Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-11
Seventeen Year Old College
Youth Tells Thrilling Story.
BRUTALITY AND CRIME
Desperate Methods Of Securing Help
on Chesapeake Bay vessels-worse
Than servitude.

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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 a Chesapeake bay oyster
boat, and tells a story of brutality, priva-
ton. ard 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 OFT and managed to etade them. II
went to Baltimore on September 49, said
Horre. in order to get work in the press
room of Baltimore paper. but failing to
md the man was looking for within the
next two days. my money gave out, and
going to a shipping firm there, Bremen Il
work.
a representative of the firm told me he
could give me work on the Eastern Shore
at cutting corn for 81 per day, and told
him 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.
7 don't drink, but a colored fellow who
was with me and who was booked for the
imaginary cornfleld took q lasts OF 1t and
SAID II was nothing but cayenne pepper and
water. threw It IN the middle of Light
street.
Useless to Disobsy Orders.
We were then put aboard steamer
named The Virginia. and the next morning
at o'clock we landed at a place thirty
miles from Cambridge Nd. As we stepped
out on the pier. which was about 400 feet
long, we were met by three men, who told
US 70 get aboard batteau named the
mary A. Tyler, which laid at the pier.
we realized then that we had heen
Adnaped and the manner OF the men who
oIoefed us TO get on the boat plainly in
oicaaed that 1t was useless to disobey.
since cold weather set in I have seen
the Ice six inches thick on board the hat
teau. The crew suffered terribly. but 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 frozt.
He always had q shovel or hand snijSe In
ms hands ready to strike us. He told MS
ne would do It, and one day he struck a =
l Ean, down and famed. him SO that he
put him ashore with only money enough 70
pay his fare to Baltimore.
i, We pore IL as long as we could and
the coiored fellow and planned to get
away. but our attempt failed.
One night while we were ss,irnjns. ave-
lers IN M1nnicks Creek. fight took place
on boat lying on her port side Soon i
s sa q man jump overheard and strike out
Tor the shore. He was irving to esco NJ
from the sloop, and when he had swa Z,
severai hundred yards he began to cali for
neips they would not let us 20 to him ana
he drowned "A~
Following the complaint Of Ruda,nh
Rorre, aged seventeen years. arajnst tha
treatment he received at the hands Of Raj
tlnore oyster boat: agents. the board nr
CITY CITY trusts Of that city. ON behalf Of the
noy, Is making a thorough Investigation
INTO the case with the intent Of nroaac,,t.
ins the agents who the boy says forced
MN ABOARD an oyster dredge and held him
q prisoner Tor two months. Horre was for
merry an inmate of Girard College ana
mas only been out of the institution q short
. tine. Il being necessary for him to leave
the college and seek employment to SIM
port his mother
II was due to efforts Of members of tho
board of city trusts that he gained hia I'M
erty from the oyster boat His case was
brought before the notice Of Officials Of
3iIaro College, who notified the United
states commissioner at Washington thai
the lad was being held a prisoner aboa I'd
chesapeake bay oyster boat
When the captain OF the boat learned
.nat inc government authorities were in
terested In young Horre he sent fba LAD
ashore on an island, from where he Inaae
his way by boat to Baltimore He returned
TO Philadelphia Thursday last iHorra went
10 Baltimore In September to seek employ
lnent and was seized by an oyster bosf
agent The young man SAYS he Witnessed
ali sorts of brutalities, and even saw q
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
cramps to ship him over again bI,t he
managed to elude them.
The Philadelphia police department is sill,
continuing an investigation into the allie
cations that policemen of the De Lancey
stereet station were implicated with
crimps In securing men to be shipped to
Chesapeake bay oyster boats.
another complaint against a shipping
agent in Philadelphia who is accused Of
shanghaing was made yesterday at police
headquarters by William Washington of
De Lancey street. above 9th street. WASH
ington has just returned after a two
month stay with the Chesapeake bay oys-
ter fleet. According to his story, he was
kidnapped bodily. taken to Baltimore. where
he was sent aboard an oyster dredge He
stated that he suffered sall sorts OF br,,
talties and was defrauded out Of his
money. warrant for the arrest of the
man who took Washington from this city
VIII be issued today through the detective
department..