The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-04-10

The piracy Of the schooner Lady in
this harbor and her wreck on the reef
at waianae has had a very striking
counterpart in the South Seas. While
the two cases were not identical in all
particulars they have many striking
Resemblance.
On January Is Captain Malcolm Of
the trading schooner Laurel. while ly-
ing in the Apamama lagoon. Gilbert
Islands. saw at some distance away the
mas:s of fore and aft schooner. From
her position he concluded that she was
either stranded or anchored to prevent
her going on the shore. she being on
the windward side of the coast. With
his engineer he went in his launch and
found the vessel a schooner yacht of
about 12O tons. American built, hard
and fast on the reef. The only persons
on her were two men who gave their
names as ]. Taylor of Manchester.
aged twenty-four. and G. Jackson OF
London. aged nineteen. They were very
reticent in answering questions. They
said they were from Valparaiso. and
/ intended TO go to Tahiti. They had no
register for their vessel and no clear
ance papers. and there was no name
on their craft. In response to inquiries
they said they had bought the schooner
in Valparaiso from a Mr.. Ushley who
had declined to turn over to them her
registry. They said she had formerly
been called the Puelche but that they
had intended 10 call her the. White
Rose. They were in complete ignor-
ance of their Whereabouts. Captain
Malcolm offered them any assistance
they might need. but they said they
did not need any.
The next day they came over to Cap
tain Malcolm who was getting ready
to sail, and asked him to take them
aboard. The native magistrate, how
ever. in the meanwhile had warned
Captain Malcolm not to have anything
to do with them as he did not believe
everything was right.
BY the last mail from Australia
comes the sequel of this story of mys-
terry brought TO Fiji by the Laurel
The two men, Taylor and Jackson,
had been taken into custody by the
native magistrateswho had also taken
charge of the wrecked schooner. The
men were sent by one Of Burns. Philip
& Cos. trading vessels. the L. ]. Ken
ney to Tarawa. the seat of govern
ment of the Gilbert Islands. on the
voyage TO Tarawa, Jackson, the young
er man, got communicative and told the
cook of the l. ]. Kenney that the
schooner was the Neuvre Tigre sailing
under the italian flag and engaged in
the coasting trade out of Callao, Peru.
The two men were shipped on the
schooner at Callao, Jackson as a sea-
the name of Mortimer. as cook They
sailed from Callao with a load of coke.
When out about fourteen miles, Taylor,
the cook, made a murderous attack on
the mate who was attending to some
thing in the rigging, striking him with
a Ratchet aimed at his head but strik-
ing the arm and inflicting an awful
wound. The mate grappled with Tay-
or. but finding himself unable with his
wounded arm 10 overpower the cook,
made a dash for the rigging and was
able to get out of reach of his assail-
ant. The connection had brought the
captain to deck and he was instantly
assaulted by the murderous cook and
was knocked down unconscious by a
blow from the Ratchet. The cook then
went to his bunk and got a rifle which
he had hidden there, apparently as a
part of the plan he was carrying out
With the rifle he compelled the mate
to jump overheard. The mate started
to SWIM, for the shore but was prob
ably unable TO. BY this time the cap
tain had recovered consciousness, and
he was compelled by the cook to walk
the plank. The cook was now in full
control of the vessel He gave Jackson
the alternative of 70 blowing the captain
and mate into the sea or of becoming
an accOmplice. saying that they would
call the vessel the White Rose. sail her
to Australia and sell her there. The
two men had known each other for
some time, having enlisted in Liver
pool on Gillian man-Of-war and
/ deserted after reaching Valparaiso.
/ The cargo Of coke was jettis0ned and.
/ the name of the vessel erased. Neither
man knew much about navigation and
they only sailed before the wind Thev
had little idea whore they were and
=eem to have run full on the windward
side OF the Island Of Aramama Of the
Gilbert group.
At Yarawa the two men were handed
I over to the British authorities and were
TO be sent TO Fiji to Sir Edward i'm
Thurn, the British High Commissioner
for the Western Pacific. It seems prob
able that the Peruvian authorities will
be notified and the two men sent to
Callao for trial
The Maritime Register in the last
number received here notes the wreck
! of the schooner in the Gilbert Islands.
but is unable to give its name or flag
or any particulars farther than those
first brought to Fiji by Captain Nal
colin.