Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1910-06-10

in the lining of his coat, envelope, until then
ced Its contents were four OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES bills
lis note:
o. ,,. 1rvington Oct II.
aasr 4o for Would we ud @
need ALL oP Be IS m yo get ashore o a p a w
Yours truly;
The friendly faces of Uncle Sans greenbacks
gave him courage. He made plans and acted on
them then and there Meeting that English mate
In the street, he gave him a most artistic beat.
Ing paid a fine, and took the next boat for Lon
don town Incidentally, he forgot all about his de-
sire to travel six thousand miles and kill
the sailortown kings. What spasm of virtue caused
them to give him back his money he never knew.
They were not noted for doing such things.
That the kings continually escaped punish
ment was small wonder The men injured never
had chance to tell their stories until they were
ashore in some foreign land. Consuls In foreign
ports could not libel ships detain captains on
their unsupported word. The ships papers
always straight, at any rate the face of them.
The most that could be done was to report the
and there 1t ended The Sherman bows on
the other side of the earth never heard even an
echo of it. The witnesses against them were scat
tered over the seas and prosecution could
not touch them.
The United States district attorney and his staff
did their best to keep the Shermans within the let
ter, at least, of the shipping laws, but they had
hard shedding. In the kings we're indicted
Charlie Marsden, the star witness for the prosecu-
ton, was locked up in Jail for safekeeping Charlie
Marsden disappeared The jailer told story of
masked men, guns and general confusion but could
identify no one as having taken part in the Jail
delivery. With the witness gone, prosecution halt
ed. Long afterward Charlie Marsden came back
and told a moving tale. He had been bound
gagged and carried aboard ship Just as she
sailed. When released at sea- he was told that
he had been regularly shipped and was led a sorry
life aboard. In foreign ports he appealed in vain
to consuls who showed him his name-forged, of
course-on the ships articles and laughed at him
When he finally worked his way back to Irvington
his story awakened interest and new prosecutions
were begun. The Sherman boys had welI-paid
lawyers who dragged out the with adjourn
ments and legal tangles. Irvington was too busy
to be long excited over the wrongs of few sail
ors. Prosecution fatered and paltered along its
usual dismal way and what at last brought the
sailortown kings up with round turn was the
united public opinion of Irvington directed against
them.
lrvngton suddenly walked up to find itself blot
on the map. Unexplained dead are no good
advertisement for any town: neither are mysteri.
dsappearances of strangers within its gates to
be desired if their friends make fuss about them
Captains who refused to be held up for extrava-
CANT blood money, and to play villain at small
profit, avoided the port Business was falling off
Upper Irvington hit where 1t lived and the
Sherman boys were notified to quit
The kings of saortown have abdicated Steam
vessels make voyages so short that advance
notes" longer prizes Seamen's unions
have given a measure of protection even to deep
water sailors. who seem to have fewer rights and
more hardships than most The bullying cap.
tain, the bucko mate and the boarding master have
all been singed by the feeble and tardy fire of
United States maritime law. The railroads had
their share in the revolution. But what really
caused the Sherman boys to become private citi.
was the wrath of upper Irvington When IL
hit in it's pocket and it's self-esteem-that nm
set the kingdom of the salortown tyrants