The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-10-13
Especial to The MeSsenger.)

Southport. n. c.. October 1.-THE
four masted schooner Blanche Fl.
King. bound from Brunswick. Ga. to
New York. has just been towed into
port by the tug Blanche. The King
has on board. in handouts and heavily
chained. in the lazarette. three negro
seamen. part of the crew of the four
masted schooner Edward Berwin.
The King was signalled by the Ber-
win 80 miles to eastward of Frying
Pan li~ghtship. and in response to sig
nal sent the mate. engineer and others
to board the Berwin. 1t developed
that the captain Of the Berwin. the
mate. engineer and one other white
member Of the crew had been murder
ed by the three negroes. and the crew
of the King handcuffed them. One big
burly negro brute complained that the
handouts were too tight and hurt him.
and requested they be changed or
made looser. This was done. and when
the chang was being made he jerked
n hand free. drew a pistol from his
pocket and shot twice. killing a negro
- ti'S 'Si . tLo". lildhIIlS " LOIdI
of four White men n one negro
Killed.
1t is reported that the BerWin is
bloody all over. and gives evidence of
savage butchery. The mates berth is
bloOd-spotted. showing he was killed
in bed. One of the three prisoners
says he begged piteously for his life.
.h,,t Tho ipI,,roor ox,o~ o l,,+oc oo,1I
mot be stayed until their tiger f%erocous
passion for human blood was satisfied.
1t is thought the negro killed in sight
of the boarding party from the King
was the one who made signal which
attracted the King.
The captain of the King placed his
mate and a prize crew on the Berwin.
with instructions to follow him into
Southport. The medical officer in
. command of Cape Fear quarantine re-
fused to allow the three negro prison.
ers on the King to be brought ashore
and imprisoned in Jail as the Berwin
has been at Cardenas recently. it is
said. and on this trip was bound from
Mobile to New York. 1t is expected a
tug will tow the Berwin into port to-
morrow. She is at anchor near the
bar. and a heavy sea is running. The
e killed was placed on a deck
house on the Berwin with instructions
to bury him if the tug did not return
for the Berwin today.
At II o'clock last night. United
4C+o+ac CDn,,,;cc;onor rolliar on1 TT y
Deputy Marshal Knox left for South.
port on a special boat. There is but
little that they can do until after the
time elapses that prisoners are reauir
ed to remain at quarantine. which is Il
days. The negroes will be brought &c
Wilmington and placed in Jail to await
trial at the coming term of fedora
most important. in one sense of thu
word. ever tried in Wilmington.
Commissioner Collier received {
telegram last night from United State;
commissioner w. T. Primer at South
port stating that he had sworn in
deputy marshal and W guards. A
soon as Commissioner Collier got def
mite information as to the mutiny h
made arrangements to go to South
port. 1t was first his intention to Civ
the prisoners a preliminary trial a
Southport today but the u~uarantin,
regulations changed his calculations.
The more the negroes deed is re
garded the more horrible it seems al
what could nave caused the egr
brutes to -mutiny is a mystery. The.
were too ignorant to steer the vesse
and were left at the mercy of the win
and waves.
The crew aboard the schoone
Blanche II. King will be held as wit
nesses and those who cannot give bone
for their will be placed IL
will not be kept in Jail without receiv
ing any remuneration. but will be PAL
S1.00 per day for every day they ar
incarcerated.
The mutiny aboard the Berwin i
more like an occurrence of a hundre'
years ago than at he present time
Then a mutiny on board a vessel wa
: no unusual thing but now such a thin,
is rarely ever heard of and especial,
such wholesale murder as was ma
ed on the Berwin. To read of the hor
rible affair annot hely make the bloo'
of masters of vessels run cold whel
hey think of going to sea with onl,
two or three white men on board AM
the remainder negroes. The Nortl
Carolina cOa was once a noted re
treat for pirates and the fate of tn
Berwin's crew is much like a o
long ago.