The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-06
THE|RDREAMENDs.
IN BRAZIL||A'N,J||A||l
Two Of Nine Filibusters Retu1
After Disastrous Attempt 4
to Start Revolution.
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TRY TO CAPTURE a tow
$4,000
Mounted Police Were Waitirl
for Them, Though, and
Gathered in Band.
TRY TO CAPTURE A tow

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NEW YORK. January 5.--After 81
tempting to capture a Brazilian tov1
and serving term In Jail u thei
Samuel r. Parker and Hubert q. Ki
caid, two young men out OF the nj
who went to Brazil to start revolt
ton for Nagalli, the filibusterer,
November, 1907. returned yesterday
the Lamport & Holt liner Verdi.
men looked as if they had slept 1ittl
and eaten less.
Their clothes hung about them. a
theid faces were drawn and sallca
from the hardships they had goa
through since they left New Yor|
There was no one to welcome the]
at the Lamport & Holt pier in Brood
Ign except the immigration inspectt
from Ellis Island, who said:
II hear that you two men we
tried for manslaughter down undet
as sailors call the southern seas.
Yes replied Parker, as he and III
Kincaid, shivered In 81
cold wind under the lee Of the cot
panion leading to the second cabi
and for every other crime In I'll
criminal code In Brazil. II there
one Judge we did not meet there
our stay / should like to know 1t" al
Both men said they wished to
to Moose Jaw, in the Canadian NortI
west, and they were permitted to lar|
In october. 1907. Parker, who livl
in Murray Hill, and kincaid who WI
in Moose Jaw saw the advertisement
which had been put in various pape1
saying that good shots who could ri
well and were not afraid OF rOugfliil
it should apply to the Address Civ
in the newspaper. They had an
terview with Magalli and with sew
other young men sailed for Bah
Brazil. November 4. 1907. on
steamship Byron. The leader of q
enterprise had agreed to pay, each m
SO per day with rations and give cal
man /, 1000 acres Of rich land IL tho pin
to defeat the government succeed1
All the adventurers received wei
hard knocks. bullets and bad food
While in Brazil the reyoiutiontsX
fed on parrots, which they stewed
DAYS to make them tender, nonEefi
and wild plantains. which they bakS
in the ashes for bread. There was n
much romance i1 the ftibustertt
business. they said. The nine vi
sailed from New York We're not
only revolutionists, according
Magalli. There were thousands
strong men, fully armed and prepaid
to die for the cause, the leader ii
them. Parker and ISincaid. with TIL,
seven comrades. never saw this arr{
Clad in Khaki uniforms. armed wi
Mauser rifles. and mounted on stun
ponies bred in the Andes. which We
waiting for them on the arrival OF
Byron at Bahia. the nine men chara,
down on the public square Of the to-
of Athens and were captured by Il
mounted police after one man I
fallen on each side. In descrlblI
their adventures yesterday IarR1
said:
ave lost one man. George Cord
in the attack on the town square. q
then we had to retreat up the ra1lro
tracks, cutting the telegraph wires
we went so that the police could NJ
head us off. II
police, and their steady firing caua)
us to retire. 1t was dignified q
treat, but not too slow. We coyea
sixty miles in two days.
..Tired out and hungry, We " s
captured and clapped into jail.
had TO share a room with thirty otif
prisoners that was only 70 E1etts toy
and there we stayed until last
vember.. n s e III III
"The Brazilian governmen mt schares
us with all sorts Of crimes, but WI
they wanted to know most OF al 81
the name of those who had brous
us down there. That we did
fdivulge. Gordon. the one of The e. ny = !
who was wounded In the brief actf
at Athens. died before his trial.
had served through the Boer War
the seaforth Highlanders. George WI
is the only one now left in jail
BRAZIL m 1
Asked what had become OF
leader, Magalli. in the course rise OF y
defeat Of the revolutionists.sla I'arAa
said: "IIe's down there some W WI,
in a madhouse. and may have bef
crazy before he started.
He added that the State Depa}
ment had done good deal to
them released. and that The En- glls
men in Brazil had also been very =
to them,
NEW CHURCH BUILDING.
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