The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-10-31
PIRATE SLoOPS CAPTURED
Supposed Key to the Wholesale Robseriss
Along the sound DiscOysred--RInny
yaIuabIes Were Pawned.

Newport, II. /. - The SlOOpS DOrOdO
and Bessie, seized in the bay here by
deputy sheriffs. after the escape Of
their piratical crews, were searched
with astonishing results. That both
were engaged in wholesale robbery
along the Sound is undoubted, and to
them will be traced, the authorities
believe, the many mysterious lootings
of summer mansions on the Connect
cut shore.
On board the Dorodo was found
large supply of dynamite and big
bottle of chloroform. There was
found also silver plated ware, bric-a-
brac, several new flags, some pictures,
articles of linen marked Julia NJ.
Wood" and "Nfrs. H. Il. Tool" and as
further evidence of plumber, many
pawntickets for great variety of yalu-
ables. The Bessie had also on board
great quantity of stolen goods.
From the revelations contained in a
bill of sale found on the Dorodo, the
police are now looking for Henry A.
jackson, supposed to be a Taunton
youth with a bad record, and not, as
was at first declared by some imagina-
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the Missouri. erstwhiie deSerter. The
bill of sale indicates that at st. Helena,
Md, on December 16, 1904, the Dorod0
had been sold for $50 by |. X. Olise
to Henry A. Jackson.
The Bessie is believed to be the prop
erty Of O. r. Buriingame, OF PrOyl-
dence, from whom she was stolen.
1t was made plain by the movements
- he 81 1,ot ,I,
were working in concert, and it is
thought that the Bessie was under the
direction of the pirate captain of the
Dorodo. Ferdinand Cornell, of thig
city, reported to the county authorities
that his naphtha launch had been
stolen. He was able to give a descrip-
r ton of strange craft seen about his
anchorage.
The Dorodo, which answered the de-
scripti0n of the strange Sio0p, was
observed by two deputy sheriffs to en-
ter the bay here. Made fast to her
with long painter was naphtha
launch. The deputies set out in q
rowboat to the sloop but on approach
ing it. several men, armed with rifles,
appeared and made threatening demon.
STATIONS. The deputies. who were I'M
armed. discreetly rowed ashore to pro-
cure arms.
An hour later when they again APP
preached the Dorodo, no one greeted
them, and when they went aboard the
sloop they found that it had been de-
serted.
While the deputies were congratu-
lating themselves on their capture,
which included the naphtha launch.
another slo0p approached the Dorodo
and began making mysterious and not
understood Signals. The newcomer
was the Bessie, manned by two or
three men. She ran close to the D0r0do,
and seeing strangers aboard her evil
IDENTITY realized that she was in the
hands of the police. Her crew threw
her around, made for the shore. where
they beached the sloop and escaped.
It was learned that the men on the
Dorodo made for Jamestown in a row
boat, from which point they had not
been traced There was no trace of
the other pirate crew. The two sloops
are being held, while the plumber found
on board has been brought ashore to be
looked over by persons who have been
robbed. The articles in the pawnshops
in many towns along the Sound will
also have the attention of the police.
A warrant for the arrest Of Jackson,
who, the police say, was the pirate
chief las been issued on charge OF
stealing the Cornell launch.
The authorities searched the island
on which this city and Portsmouth
are situated, in an effort to find jack
son and his companions, but were not
successful.
The arrest OF Otto Steifel proved Of
great importance in clearing up the
mystery about the sloop DOrod0 and
the plumber found on the two pirate
boats held here. Steifel confessed to
the Providence police that he had been
with H. A. Jackson since September
G. and was part owner of the sloop.
He was identified by Deputy Sheriff
Harvey as the man aboard the catboat
Bessie stolen from Charles l. Burlin-
game. of Providence
Steifei protests that he never helped
Jackson steal anything, and never
stole anything himself. He said:
81 have believed, on number of oc-
/. casions. that Jackson drugged me or
administered chlorofQrm and that
white | siept off its effects he went
plUndering yachts near which'he would
tie up in the Sound or in Earragansett
Bay. I know that 1 would wake up at
IGOR II O'clock the next morning with
/ an aching head that wasn't due to
drinking anything. and the sloop
would be miles away from where we
had anchored when | turned in the
night before"
Steifel informed the police that
Jackson had come aboard one night at
Greenwich, Conn. with a suit case.
and, after that. had exhibited valua-
BILE gold watch EIe told of stopping at
other places, but denied that he had