Arizona republican., 1908-08-17
Liquor LoOsened Tongue of
 One Sea Dog
They Jumped at Frisco one From the Panther, the
 Other From the Alabama.

cushions from Mesa. They give their ! names as Jack Morgan and Harry | Spence, the seagoing Kid and it now turns out that they are deserters from
 the Fleet which they dumped" at | Frisco after the long cruise from the | Atlantic round the Horn.
 Marshal Moore as soon as he learn
 ed that they had been aboard naval vessels telegraphed Los Angeles au
 thorities, and Lieutenant GruSer, but
 in answer a message came that he was
 out of the city. The marshal then tel egraphed to Mare Island, but up to
 late last night no word had been re-
 ceived. It is thought that a reply will
 come today. At least the stragglers will be held for a few days pending further investigation.
 When the young men arrived in Phoenix the marshal spotted them as having no visible means of support,
 and asked them to go to work. Morgan
 obtained work at the Phoenix Bakery,
 and the Kid at Souls Fruit market. and they pursued the even tenor of well behaved young mems ways, till | Friday, when Morgan partook a little
 too freely of the cup which puts many
 an able ;,odicd beachcomber out of
 commission
 He was taken to the city hall. Mar | sral Moore gave the uSIfal inspection and found tattoo of a sailor 1n his right fCre&rnI. He asked him if he
 was not q saiior and Morgan replied hat he had Teen. The marshal asked for his discharge and got the reply
 that he did not get big ticket" but had jumped. ILis revelation that ne
 HaS dcscr.rr came whi,e he was stIll
 TncoT llc infl; cree of iiqI5r
 The marshal remembered his friend,
 the Kid, and from outside information learned she was also a deserter from
 the navy. Spence was taken in tow
 the same day and the matter was guarded very carefully for special req sons, the officers not wishing the facts
 to get into the newspapers. A Bepub- | lican reporter learned of their arrest and called at the jail Saturday and again yesterday. To a landlubber the sailors lingo that they talk is only half
 intclligible. it's neither American. Down
 East Yankee, Bowery or baseball slang. Its just of the sea.
 Morgan has deserted twice and shipped over. The first time he was on the Iowa, till she was put out of commission and went in dry dock When the Iowa reached New York he ducked, travelling west, making knots as sast as he could, till his cruise brought him up to Portland, where he cast anchor. Morgan says he didn't remain there long for they caught him and took him back to the prison and from there tn the boat Handbook at Boston where he did time till his sen tence was out. When his first enlist ment was out he shipped over on the Panther, a floating machine shop, which accompanied the Pacific fleet. Morgan is a baker by trade and this
 was the service he did on the ship. Bakers he said were hard to get and when the fleet started out they were Ianxiously looking for men, so in spite
 of his former slips he got through all right. The board was fine, they serv-
 ed mo canned Willies,' said Morgan,
 on the long cruise, and he was able to
 get on shore at several ports without consent of the officers and see some of
 the foreign places. Of course it would not take a sea lawyer to tell him he
 would be put in irons for it, but he
 thought he ought to gaze about as
 he might not come that way soon again. On account of his previous de-
 sertion he was not to be allowed shore
 leave for three months. The trip was a pretty tough one Ypekally through
 the straits of Magellan where they had sixteen hour watches and it was rath- CT cold.
 When Morgan reached Frisco he de-
 cided he didn't like the officers and was ready to quit. The Kid also was of the same mind. Spence is the
 youngers of the two. perhaps about 21
 years of age, of small build. He has
 been about some in his brief span. He
 makes no denial now of his having been a rookie. though before Marshal
 Moore threatened him with the sweat
 box process, he would not anWer question except evasively.
 q enlisted August '. 1906," said Spence to the reporter. First I was on
 the Kansas, then on the Iowa, and lastly on the Alabama, before I got into
 this stone frigate. First I went as sea
 man and after several months I was rated up to coXwain. Later I went to
  got drunk and was busted to seaman again.
 Where did we get the liquor? oh, we had coffee royals. The coffee roy als we had were made out of alcohol.
 Late at night when we were supposed
 to be in our hunks, we got the ships painters to get Q bottle of the stuff and
 we made coffee and put in the alcohol which made a fine drink. For that got busted. I was also put in irons and fed on bread and water and set back four months pay"
 Both prisoners seem to take their arrest nonchalantly. They say they probably have been "breaking it' as long as they could and will now be
 run up'' for their offense. Still it is possible that the authorities do not want them very bad and that the mar
 shal may receive word to turn them loose.
 The penalty says Morgan, who ought