The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-12-24
MURDERED HIS
c OMPHNTON.
Then His Guilty Coincidence
Impeffed Him 10 Com
mir .|ufcide.

The British merchantmen Hope had
been lost on or near the Kerguelen is.
lands, and | was one OF the crew of the
bark Rambler. sent out from Sydney,
Australia, to pick up information as to
her end, writes London correspond
ent.
Upon our arrival at the island after a
tedious voyage the bark was anchored
in sheltered spot and two expeditions
sent ashore to search the coast east
and west. While they were ut work the
longOoat was to run down the other
side of the island and search some Of
the smaller ones. 1t was my luck to be
detained with one of the land parties
and as II was summer time we had
only a couple of muskets and our pro
visions to carry
The admiralty chart of the island
showed over hundred bays and road.
steads in which ship may anchor,
and all these had to be- Inspected or
would have been had we not sooner
got trace of the missing ship There
were not fifty rods of straight shore line.
On the third day of the expedition
and when we had made about thirty
miles we came to what looked like n
large river. The distance across was
about quarter OF n mile, and the wa
ter was very deep We headed inland
for about II mile and then found that
our river was n finger Of the sea, stop
ping short ut the base Of u range OF
cliffs. On the rocks and shingle on the
east side lay mass 81 wrcckagc.
There were pieces Of bulwHrk. an an
Choir broken rudder. u lot of chains
and ropes and no end of planks and
beams. Eighty rods away was a rude
shelter, constructed OF boards taken
from this heap, and in the hut we
found several cooking utensils n sail
or's sou'wester, u broken compass and
n seaman's chest. one Of the boards
used In the flooring had belonged to II
ships longbOat and the first thing to
greet our eyes rs we looked in was
the name Hope We found II in two
other Instances while Overhnulng the
wreckage. and there could be no doubt
OF the identity Of the vessel which had
met her fate In the lonely place
The doomed vessel had driven into
the hay with the gale and the tide and
gone to pieces on the rocks before she
could anchor. The turn Of the tide
had carried most Of the wreckage out
TO sea, but there was more left than
we could have turned over in day
Just here the ground fell away to the
south and was covered with stunted
bushes. In searching among them we
found two bales Of cloth, black and rot.
ten; two cabin stools, . sailors mess
Kit and the skeleton of Il man. with
fragments of cloth Still clinging to the
bones. 1t was strange enough that the
Hope should have been driven into
that narrow bay from the sea with "A
furious gale raging but It was stranger
yet that any of the crew had lived out
the disaster She was probably dis
masted outside and In being wave
swept she lost most of her people, but
two of the sailors certainly reached
shore and lived on for weeks or months.
skeleton was found led us to believe
that one of the sailors had killed the
other In n quarrel
Strange things happen at sea as well
as on land. We had made distance OF
300 miles when we ovcrhauled an Eng
lish whalcshlp, and, the weather being
pleasant, the two captains decided to