The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-26

was clouds, and then / saw it was
mountains, and [ thought we. had got
past Hawaii, and would be id Anstra-
la in a couple of days, the waySve was
going, and / twisted it around, some
low, and it took us all day Sunday to
get back to land. And we got back
to land, and / said, We are on an
other island, we are alright; we will
just anchor this ship here and see if
we can't go ashore, and we dropped
the anchor and we began to see some
thing was dragging, and we thought
the chain had broken in half, and just
then it hit the ground.
1.-THE next day-it was Monday
we got some things, couple of pill
lows, and blankets and some biscuits
we was hungry had got over being
seasick then, and we took an awning,
all that is old stuff, other stuff be-
sides that we didn want, and we took
that to protect ourselves from the sun,
no value to the stuff, just TO protect
ourselves from the sun: we wouldn It
take that other stuff; we took it about
two hundred yards from the beach. Of
course, if we had wanted to steal it,
we would have taken stuff that would
pay, but we only took these here-a
little bit-it was too heavy for us to
pack anyway. We had few clothes,
and we took them ashore too, and we
slept there in the night time, rugged
a tent up along the beach about two
hundred yards from the ship.
We had a good time there, had
box of cigars that was on the boat and
had good smoke there, and the next
day them kanaka cops came there,
with guns, and | put my hands up. [
was lying on the ground, and | thought
they wanted to get something; they
went through my pockets and made a
search, they still had the guns on me
they was more scared than us, and
they had guns. Well, sir, they took us
down-away to some town there
where there was what we thought was
a lighthouse but it was sugar chin
ney-and they put as in prison there.
Next morning thew put us on a train
and fetched us down here, sir. -
Mr. Breckons having stated that the
defendant had been known in the Phil
ippine Islands by the name of Dick
Turpin, the court Intercepted him on
this point, and the defendant replied
as follows:
t'You see, sir; after | left England,
sir-my proper name is Stephen smith
when [ got to the States, in Philadel- !
phia, and going to the Philippine |
Islands, that is where | changed my
name, sir; | just changed it because it !
was too common. / changed it to |
Richard Turpin. At the time / Joined |
the ARMY wouldn t join under al
wrong name-so / took the name of |
Stephen Smith, and joined under my
right name, Stephen Smith,
Deusbury made a brief statement, I
dwelling on the claim that their origi- /
nal intention was not to take the
schooner, but having deserted the |
army they had to get away from here,
for their safety, and no sailing ships
they at last took the
schooner
United States District Attorney
Breckons said it seemed to him clear
that there had been larceny from
vessel in distress, as alleged in the in
lictment. He did not think that the
TWO men were criminal in their in
stinets; but that what they had done
was rather in a spirit of adventure than
Of malice.
Mr.. Greenwich made a brief state
nent Judge Dole Immediately sen
fenced them to one month s imprison-
nent each at hard labor. and to pay a
fine of one dollar
The two pirates felt very well salts
led. indeed, at the leniency of their
sentences.
Captain Miller. when he heard of the
sentence, laughed, and said he was sat
SIZED.