Arizona republican., 1905-04-17

1 which had been submitted and it was thought that their contents might be sensational. It was learned yesterday | however that they are not They are | merely the sworn statements of Cap ] tain Feety and Chief Mate Oisten Of the Leicester Castle regarding the murder on that vessel on September ?. 1902 Of Second Mate John Bennett Nixon in 9 mutiny by three sailors, Eobhs, Sears and Turner Lee Hobbs of Graham county now in the Mari coPa county jail being charged with being one of them. There is nothing in the deposition regarding the identity 1 Of the Arizona Hobbs.
 The depositions were taken in Lon 1 don two months ago and were authen- ticated by Ambassador Choate. Ap- pended to them are copies of the ships log and other ships papers. The story Of the tragedy as told by the ships officers is very much the same as that related by Wolz the witness in his tes- timony last Friday except that it ap- pears to have been the opinion of the captain and chief mate that the mutt neers never reached shore alive
 Captain Peety said that he had very little .o do with the three men. It was quickly discovered that they were not elDAE 9Ot4-Q SedlleIi ana ne mad 01S- rated then early in the voyage though Ee had not yet informed them that he had done so. They had a great deal of trouble with the chief mate who had perhaps treated them harshly. render ing them desperate and urging them to the crime which they committed. In the opinion of the captain they had been drinking for some time before the commission Of it.
 The captain said that on the night of the killing someone knocked at the coor of his cabin and told him that a sailor had fallen from a mast and had broken his lee. lie replied. directing that the injured man be brought in and he arranged a tahIe on which he could be laid. Then he stepped out of the cabin ard was confronted by Hobbs who began shooting. He fired four times every shot taking effect but all the wounds were flesh wounds Hobbs then struck him with a beIaying pin and stunned aim. Just then Nixon came around the corner of the cabin when Hobbs shot him through the body killing him. Why he should have murdered the second mate the captain ! could not say for he had always been kind and considerate to the men, Ois- ] ten the chief mate against whom they had the greatest grievance had locked ! himself in his cabin.
 Then as Wolz had described. the men ] fled to the forward part of the ship and for the next two hours busted ! themselves in the construction Of a . raft which thev launched As they were boarding it Sears fell into the sea . but was dragged out by his com pam ions. They had taken nothing on the raft but a little bread and a bucket of . water. As the raft was passing the vessel Hobbs cried out 'Hurrah for the American hag," The captain and the first mate fired at the raft as it passed astern but their aim in the darkness was uncertain and ineffective. The raft soon passed out of sight and the vessel hove to until daylight Then the sea ' was surveyed with a marine glass hay ing range Of eighteen miles but neith- rr the raft nor any other vessel was In sight The raft the captain said was constructed Of two blanks about twelve feet long. two feet wide and two inches thick. The nearest land was $50 miles distant
 The deposition of Chief Mate Oisten vas practically the same. Both stated hat Hobbs revolver was a weapon of i2 caliber. It was argued by one of his friends last night that that testi- nOny alone ought to clear him. No Ari- .onian would be caught with anything ess than a A.