The Lamar register., 1910-06-01

IN the inning OF his coat, an envelope. until then
ced. Its four one-hundreddoliar bills
lis note;
Irvington. Oct. IT.
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PETER SHERMAN.
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 seven thousand miles and kill
the sailortown kings. What spasm Of virtue caused
them to give him back his money he 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
ashore in some foreign land. Consuls in foreign
ports could not libel ships detain captains
their unsupported word. The ships papers were
always straight. at any rate the face of them.
The most that could be done report the
the other side Of the earth never heard even
echo of It, The witnesses against them scat
tered the seven seas and prosecution could
not touch them.
The United States district attorney and his stan
did their best to keep the Shermans within the
ter. at least of the shipping laws but they had
hard shedding. In one case the kings were indicted
Charlie Marsden. the star witness for the prosecu-
tion. was locked up in jail for safekeeping Charlie
Marsden disappeared. The taller told a 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 n ship Just as she
sailed. When released at sea, he told that
he had been regularly shipped and 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 Irvington
his story awakened interest and prosecutions
were begun The Sherman boys had well-paid
lawyers who dragged out the cases with adjourn.
ments and legal tangles. Irvington too busy
to be long excited over the wrongs of few sail
ors. Prosecution faltered and patered along its
usual dismal way, and what at last brought the
saiortown kings up with round the
united public opinion of 1ryington directed against
them.
lrvngton suddenly walked up to find itself a blot
on the map. Unexplained dead men good
advertisement for any town: neither mysteri-
be desired If their friends make fuss about them.
Captains who refused to be held up for extrava-
giant blood money, and to play villain small
profit, avoided the port Business falling off.
Upper Irvington was hit where it lived and the
Sherman boys were notified quit.
The kings of saiortown have abdicated. Steam
vessels make voyages short that advance
notes" no longer prizes. Seamens unions
have given a measure of protection to deep
water sailors. who seem to have fewer rights and
more hardships than most men. The bullying cap
tain, the buckle 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-
zens was the wrath of upper Irvington. When It
hit in its poc4ukt and its self upr
Get the kingdom Of the saiortown tyrants.
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