The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-07-07

Therefore, I Will conclude with the re-;
lease by saying to II the Commonwealth
that /, Henry Scott, release to the world
as two innocent men,, a rtthur' "a dams and
Robert Sawyer, from the & date Il OF this
reading TO the Common veal t. U The & Com
nonweahh can do Just what t, iliues wi til
them The burden is strictly off my hands
ma HENRY SCOTT.
The Tragedy Itself.
Following the reading Of this state
Sment, Rev. Bennett read the following
statement made by Scott in e escrlptiton
sof the crime Il 5s .if3Si3s6 ,5AE
Il 'vilmi,sE ton. N. q.
M New Hanover County Jail ,,SS
w s5i W q 1906 .isfa
Why Il take the ordered time and ops
lBportunityBgt to inform the world a large
1.-The honest and truthful facts iof and into
this Strag edy-By me, Henry Scott M j;
All The fact Is y tina ts Sawyer, Adan,s nor y
#Coakley VI had thing TO do with the tragic
acknowledgements rightly speak Three
laws az ter: We left Philadelphia for Ca r-
denas,, Cuba, We had trouble Il on board
b,,yS Coakleyf asking for some more to eat
he (C.oakley) d going to the cook at the,
galley. II He cook 81 erred hinli (CoaNley)4
to the Cap tain. Hha cap atnf fly told
him tia We were getting enou e. eat
We'll ..l73 that started y. the Il trouble from
then on. "a The next trouble started WI tn
| SAWYER and the cook one Sunday about:
wa ter. 4 and the cook q ccused him saw
yer) Of taking five buck cts Of .Waterl..is!I q
lSthis sawyer said was q lie The COOK;
called him ack - - SAWYER
called him a white on ana tt1 ete n
going t to fight. but did not.
II a scott had some trou ble ting the the
3ats the wheel, butt tina t. all blew
over. w 8 were getting our allowance acc-
lscording to- the sea- g Sion ana la
Cd ptan told the co ok y tosS COOK
mn for us and that was notherA trouble l9l
q ayl out at sea- We were &c tlng Two Q
buckets OF water for four r. an. ana g on :
gof that we had to cook drink eat y any.
wash every twenty hours s, ana a,iei q g
dnwn-east I trick, he RI (the captain) put
salt water into the fresh just for N ean-,
ness. 50 that we could not drink IT and 1f1
so9 too that he would not h ave to buy
much or. any water In g ba. Why,s5t Of
course. he had fresh wa ter for hl n ~
and officers. a ri 1T.
when we got down to the Bahamas ne
partly sold n OF one-t Of the. snip 3
stores to those people there "a for l:ttie or
nothing such as money. cocoanut5 sfe
sponges and bananas. he captain tam gave
+
Ia 4 on board n but strange to say tn e
he Captain Rumill) could not civ US any
more =, to eat when kley asked him. IN t
he could sell and give away want TO
show to the world that this is q pretty
Zine way to start trouble on a. ship when
trouble is nigh and all res dy. /. ss
s5 ANYWAY we went to e ba- 5i5 We worked
hungry and thirsty in all that hot sun I'M.
| iii we got the coal out and went on 70
Mobile. The name Of that choon1'e,r. In
stead Of the Berwind was the Hell-on-Sea.
tss, / & all When we got to Mobile we
,oaIdd with lum Der for Philad elphia, and
whilst in Mobile. +, Scott. had to eoard
out and dIned with my friends until we
left Mobile, s8 a. SO u
Both the nj ate and cook got drunk and !
I,$with the engineer. had to cook for our
selves, and for the capital n, We also had
ia do the mates and our work, lille they
were In Jail. The captai In rked JUS just
like Il he felt like doing, and IL any one
was about to say nything, the tall was .,
OF putting us In jail or Of sh ootlng Is.
Saon the 25th i Of September we set sail
for home 4 and al ter we sailed DO IN the
mate and the engineer got mad With me.
Mind. & these two officers were the very,
best friends 8 to me on board from the
time we left home, but things had changed
greatly, 81 indeed, 6 To the day Of the
tragedy the mate and the engineer told
me that the captain had conc oted with
the three OF them, that is the ate, en-
glneerb and cook, to- exile I one of B US
forward and as they knew that we would
fight the three would place JUS der ar
rest-t the colored-and as the vessel had
steam they coul d take her into port and
swear that we had refused duty. or In
other words mut.nted, and then jail us
and make us lose all OF our wages for
spite or revenge n ls1 s i9. \ us. .fs5S
Now all Iof this was to happen when the
schooner got up to Cape Hatteras, and
the only man who heard this besides me-
was Coax ley, when the engineer was tell
Ing it to me and SO was The mate, il 35t
5Coakley was the only one who saw me
when II threw the captain overheard.
Scoakley saw all OF the affair from start
to finish, The truth Is that the trouble
did not start about any coffee, Neither
did dams, Sawyer and n Coakley buy
pistols in Mobile. All Of that was my
defense against them, and too, about
the boat that was what 7 was going to
work to eyade the law, but these three
men spoiled my business, Y
How It Started, 81
This is how the tragedy started' on
tha morning Of the 10th OF October, 1907.
sawyer called up C,oakley and me. We
dressed and came UP on deck Coakley
went to relieve Adams at the wheel, and
I (scott) relieved Sawyer on the lookout,
The fact is. Sawyer and Adams were
below when relieved. They were In the
forecastle. Presently the mate called me
ana told me- to saw some wood for the (
engineer, 1t was dark then, SO asked !
the mate II he couldn't let the wood be
until after coffee, The engineer spoke
I'D BY saying that II he was mate he
would make me saw the wood or punch
me, So ii said to- the en- gineer: Instead
OF pushing the mate to punch me- why
don't you punch me yourself
Before the last WORD was out q my \