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

Simon, and three of his crew TO board
the Berwind and bring off the mutt
neers, as he at once OWNED that ans
was what had occurred. Unarmed,
this mate and three seamen approach
ed the Berwind, and in spite OF a
high sea and gale of wind, succeed
ed i'm transferring the three mutt
neers from the Berwind to their own
ship OF these three mutineers one
was tied hand and foot and accord
ing to statements made by the other
two he, by name Scott, is response
BILE for. and is the murderer of, the
whole five.
But ] said / was not going into
these details, and / will not.
/ only narrated the above to show
the bravery shown in capturing these
three men. All three mutineers are
negroes, and two are Americans. the
other being a British subject from
St Vincent. Their names were
given as Henry Scott Arthur Adams
and Robert Sawyer. All three seem
TO be intelligent, and the negro, Scott.
bears marks which identify him as
a cunning criminal of the first water
At the preliminary trial here the
evidence as given by the three mutt"
neers was striking and at times the
crowd in the court room listened with
bated breath and spell bound TO the
deliberate manner in which each
member of the crew of the schooner
Berwind had been first shot and then
thrown overheard.
Some idea of the horrible crime
can be gotten from the story as told
by Adams, the English subject, and
which was corroborated, word for
word and incident by incident, by The
negro Sawyer.
Adams is a bright mulattO and
speaks inteliigently. narrating his ver-
sion of the horrible affair without a
hitch. Frequently he has buried his
face in his hands, crying out, Oh!
how did | ever get into trouble of this
kind" and you brute, Scott, you
know you killed them all and /, an
innocent man, shall have to suffer
for it"
No testimony tending to show al
to the cause OF the trouble was given
by Adams beyond the fact that Henry
Scott had had trouble and words with
the captain and steward as to the
food and water given them.
Adams said: Myself and. Sawyer
We're in the captains watch and my
watch being out a O'Clock in the
morning, | Went TO my bunk TO turn
in" AS | passed the engine room OF
the schooner | saw the captain firing
up the boiler as the vessel was leak
ing badly and the pumps had TO be
kept gong night and day. | suppose
the captain was relieving the engineer.
although / don't know for certain.
This is thu last time | saw the cap
tain. but | heard several shots just
after getting into my bunk. AT five
O'Clock in the morning or near five
we turn out to get coffee, and as
and Sawyer got up and went TO the
| fOrecaStlc door We met Scott, who had
a bet around his waist with Il pistol
I in it, Scott said to us: 'D-n it!
| you fellows stay where you are and
do what | tell YOU to do and every
/ thing will be all right. If you don't
do as / tell you ! will kill you. for
am in command on this ID ship.
| We then stad at the forecastle, and
pretty soon we heard some more
shots. We went on top of the fore
castle and pretty soon / said To Saw
| yer: NY God, look at the chief (ths
| ens:neer) all washed down in blood
| He was standing "~"'nTt the rigging
| and | could see that he was in an
| agony of pain as he was twisting
about. Pretty soon we saw Scott
come W 20 the chief with a pistol
| We could see that the chef was
pleading with Scott to spare him and
| not To throw him overheard. The
| next thing / Saw was Scott going over
| TO the lee side of the vessel carrying
the chief in his arms. Then | heard
someone calling. calling in the sea far
astern, and | suppose il was the chief