The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-11-15
PIRATE SLOOFS CAPTURED
Boats Laden With Stolen Goods Held
at Newport, f. |.
Supposed Key to the Wholesale Robberies
Along the Sound Discovered-ManJ
vaIuables Were Pawned.

Newport, K. lime Si0OpS 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 lootlngs
Of summer mansions Oh the Connect
cut shore.
On board the Dorodo was found a
large supply of dynamite and a big
bottle Of c%hloroform. There was
found also silver plated ware, bric-a-
brac. several new flags, some pictures,
articles of linen marked Julia NJ.
Wood and Mrs. H. r. Tool" and as
a further evidence Of plumber, many
pawntickets for a great variety of valu-
ables. The Bessie had also on board
a great quantity Of stolen goods.
From the revelations contained in q
bill of sale found on the Dorodo. the
police are now looking for Henry A.
Jackson, supposed to be q Taunton
youth with a bad record, and not, as
was at first declared by some magma
tive investigators, Ensign Jackson. Of
the Missouri, erStwhile deserter. The
bill Of sale indicates that at st. Helena,
Md, on December 16. 1904, the Dorodo
had been sold for $50 by L. X. Olise
to Henry A. Jackson.
The Bessie is believed to be the prop
erty Of C. f. Burlingame, of Provi-
dence, from whom she was stolen.
1t was made plain by the movements
Of the two sioops that the men on each
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 this
city, reported TO tie county authorities
that his naphtha launch had been
stolen. He was able to give Il descrip-
ton Of a strange craft seen about his
anchorage.
The Dorodo, which answered the de-
scription Of the strange sloop, was
observed by two deputy sherifs to en-
ter the bay here. Made fast to her
with q long painter was q naphtha
launch. The deputies set out in a
rowboat to the sloop, but on approach
ing it, several men. armed with rifles,
appeared and made threatening demon.
STATIONS. The deputies, who were un-
armed, discreetly rowed ashore to pro-
cure arms.
An hour later, when they again ap-
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 OH their capture,
which included the naphtha launch.
another sloop 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 Dorodo,
and seeing strangers aboard her, evil
IDENTIFY 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.
1t was learned that the men on the
Dorodo made for jamestown in q row.
boat, from which point they had not
been traced. There was no trace OF
the other pirate crew. The two sloops
a..e being held, while the plumber found
on board has been brought ashore to be
booked 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, has been issued on a charge OF
STEALING thn 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 Dorodo 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
6. ard was part owner of the sioop.
He was identified by Deputy Sheriff
Harvey as the man aboard the catboat
Bessie, stolen from Charles /. Burlin-
game. Of Providence. :
Steifel protests that he never helped
Jackson steal anything. md never
stole anything himself. He said:
II have believed. on a number Of &C.
casions, that Jackson drugged me or
administered chloroform. and that
while I slept off its effects he went
plundering yachts near which he would
tie up in the Sound or in Narragansett
Bay. 1 know that I would wake up at
10 or II o'clock the next morning with
an aching head that wasn't due to
drinking anything, and the soop
would be miles away from where we
had anchored when l turned IN the
night before"
Steifel informed the police that
Jackson had come aboard one night at
Greenwich. Conn.,. with a SHIT case
and. after that, had exhibited a vaiua.
BILE gold watch. He told OF stopping AZ
other places. but denied that he mao
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