The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-15

and Adams killed the mate. engineer
and steward. and he. does not know
what became of the captain. He also
saws that he last saw him in the en-
CINE room. Scott denies practically
the whole story as given by both
Adams and Sawyer excepting as to
having shot Cokely: while during
SCOTS narrative of the affair both
Adams and Sawyer laughed frequently
scornfully, and dcrisively, as if they
were amused at the assurance with
which Scott testified as to the facts
as he saw them There is but One
alone who knows all the details of
the horrible crime.
Impossible as it may seem a search
from stem to stern of the Harry A.
Berwind fails to show one single trace
of blood except where Cokely was last
shot near the cabins. Aside from this
there is not one drop of blood on the
vessel. and no trace Of a struggle or
fight of any kind. IN the galley where
the steward was killed there is no
blood but the floor shows evidence of
a thorough scrubbling, and this theory
is substantiated by Sawyer's testimony
in which he says that a short time
after the shooting of the steward he
saw Scott come uB the companiOnwty
of the galley In one hand he bore u
stone jar, and in the other a bucket,
and going to the side of the ship he
dropped overheard the stone jar and
poured out of the bucket a red liquid
which he, Sawyer, took TO be blood.
In the cabin there is no evidence
Of fight although some of the ships
papers are scattered, but none de-
strOyed. There is a mystery deep and
unsolvable about the whole horrible
affair. and it will, in all proba bility, re-
main a mystery until the end of time.
That il is from beginning TO end one
of the most horrible crimes ever COM
mitted on the high seas of this part
of the Atlantic IS the common belief
of all and the captain of the schooner
Blanche II. Kinng admite that in his
thirty years of sea experience it is
without parallel. 1t seems not only
improbable. but impossible, in these
times for such a horrible thing tc
occur. and it savors strongly Of the
piratical exploits of many years ago
when such crimes were of common oc-
currence. The names Of the crew of
the Inflated schooner are as follows:
r. p. Rumill, master; John T. Hall.
mate; John Fable. C. f. Smith. Robert
Sawyer, Henry Scott. John A. Cokley,
Arthur Adams. OF these all were
white except the three prisoners and
the dead man Cokely who was
brought in and buried here.
If this mutiny had been brewing it
must haze been for some time, for the
Harry A. BerWind left Philadelphia
somewhere about July lst. and from
thence to CardenaS. where she dis
charged a cargo of coal. then to Mo-
bile. where she was loaded With lum-
Der for New York.
All these facts are given from per-
sonal knowledge Of the writer, having
been associated in the arrest and trial
CT the prisoners, and from facts
CLEANED from other sources.
The effect that this mutiny and
murder of the crew of the Berwind
will have on sea faring men and cap
tains particularly will be far reaching,
and it vii! not be without some apprc-
hension that sailing masters make
long voyages hereafter. and naturally
it is bound To fiji the captain of ship
With distrust. 4
A wOman's idea of heaven is place
| where she won't have to spend half