The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-10-24
POLICE RESERVES
LAY SIEGE TO COOK
Latter Claims to Have Been
obeying Orders Of Captain
Madley, Of the Ida B.
Gibson, Who Had Been
Assaulted by Mutt
nous Crew.
iBY Associated Press

NEW YORK, October 23.-Four men
were badly wounded In n series Of bat
ties between the officers and crew of the
lumber schooner Ida B. Gibson, and after
wards between Milton Cordery, the cook
OF the Gibson, and the police early to-
day. For an hour about daybreak the
cook, armed with shotgun stood OIL the
police reserves Of the Delaney street
station and wounded q detective and
night watchman.
Frank r. Medley the mate of tho Gib-
son. was missing to-day, and may have
been murdered by the crewsof the Glib
son, who were compelled to. pump the
leaky craft all the wny from Norfolk,
Va, to New York ,s58
Trouble Began at Norfolk.
The trouble on the Gibson began soon
after she sailed from Norfolk. early last
week. Before she was clear of that port
she was run aground, and when fioated
sprang leak. The crew was ordered to
the pumps and compelled to man them
all the way up the coast, despite their
protests. and It was reported that the
officers OF the Gibson were compelled to
use force to put down the beginnings Of
a rnntiny. 4. .$5s gs
On arriving at New York the Gibson
tied up at Pier 55, East River. and the
crew were paid Off and discharged.
Crew Attacks Officers.
At an early hour to-day Captain Brad
ley, Frank Medley, the mate, and Milton
Cordery, the cook. We're leaving a hotel
near the vessel when they were. set upon
by a dozen men, said to include the merl-
bers of the crew OF the Gibson and friends
whom they had enlisted. In the fight that
ensued Captain Bradley received several
stab wounds In the side and shoulder and
the cook was slashed I'M the face. Captain
Bradley ordered the cook board the
vessel TO prevent any one boarding her
while he went to tho hospital for re-
pairs. .5.
Obeyed to the Letter.
Cordery obeyed to the letter. He closed
every hatch but one and instilled himself
In that one with a shotgun loaded with
buckshot. About daybreak to- day Detec-
tive Henry Hadlich William McAIanus, n
night swatchman. and two policemen tried
trouble was. .53 Cofdery warned them to
keep OF. saying that he would shoot
!, The invaders told him they were police
but he replied that 1t made. no difference,
and when they kept on coming. he fired,
wounding NIcAranus In both feet. Had
Itch mado n dash for the deck. and was
shot in the side with thirty buckshot.
The police reserves were then summoned
and laid Siege to the cook, when Captain
Bradley walked aboard and told the cook
to OUTFIT. Cordery then surrendered and
was locked up. The Gibson was sinking.
and the captain went to tho police sta
ition to demand the release of the cook
ITO keep her anoat. He denounced the
police. and was hustled into a cell, de-
spite his protests that his vessel would
sink.
Mate Is Missing.
Frank II. & Medley, the mate. WAS not
seen after the fight In the street. It was
Z feared that he was murdered,
p In court Captain Bradley was fined SO
for interfering with the police. while Cor
derry, the cook. was held without bail to
await the result OF the Injuries to Deteo-
( tive Hadlich