Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-29
SEEK PIRATE CRAFT
England May Send Warship
After the G0IdSboro.
NOTICE TO u. S. CONSULS
All Southern Ports to Be Watched
for the Mysterious Vessel.
VALUABLE GOODS ON BOARD
American Manufacturers and Mer-
chants Claim to Have Been Rob-
bed-Ship Is an Outlaw.

NEW YORK. May 29.-Nothing will be
left undone TO capture the steamship
Goldsboro. which. it is charged. is mas
querading in new paint. and doubtless
under another name somewhere in south
Atlantic waters. is freighted deep with
costly merchandise for which American
manufacturers have not been paid, and is
carrying F. c. Bailey. president of the
defunct Export Shipping Company of
No II Broadway.
Arrangements were completed yesterday
to detain the steamer at any port where
she may touch. Every American consul
has been instructed by cable to this end
and in the event of her escape through
legal complications the English govern
ment. it is declared. will send a warship
to trail and capture the vessel England's
interest in the case arises from the fact
that the Goldshoro was falsely registered
as a British ship with a British capt ain
1t was discovered that the Goldsboro's
captain was an American. That led to
the revocation of her registry May T.
two days after her departure from New
York
The American manufacturers and mer-
chants who claim to have been robbed
are eager TO take part in the chase. The
Merchants Association will meet today
at No 11o Broadway to consider plans
of action.
Ships License Revoked.
With the revocation of her license"
said A Parker Nevin counsel of the as
sociation. at No. 40 Broadway 1.-The
steamship Goldsboro is little more than
a pirate craft. Many of our men here
heneve that the ship should be captured
at all cost We know that Bailey is
aboard of her with the merchandise.
There is good reason to believe that his
brother and partner is with him and that
three women are their companions
I.ampere Fried * Czaki. counsel for
Receiver Boise. wera in consultation yes
terdav with the United States district at
torney. They had been to Washington.
and the Attorney General had pledged
them The departments aid. But until it
is proved that III" Export Shipping Com
rany made false representations and that
there * no such firm in Queensland as the
General Supply Company the FEDERAL au-
thorities Ii state to act. Sufficient time
has MOI vet elapsed for the return of
drafts tashed by Bailey on the alleged
Queensland concern. nevertheless all of
the LAWYERS in he case and many of the
victims believe. after pFlEate lnVestiga-
Company of TownsVlil"' Queehsiahu' Is
fiction.
II is believed that the value OF cash
and goods on board the Goldsboro is
nearly 500 O3o. Scores of prominent bust
ness concerns are Interested. and until
the LAWYERS complete thes schedule OF
creditors the exact total of claims against
Bailey cannot be determined.
Loss to Merchants.
1T may reach half a million for all we
positively know as yet" said one of the
lawyers.
No list of the firms that have suffered
could be obtained yesterday. but 1t was
learned that Acker, Merrill d Condit ara
out 5000 worth of wines and groceries.
with which the Goldsboro was stocked
for her VOYAGE. John Wanamaker. Saks
& Co and the Tower manufacturing
Company are also among the losers.
The Goldsboro's manifest, say those
who have sen il. re Ids like a catalogue
of some small mechanical exnlpition. IN
Guiding all sorts OF industrial machines,
phonographs. nickel-in-the-slHt devices,
rifles. cheap watches and jewelry.
The story of the Export ohlpping com,
pany. its officers its sudden collapse and
the mystery Of the GoldsDoro reads AAe