The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-05-11
The Cowboy Sheriff
And The MutineOrS
STRANGE STORY OF MUTINY AND MURDER ON TIN
BRITISH SHIP LEICESTER CASTLE AND THE CIRCUM
STANCES THAT LED TO THE ARREST OF A DEPUTY
SHERIFF IN AN ARIZONA TOWN


General accompanied by his legal adviser Cornac
returned from PhocniN r. where they attended the trial of Deputy
Sheriff Lee Hobbs Of Arizona charged John
Nixon second the British ship Castle September
1902 in the South Pacific
The murder Of Nixon which brutal and apparently uncacd for
bloody from the history of the and the trial OF Hobbs in
rof Arizona with its Wild West setting, less thrilling to the
British Consult General who had grave doubts whether he
would reach San Francisco alive.
Although Hobbs positively identified by member of the
OF the Leicester Castle the time Of the mutny he succeeded in
abng abi and the which consumed three days dis
missed by Judge Kent
The mutny, resulting woundng Captain Robert d.
Peat and the killing of Nixon occurred about 800 miles off Pitcairn
marabe colony composed muneers the British ship Bounty
The Leicester Castle Hongkong
whom three Americans giving their James Turner aged
of Ida Falls W. A. Hobbs aged OF Ltchhed Ill., and Ernest
Sears aged 2I, of Mckay, Or.
outly built smooh-sfaven man. by
Sears was geneman appearing and Of ger build Turner was
built on the order Of Sears, but thinner,
The ship sailed July 60 with cargo of wheat for England
and barely under when discovered that the three Ame
ignorant OF sailors duties Hobbs i'll in his bunk
ordered out by First Mate Osten but refused and told the
first you knew who n would let alone
The promptly dsrated by Captain Peate and after they
their legs the first made unpleasant for Hobbs accord
ing andsman thinking The latter had boosted his thai
he bad from Arizona and he made good the night
smooth with light wind blowing
He stole the second mates revolver staed first mate who
saw that was get shot and he fed to his cabin where he bar
icaded himself Failing dslodge his enemy Hobbs attempted
He Sears the captains cabin with the that hand
and prepared the table for the victim and turned the door OF the ca
Now then captain he quietly remarked and with the muze
only six feet from the captains heart pulled the trigger The bue
lodged in Peae brawny chest but full of fight he rushed Hobbs
VINO ed again the pan passing through the muscles OF the let arm
The captain staggered but did not fall and Hobbs at him. brand
shng Delaying pin He battered him on the head and he fell
fred shots into his body.
The report Of the gun brought Nixon the Hobb
believed he had finished Captain Patt and turning he shot Nxor
through the heart The second mate dropped in the doorway and the
murderer stepped his inert body
While of the attended the captains wounds Hobbs
Sears and Turner kept the first mate and bay standing
guard revolver hand while the others constructed raft OF pank
the ends of the b downaus Provisioning the raft they launched
during the night and dropped amid usade OF shots from the
crew, which had been armed by the first mate.
lookout kept for the raft the following morning but
sighted and believed that ra structure could not live
in the swell and that the three had been drowned
The muny reported Queenstown on the arrival OF the Lei
Castle and the British Clearwater ordered to search
Pitcairn island the which presumed the raft
was headed but no trace of the men was found.
By strange irony fate murdered his
voer stranger his companion
lived the ra until they sighted picked up by schOOn
err which landed them in San Francisco
But fate was active nevertheless WOLF
muny who subsequently left the Leicester Cas-
e making his way Clifton A. t. where he intended to settle
when he encountered Turner H Paso Tex Turner told him tina
they picked up schooner and carried this city and also
informed him that Hobbs was living in clifton ... .,.
Ibis plan OF locating Clifton But in passing through Arizona hi
connection with the Leicester Castle learned by the Arizona Rang
and they gathered him in Tor the purpose OF identifying Hobbs who
was arrested April 9Th last
Hobbs took his arrest cool but aroused the community AM
cowboys attended the trial Phoenix by the hundreds Hobbs
Arizona and when armed with the eradon papers
arrived Phoenix he less interested the picturesque
setting the than he dSqud el
fierce scow and the significant hitChing Of their guns
Mr. Bennett that WOLF positively identified Lee Hobbs tn
deputy sheriff A. Hobbs who had signed the Leicester Cas-
seaman flock of witnesses that Lee obb
the the time the mun occurred and produced
newspaper published in the community that had paragraph relating
to visit Hobbs had made on that date.
ConuGnera prove that the mutnee landed in this cit
rescued from the raft the British Government will re
the and make vigorous search for the accused men,
Wolz trial dscreded but Hobbs abb
produce overwhelming evidence of which, however dis
credited that he had been of the State the night OF tn
murder
Either of Lee Hobbs remarkable of mistake
identity similar environment Hobbs OF the srewdcs
most hardened criminals in the annals OF crime