The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-01-08

been made for il since the body was
found. but without result. Not u yestige
OF coin or any other money was found
On OF near the body. although she Was
carrying a large quantity Of il with
htr. The fact that the murderers did
not take the brooch and some other
small articles of jewelry which she
wore tends to strengthen the belief that
they gained such Il large booty that
they did not need to descend to petty
theft.
The Canadian police feel certain that
Mrs. Bate was murdered aud her prop
erty stolen and hidden, II is impJssi-
BILE 10 account in ny other way. they
say for the fact that some Of her prop
erty was found either on the sailors
who were arrested after the wreck OF
near the body.
The steamship Scotsman, of the
Dominion Line, was one of long list
of ships that have met disaster in the
Straits of Belle Isle. These shafts sep
arate the dangerous northern coast of
Newfoundland from the still more dam
gtrous shore of Labrador. They are
lined with rocks rising from 300 10
1000 feet above the water, checked with
heavy fogs for weeks at d time and
5, netimes filed with ioebergs. The
Scotsman was cropping her way through
the straits in thick fog during the
night of SEP TENDER 81. At 2:30 in the
morning she ran on the rocks with a
terrible crash. Captain Skrimshire
found that the rocks had penetrated
the ships bottom 81 badly that she was
a hopeless wreck, but they held her SO
firmly that she was in no danger Of inn
mediate sinking. The Scotsman car
ried 500 souls Among these were a
crew consisting of raw, unframed sea-
men and firemen who had been taken
on during a strike of the Firemen's
Union. These firemen were literally
the scum and sweepings of Liverpool.
AS soon as the panic caused by the
ships striking began these men rushed
through the vessel, broke into the sa-
loon and took all the drink they could
find, robbed the cabins and tore rings
and earrings from the fingers and ears
of the women. Scenes of unspeakable
brutality occurred.
The captain and officers succeeded in
launching a boatload of women pas
sengers, but in the panic and fighting
a plug had been left out of the boats
bottom and fourteen women were
drowned
The rest of the passengers and crew
got safely ashore but there their suf-
ferings were terrible They found them
selves on the Isle of Belle Isle, which
is nothing but a great rock. They
were at the foot of cliff 1000 feet high
which they were unable to climb. The
nearest habitation was a lighthouse
ten miles away. 1t was separated from
them by such sharp and preciptOus
rocks that few of the passengers were
strong enough to reach it, In any case
there were no supplies at the light
house There was no water for the
Passengers, and the brutal crew had
seized the best of the provisions Deli
cate women had to lie out in the open
air without food or water, While these
brutes drank wine, smoked fine cigars
and feasted on delicacieS few yards
away.
Most of the passengers started to
walk toward the lighthouse. but they
were obliged to stop exhausted at va
rious lodges and caves in the pre-
cipitous cliffs. Mrs. Bate was seen in
the care of two sailors who promised
to take care of her. These men reach
ed the lighthouse without her. They
said that she had become very tired
and lay down to rest, saying that she
could not go step farther, The men
explained that she was safe because
other passengers were sure to come the
! same way. and they thought they
could be Of most service by hurrying
! on to the lighthouse and getting help
No trace could be found Of Mrs. Bate
/ near the spot where they left her. Her
| fate was finally regarded as an utter
mystery. 1t has at last been cleared up
| in the manner already explained. 1t is
not conceivable that the poor woman
| Of her own accord would have wander
/ ed away from the path Of all the other
! passengers to the rem0test and gloom
lest spot on the islet.
! An insufficient supply Of provisions
was finally taken to the passengers,
and at the end Of nearly four days they
We're hauled mp the face Of the cliffs
| by ropes and rescued. Some We're car
ried to Montreal and others to England.
Twenty three of the crew of the
Scotsman We're arrested in Montreal.
j One Of them carried $500 worth of jew
elry concealed beneath his undercloth-
ing. Upon the others we're found dia~
mond rings, watches, brooches, brace
let's, chains, earrings and jeWelry Of
every kind. Womens dresses. silks and
satins, mems clothes and seaIskin
sack worth $500. Twelve others of the
crew were arrested on their arrival at
Liverpool. All the men were fined or
sent to prison. The majority of them
| had been in prison before.
Among the property recovered from
these men were many documents.
Among them was the will of a Mr.. Les