The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-29
NEWS OF BENTLEY
FIRST DIRECT REFORMATION
 RECEIVED FROM HURRICANE
Awful Damage Was Done in Harbcrs of Grand cayinan Captain
 and Nearly All Crew Lost.
Advertiser Bureau.

and Nearly All Crew Lost. Advertiser Bureau. Mobile. Aug. 2. The first direct news from Grand Cay men Island. one of the British West In- dia group in the Gulf, since the great storm of the 11th. was received here in a private letter by way of Tampa. The letter dated the 2srd, to Arthur Bodden. ship builder. from his broth er-in-law. Captain Edwin Hunter, a resi- | dent of the island. tells of great property destruction on the island and great dam age to vessels in the harbor and loss of life. with famine staring many inhab- itants in the face. Mir. Hunter says the island homes are almost entirely de- stroyed. the fruit and vegetable crops whipped into fragments and T cannot see anything other than famine In the land. l In our vicinity" he writes lone hundred and sixty homes are destroyed completely | and twenty-three vessels in this port and | that of Georgetown lost or partly ruined. | On the 1fth the q. E. Bently, Governor Blake. Peerless. Nonparcel. Vivid. Plonia, Maggie Ella and Chamberlain were an- chored in Georketown harbor and within l less than three hours all were gone. ' may say the Governor Blake was the only one which came out possibly safe. Captain George Eden of the c. E. Bently. with all of his crew. except Mate Henry Bod den. went to save the Peerless, thinking his boat was safe. but they never got back. Bodden was the only one of the Bently's crew saved. The Bently Is wa | ter-logged and may be partially saved. T saved three men from the Chamber lain. Mrs. Woods and children, her | niece. sister-in-law. Mrs. Rennie Eden. fortunately were put ashore tcIore the storm came. but all their household goods I "a HA aN ho l lost"
 Captain Bodden said he would write more of the distress on the island but he is sick at heart. seeing and knowing the suffering existing and to come to his peo- pie and the thousands of others in the island. He did not state if the remains of Captain John Woods, formerly com mander of the Bently, and that of his nephew, Mir. Eden. who were shipped on board the vessel at Mobile to Grand Cay men for re-enterment had been saved from the Bentley, nor did he say anything of the Caymen Brac or any of the other islands adjacent to Grand Caymen. Captain Rennie Eden arrived up today with his vessel the barkentine Glenafton, from Havana. His wife was aboard the l Bentley and Mrs. Woods's sister also. He was much rejoiced at the news, of their safety with Mrs. Woods's children. He is a brother-in-law of Captain George Eden, who was in command of the Bent ley.
 President N E. Turner of the Vinegar Bend Lumber Company. owners of the Bentley, was more than glad to know of their safety of women and children, but regretted the loss of Captain Eden and l the members of his crew. He is waiting further news of the conditions of the Bentley.
 Horter's New Scheme.
 E. H. Horter alias Parker. was picked up and run in by Detective Joseph Lacey of the police department today, charged with fraud. Horter or Parker. when he first arrived in the city, had the appear ance of having been up against a lot of hard luck. His clothes were of the shab- by kind, he was unkempt and his physiog-
 nomy was in a condition to warrant his
 going before a barber. By some means
 he got hold of three separate sheets of
 legal cap paper and on same had type
 written by some one, the following pitt 1, full appeal:
 Mobile, Ala. Aug. 25. 1905.
 To Whom it May Concern:
 received a telegram that my wife
 was dangerously injured. I have not suf-
 ficient money to purchase a ticket so ask a few gentlemen to loan me small amounts, and to put name and amount I and I will return the same I will not
 accept money only as a loan and with
 the understanding that will pay 1t back
 Respectfully,
 .I D. H. Parker. Armed with these pitiful appeals Hor'
 ter or Parker made round of the bus
 mess district and. strange to say, se'
 cured a large sum, a greater number oi the donors writing their names and thu amount subscribed, this ranging from 9 ' cents to $1, the latter figure being writ ! ten more than any other. After working his graft to finish the man with thu - alias, when next seen, was clean shaved - his hair trimmed and he was arrayet
 lilxen unto dead game sport" anG
 was parading up and down the principa
 thoroughfares. Detective Lacey, recog
 nizing the man as the one who had beer
 going the round in the earlier hours beg
 ging assistance to get to his strtcker D wife, ran him in as suspicious charac ter. At police headquarters he gave sew
 eral versions of the location of his wife ? and when arraigned before the Recorder
 was given the option of leaving town ol . donating five of the many dollars h'
 had obtained to the city fund. The vic . tins did not appear against him. Hortel
 or Parker agreed to leave and was es
 corted to the depot and ticket purchas
 ed to New Orleans with some of hi
 funds, and he very promptly left the city D When arrested he had $17.75 left of thu - money, besides a new outfit of clothes.
 After Horter, with the alias had lief the city as per agreement with the Re corder, it was suggested by some on,
 that he was the fellow who had beer
 working a similar racket in New Orleans 1. and whom the papers of that burg ha'