The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1905-06-23
MANGA REVA
A HARD ship

From Wednesdays Advertiser)
The Manga Reva must have been
something of a hell ship, if all tales
are true. The matter developed in a
hearing before United States District
Court Commissioner Mailing yesterday
of charges preferred by seamen against
First Mate Herbert E. Jones and Sec
ond Mate Joseph Boyd of assaulting
seamen on the high seas. The men
were both held. to answer, with bail
fixed at $1,000 in each case.
And Boyd, it seems, has been in
trouble of the like sort before, having
been accused OF assaulting a seaman
the last time he was in this port. But
for some reason the charge against him
was not pressed. This time, it is diff
ferent.
There has been trouble on the Man
ga Reva ever since she has been on this
beach. Now, just as she is ready to-
clear for the Delaware Breakwater
with cargo of sugar, the matter cul-
inmates, and she loses half dozen of
her crew and two of her officers must
be here to answer at the October term
of the Federal Court. The half dozen
seamen who have left the ship gave
their testimony before Commissioner
Mailing yesterday. 1t was much alike.
/ all of it. j. Garcia, who said he was
an ordinary seaman, but not sailor,
told how he had been struck with a
billet of wood by BOYD, the second
mate, and prodded with Delaying pin
and hit across the chest with an iron
bar.
I After he had told his story, First
Mate Jones took him in hand and was
starting to thunder questions at him
in the regulation quarterback voice..
when District Attorney Breckons in
terrupted him:
"Hold on, there; do not try any in
timidation here. Ask your questions
in an ordinary tone, and he will answer
you.'
And, after all, it only developed that
Garcia was sick, probably when he
| shipped He looked sick enough. And
that he was an ordinary, not an able
seaman.
Theu a well educated Norwegian.
named johnson, took the stand and re-
vealed the interesting facts that he
was worker in wood and had shipped
as sailor despite the fact that he had
a wooden leg.
"And never heard of sailor with
n wooden Leg said First Mate JONES'.
with some disgust.
johnson had been asked to go up on
the poopdeck, by the first mate, and
had asked in turn what was wanted.
"Just come up to oblige me-" the
| mate answered.
"Not unless there is a reason for
it," replied the sailor.
The first mate called the second
mate to compel Johnson to obey orders,
and according to the sailors tale.
Boyd struck him and kicked him and
finally backed him up against the rail
and tried to twist his right arm out Of
its socket. Then the crew came and
carried him to the poop. The man ad-
mitted that he was not seaman, and
that he had refused to obey that par
ticular order. Also, he said that both
mates were constantly under the influ
ence of liquor while he was on the ship.
| Most of the men said this.
Then First Mate Jones took the
stand, and denied everything the men
had said, excepting that johnson had
refused to obey an order. Coaxed along
| by Mr.. Breckons, he admitted that the
second mate had pulled johnson s nose,
and that he might have showed the men
gently along with Delaying pin, just
to help them pull the ropes and work
the ship. Whatever Boyd had done,
had been by his order.
Boyd, the more clever of the two
mates, declined to take the stand or to
make any statement, and then Com
missioner Mailing bound the two de-
PENDANTS over to appear at the Octo-
ber term of court. The sailors who
bring the charges of cruelty have all
left the Manga Reva.