Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-11
Seventeen Year-0ld College
Youth Tells Thrilling Story.
BRUTALITY AND CRIME
REMARKABLE CONDITION OF AZ
FAIRS REVEALED.
Desperate Methods Of Securing Help
on Chesapeake Bay Vessels-Worse
Than Servitude.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


PHILADELPHIA. Pa. Dec. 11-Rudolph
Horre, the seventeen-year-old Girard Col
lege boy of this city, reached Philadelphia
Thursday last, after having escaped from
the thraldom of Chesapeake bay oyster
boat, and tells story of brutality, priva-
ton. and even indirect murder He was
released through the efforts OF the Phila-
delphia and Baltimore detective depart
ments. and reached home yesterday after
escaping the clutches of three ''crimps"
who attacked him on Light street In an
attempt TO Mduap him again. but he fought
them of and managed to elude them. al
went to Baltimore on September 49," said
Horre. 'in order to get work In the press
room of a Baltimore paper but falling to
find the man I was looking for within the
next two days. my money gave out, and
going to shipping firm there, Bremen Il
McDougai, $50 Light street. I asked for
work.
"A representative Of the firm told me he
could give me work on the Eastern Shore
at 1T CHUNG corn Tor 81 per day. and ! told
MN would be glad to have It. With that
ne gave me pint OF whiskey and charged
me % cents for 1t, to be paid out Of my
wages.
Il don't drink. but a colored fellow who
was with me and who was booked for the
imaginary cornfeid took taste Of It and
said 1t was nothing but cayenne pepper and
water. threw it On the middle Of Light
street.
Useless to Disobey Orders.
We were then put aboard steamer
named The Virginia, and the next morning
at 1 o'clock we landed at a place thirty
miles from Cambridge, Md As we stepped
out on the pier, which was about 400 feet
long, we were met by three men, who told
US 10 get aboard a batteau named the
Mary A. Tyler, which laid at the pier.
we Teanzed then that we had been
hldhaped and the manner of the men who
ofoered us TO get on the boat plainly In
olcated that 1t was useless to dlsobey.
.. o.Ne coid weather set in I have seen
the me Ice SIX inches thick on board the bat
teau The crew suffered terribly Int the
captain who had three of his grown sons
on BOARD with us drove us to our work and
kept us there although We nearly froze.
ne always had shovel or hand spike in
ms hands ready to strike us He fold rs
ne would do 1t, and one day he str,,cl an
Itailan down. and famed him so that he
SIMPLY could not work any more, so he
put MIN ashore with only money enough to
pay his fare to Baltimore
We bore It as long as ve could o,d
.he coiored fellow and I planned to get
away but our attempt failed.
one night while we were shipping oys-
ters In Minnicks Creek. a fight took nIsna
on boat lying on her port side Soon
saw a man jump overheard and strike our
Tor the shore. He was trying To escana
from the sioop. and when he had swan
several hundred yards he began to cali for
he drowned --itii anu
,foilowing the complaint Of Rudolph
Ilorre. aged seventeen years, against the
treatment he received at the hands ~ POI
timore oyster boat agents. the hoard op
CITY trusts OF that city, on behalf of the
Ivy Is making thorough investigation
INTO INTO me case with the intent of prosecute
ing the agents who the boy saws forcad
MIN aboard an oyster dredge and held him
prisoner for two months. Horre was for
merry an inmate of Girard College ond
nas only been out of the institution short
time, 1t being necessary for him 10 leavo
the college and seek employment In srns
port his mother
II was due to efforts of members OF tho
board of city trusts that he gained his lib
erty from the oyster boat His case was
Drought before the notice OF officials or
GlIard College, who notified the United
states commissioner at Washington that
the iad was being held a prisoner aboa I'd
chesapeake bay oyster boat
When the captain of the boat learned
Ihat the government authorities were in
terested In young Horre he sent the lad
ashore on an island, from where he made
MS way by boat to Baltimore He ratI,rDe5
TO Philadelphia Thursday last Horre went
10 Baltimore In September to seek emnIoy-
ment and was seized by an oyster boat
agent. Inc young man says he witnessed
All sorts of hrutalities, and even saw a
man jump overheard from dredge and
crown, no attempt to rescue him being
made On arriving In Baltimore Horre
says that an attempt was made by three
crlmps to ship him over again, but he
managed to elude them.
The Philadelphia police department is st1ll
continuing an investigation into the allie
cations That policemen of the De Lancey
Stereet station were implicated with
Grimps IN securing men to be shipped to
Chesapeake bay oyster boats
another complaint against shipping
agent IN Philadelphia who is accused Of
shanghaing was made yesterday at police
Headquarters by William Washington of
De Laneey street above 9th street Wash
ington has just returned after a two
month stay with the Chesapeake bay oys-
Ter neet. According to his story he was
kidnapped bodily, taken to Baltimore, where
he was sent aboard an oyster dredge lie
stated that he suffered all sorts of bru-
talitieS and was defrauded out OF his
money. warrant for the arrest OF the
man who took Washington from this CITY
will be issued today through the detective
department