The Cairo bulletin., 1905-12-06
Cutter Window Discovers Re-
volIing Horrors on Oyster Beats
SOME VICTIMS RESCUED.
ONE LAD so FAR GONE FROM
COLD AND EXPOSURE HE
WAS HURRIED TO TaE
HOSPITAL.

DtItAAuNiEs lJsNs Ikf fsIs - "
ment expedition investigating the
shanghai horrors on the Chesa apeake
has ended its first cruise, and has ar
rived here to report to Secretary Shaw
and Pres dent Roosevelt. In six days
tho revenue cutter Window used by
he expedition. cruised $40 miles on
the Chesapeake and up the Potomac
River 10 within thirty-fve miles Of
Washington.
i Scores of oyster fleets We're located,
and hundreds Of oysters beats boarsed.
The bugeye Sadie X. Gibson, on which
McCabe and Clark were changaaled.
later to be found dead on Deal's Island.
was Overhauled Of Chesapeake Beach,
Md yesterday She was boarded from
the Window by secretservice opera
lives Her skipper Capt. win Wheat
ley. was ,nterrogated and will be kept
under surveillance until the inquiry II
finished.
Capt George W Muir. of the hugeye
~. r. Robbins. of Oroile was arrested
off Love Point Tuesday and must stand
examination ON charges of heating
George Smith. Philadelphia boy, and
then putting his men ashore without
pay MS them dollar leaving them I'd
walk from Annapolis to Baltimore
Beaten With Spade.
Capt. TulI A. Price. Of the bugeye
James A. Garfield, was taken In Gus
today Thursday off Lower Cedar Point.
N the Potomac, and must face hear
ing on charges Of brutally beating
Robert jenkins, one Of his crew. using
/ spade as a weapon. jenkins, too,
was landed without money. far from
a railroad, and left to walk to his home
n Baltimore.
Cne other SIX ppcr arrested was
Capt Alonzo Fl ffman, Of Smiths ls-
and Conditions of hIs oyster boat,
he bBgeye Genesta when the craft
was examined Friday at Lower Cedar
Point. were so bad that United States
| Commissioner Bond on board the
WINDOW issued the warrant at sea.
On The Genesta was George Kie-
sick, Philadelphia, shanghaied
aboard, who althSugh 80 i'll he could
scarcely stand, yet was kept at the
lrodg ng by the caDlsin. kissick
lived with his sister in Philadelphia.
He got ON spree and was picked MP
by the weIl-known 4.crimp" Big Nose.
Harris, of Philadelphia
Kis ck when rescued by the VIM
lom was nearly frozen. He wore
ragged summer suit had no under
clothes or stockings on. and $ cheap
shoes had gone to pieces under the
rough WI rk. so that his bare feet were
out on the deck. His feet were cut
by the sharp oyster shells he had con i
iantly to walk over His hands were
Also cut by the keen shells. In vain
effort 10 cover his feet Kissick had
torn the lining from his coat aud i'm
nrovised socks. kIssick declared that
the skipper. Hoffman. had declined
to buy him socks and boots in Cris-
field. Nd
II was found thai even again this
nan the blood money. amounting CD
}i2. was charged mp. represeniing an
a.vance given. not 10 wiss,ck. bat to
the "crimper to pay that worthy for
the trouble of shsnhaing the OYSTER
man.
Scars frem Knots on Back.
From that same bugeyc the Genes
"a. The Wiudcm took wo other poor
fellows. One of them. Edwin pallistcr,
D machinist Of Detriot. testified that
Hoffman beat him over the back vita
"a knotted ropc Pall stCr barred his
back in the captain calm e he VIA
DIN and the United states Marshal.
United States Commissioner aud Sec.
rot Service men saw tae scars left
by the shippers knot
Herbert a. Smith was fhc other man
taken frum thc terror ship. He said
hoffman beat him and struck him
with hrass kuuckle.
Hoffman. when taken on board the
Nlndom proved tn be only twenty
years Old Born and reltei ON cysfer
ats De seemed inca Dabie of under
.tani ug that he had done any wrong
Another 90 these hau'el cut Of oys-
.er boat Imprisonment hy the FeieraI
government. Is Lawrence Davis. -
rears Old. ~ oxford. Pa When Davis
was taken away from The sSipjack Bi1
ME. Cap r. 4 nruumo1d skipper
r zoe oyster boat. world ray hin onis
q fr his ervices Tor two months.
As DTS authority. the skipper producci
q raner showing Se-75 floor money
Standing against tfe Roy. when yeung
Davis heard the Tn ted Ststes Mar
stal call him from the Winiroz's
cutter. be burst oaf CRYING and enuid
scarcely stand. Sd great xas his excite
uent
One more Of the ossierb- ats that
81 anDeared uhea the scandal bezan.