New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-01-21
DENY CAPTAINS STORY.
BL4CKN4TL, SAY P4RkERS
Threatening Letter Written 6y
Cardiff about Burning OF Hacht.

Cardiff about burning OF 0C''''
Charges are now being made by couhsei lol
Dr. and Mrs. Charles Thorndyke Parker that
CAPTAIN James Cardif's story that he was hired
to burn the yacht Scythian is the execution
of an attempt to blackmail the Parkers' IN
proof Of this they show a letter threatening III
and Mrs. Parker soon after the burning OF the
yacht. This letter identified by captain
Cardiff and read to the jury at the trlal on
Friday Of the suit brought by the LiVerpooi anu
London and Globe Insurance Company 10 re-
cover 81 900 of the insurance money paid 10 Mrs'
Parker.
It was also denied by Mrs. Parker's counsel
that Mrs Parker had behaved in any unseenly
manner when Captain Cardiff was delivering
his testimony on Friday. 1t was reported that
the court had called Mrs. Parker to order. but
her counsel says that the judges gavel mas not
beer used once thus far in the trial. Ihe letter
on which the statement that Captain Cardin
tried to extert $4,000 from the Parkers is
based is postmarked November II. 1913 and
reads:
Brooklyn Isg T :5cns4a 1{..,
Beautiful Now Dr. few words is enough t Elf, First
Because I wrote you You got it in n. H. or it
would have been returned to me. Now you prom,
the s sRq sIsef reused oo from you because
knew just what was doing; would not take l.
You always thought that set fire to the scythan;
would not keep Your word You promised me work
for life and SIS go dollars in your VII %a s yog
o o TO the c8q qeake 9y hhg VAS on Doc
tor and you'd d no. 6soH mat 70 P yo1 or herself dis
charged me it would be Low, Down. Dirty tr at5
So b don't Raye o say yo so Ts NaEe thousand
dollars cash for the asking know TINS IS sFne.
pTacticay making fortune for ySg 10Y h have
Tie drfy rrir ever
settled. Do imagine that am f9oi; ss1 T W5i
have discharged Hutchins. It don't matter to me:
You have Robert. Nagle. Simon: Lynn 60 all OF
poor YOU cant pay me The end of this month you
owe me waf that RnoW yo sn' are doing
some som WI lying know You have lost money; But
Every man you have decided to keep are strong
abe men able to earn nt e nT get e position or
help me get one. this shows me how contempuoie
you can be. Doctor, will get square and good
The Insurance Co. offered Herbert g 900 for any
he knew 'i nothing they to d ssge
times the day previous to our row 'h et HHg Know
That held the cards 7 knew you would use
me dTy H5t % Bg 9g h hape but not just
eced now you will dg get dirt IN b Pen5 nan hat
set fire to the scythian can lay my hands on !. any ny
time am so5 for him as yo he MESS MES 70 san save
him am all right. I have the goods to sell L
s This S Tuesday noon will notify Mr. Fillmore or
Wilcox next Friday noon of what am gong 20 ~
saturday will mail few letters to YOUR relations
Father Brother and Mrs. Goodhue full story Of
s hag sso dfp H 9 write to Mrs Parkers relations
doing the same thing viii use means InaE me ne
WIN where his lead and cannon went: l
will mail and Mrs Parker P3s stas s1fdsnee SO
as they can be read. 1 will sign my name 10 each
ai Monday viii make full statement at JoGDs9 S.
Higgins office prevoqSiy SETTING Te g PeePP ap 0T
Those are no threats. don't Ike Snug Haroor
not going there nave r wTg and collars for
You You have dlsharded me without paving me
w WAS you You 9" Know me Wien get started
ready there will be no let up There is no use IN
am selling my furniture and m9ving to Jersey
moved Where I am known under assumed NAME
You need not Try 70 wr6f 7 me FT f6s Inc
DR. and Mrs Parker are staying at the Hotel
Manhattan. Dr. Parker in telling how Captain
Cardiff came into his employ, said:
IT first met Captain Cardiff when I was a
surgeon at the Hudson Street Hospital He was
there with his leg crushed from the knee to
the ankle I worked over him for several days
and thought that I had saved his leg. but sub
sequently it was amputated at the New-York
Hospital. I tried to get him a job, but seaman
without leg is not much use and had no
success When we found no would employ
him we hired him ourselves. There were several
trying circumstances while he was in our en-
ploy
When we returned from Dublin in 1902 we
found that Mrs. ParkeTs fortune had disap
peared We at once began suit against the
brokers who had been handling her money. One
of the members of the firm is a relative of
high official Of the insurance company.
Il wish to deny emphatically that 1 ever
entered into any contract with Captain Cardiff
for him to burn the Scythian."
Had ii not been for the statute of limitations
when Captain Cardiff declared the stand that
he fred the Scythian he would have made him
self liable to the death penalty for setting fire
to the steam yacht the high seas. Had it
not been destroyed he would have been liable to
imprisonment for not less than three years
for than ten years.