs of new men for old ones. The
treaty was TO run for twelve years, when
made h,r VI. Velten asserted that 1t was
sun IN force as it had never been abro-
gated
Collector Stranahan couldn't see any
ming IN tho treaty that gave the french
bark the privilege Of overriding the laws
Of the United States, and said so. There
was a controversy, not marked it was said,
by the best of feeling, and then the Collec-
,ioT 'eIegraphed the entire situation TO
Washington. He got a reply at o'clock,
rom whom he would not say, and the
contents Of which he would not divulge,
Guy shortly afterward he sent a revenue
cutter down 10 Sandy Hook To release the