The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-22
LUNLTIC STEALS 4 Yacht.
CUTS HER ADRTFT WHILE CAP
TAIN AND CREW SNORE BELOW.

FcrryDOat Police salvage Her ami
Nah q Harmless. BIue Eyed RuSsian
"A second Pirate Had Disappeared.
With her regular skipper and q Grew OF
ten men snoring their heads Oh below decks
and a lunatic commander at the bridge
Evans r. Dicks beautiful III foot steam
yacht Elsa II. narrowly missed being run
down and sent to the bottom Of the East
River very early yesterday morning. The
credit for the escape Of the yacht must De
divided equally between the ebb tide and
ROundsman John Stanton and Patroinan
Gallagher Of the East Twcnty-second street
station. Even the policemen admit that
the tide helped. but II you ask Capt. john
Patton Of the Elsa he merely tugs at hls
mustachs and glowers.
On Thursday evening Mr.. Dick. who isA
banker at 30 Broad street, a member OF the
New York Yacht Club and has q house at
81 East Forty-ninth street, took a party OF
friends for a short cruise down the bay.
The party returned at about IL O'CLOCK
and the Elsa ii. was tied mp for the night
as usual, at the recreation pier at the loot
OF East Twenty-fourth street. Il being a
ane night and everything quiet Capt. Patton
and his crew OF ten men turned In about
half an hour later, with everything made
snug and the fires banked. In Ave minutes
all hands were asleep.
Some three hours later a gentle pirate
came aboard. There was also one assistant
pirate. The chief red rover was Adolphus
Busch, who up to two days ago lived at
s45 Eas Sixtieth street. Adolphus In as
mild a hammered ufian as ever scuttled a
ship. He Is not yet quite IS years old,
Al - o.. - J.. - and a nh mid GQrfnan
blue eye. His assistant bucoaneer, who Is
J still at large, is thus described on the sta
ton house blotter:
Chris -; 30 years old; has brown hair;
il bald; has black eyes; is S feet Z inches
tall and wore gray clothes and a black hat.
The sergeant explained the seeming in
consistency that appears in this statement
by saying that the man had brown hair at
the back OF his head and was bald on top
OF it.
There are no witnesses TO the boarding
Of the Elsa ii. by Adolphus and Chris or
to what was done after she was boarded.
Only this: Al a quarter before 8 o'clock
a man ran up to Patrolmsn Gallagher, who
was standing near the East Twenty-second
street pier.
Say" he shouted. "some t'ieves hal
stole a boat an dey're raisin' the diVvle
out dere.' He waved a hand at the black
ness Of the river. Gallagher squinted into
the dark and then he heard a ships bell
ringing madly near the ferry slip. Rounds
man Stanton came up just then, and the two
policemen managed to make out the dark
form of a yacht drifting in close to shore.
They hammered on the doors OF the pier
shed, routed u a Waterman and ran out
on the Twenty-seCond street pier.
Just then the lights Of the Brooklyn
ferryboat Ohio doomed up. There WI
not a light on the yacht and the ~ferryboat
was heading straight for her. on her way
to the T~wenty-third street slip. The two
policemen raped with their clubs and blew
their whistles.
-Oh, you, Ohio Patrolman Gallagher
a y they shouted. Roundsman stanton
insists that what they really shouted was
Alloy, there, on board the Ohio! Be
that as II may, the Ohio's pilot heard them
and reversed his engines and put his helm
hard over. 1t was just in time. A few
aeconds later and sac, 900 worth Of steam
yacht and it's captain and Grew would
have gone TO the bottom, 10 say nothing
All this time the bell on the bridge OF
the yacht was ringing like mad, but re-
Deateu nAlb ITOD1 tuc pOiSVthSh o'C W
get the slightest verbal response. But
the tide was gradually sweeping the vesse.
in toward the pier and the policemen, waited
anxiously as she drew nearer. She Was
under no control whatever and bobbed
idly about, now advancing, now retreating
hut getting nearer all the time. When
her port rail was three feet away the two
POLICEMEN Ieaped aboar and stared about
them. Not a sound could they hear. not
a face could they see. Suddenly a gentle
voice remarked:
WAS iss?'
Instantly the policemen drew their clubs
and rushed for the bridge. AZ the top oil
the fight OF steps there confronted then
a serene and placid person, very young
very bland. very harmless. Ihe policeman
bounced upon him promptly.
-And then" said Roundsman stanton
-, taking up the tale, Il give him a shake and
, says. ou. L.u.
in this yachtH''
And ne winks at me mysteriously and h
I says; ou,o,h,,. uLo thu,
1t las a wimmens
About that time there was a row down
: stairs -er-below decks-an' about hfteer
men. I should think, come tumblin up on
on TOP Of another, with their eyes stickin
ont of their heads like coffee cups. Capt
Patton was at the head OF the gang, ant
saw. YOU never saw such a scared lot o
foiks in your life. They'd been sounc
asleep for an hou or so, nobody knows hov
long, with that crazy man bangin' the bel
: an 10 wake the dead in the Bellevue Morgul